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Have Books? Will Sell!

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Many of my clients want to sell their books. Then they send me all of these links to their individual writings, which I then have to integrate into their site. There is an easier way AND it
WILL EARN THE AUTHOR extra CASH!! Amazon Associates is Free!

One of the best ways to sell books is through Amazon. It’s the largest book retailer in the world, both for print and eBooks. If you’re an author who sells books on Amazon, there’s an easy way to pull your Amazon listings into your WordPress website.

If you’re not an author, you can still make money selling Amazon best sellers with an Amazon affiliate account. Amazon calls its affiliate program Amazon Associates, and it’s free to join.

If you’re an author you should also be an Amazon Associate. That way when you link to your book using your affiliate ID, you can get paid twice. For the book sale and the affiliate referral fee on the book sale.

The great thing about the Amazon Associates program is your referral link applies to whatever your referred visitor buys. So if someone follows your book link to Amazon and buys your book and a pair of shoes, you get the referral fee for the book and the shoes.

You’re even paid a referral fee for the shoes if they don’t buy your book.

So whether you’re an author or not, you can sell books on Amazon using your WordPress site. The company will pay dividends.

Then instead of adding links, I can add in a plugin that integrates with Amazon and adds my clients books and any other products they want to sell. Without the plugin however it is cumbersome.

So if you want to sell your books or any other product from a site being hosted here on Praise Worx, email me so that I can get you set up!

Simple Event Plugin with Themify

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The event post plugin that comes with the Pro version of Themify is great for posting and managing events that don’t require a calendar view or other sophisticated features. It does allow for recurring events, which is super! And using the Post Type Builder the page view of the Events can be modified to your liking. (Nope. This is not true. I need to ask for more details about this, but the default Events page does not appear to be accessible. It would have to be built using the PTB. But the event taxonomies are also not available. Better to build your own event type modeled after theirs and have all that.) But the real key missing element is there is no attendees list created.

I think EventPrime will give more bang for zero bucks.

Take a look here.

Blog Summary Links InOp!

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This will be quick because I’m not yet prepared to post on this site, but needed to document this because my small brain will not remember it in the future.

I had a blog summary set up and every time I’d click on one of the blog links, it would return to the home page or give an error. This shouldn’t happen since the page is fully created by WordPress backend. I didn’t do any thing to create the blog layout except set the blog display criteria to All Categories.

Turns out to be the perma links. I had a custom perma link defined to show the categories and since I’m using subcategories, the perma link probably was not set up correctly. But when I switched to a default permalink, now the links from the blog summary worked.

To-Do: Learn how to setup permalinks to use subcategories correctly!!