Couple of quick notes for you:

1. ADPS asks you for your SAS FTP username and password because it has no way of knowing what it is In most cases this is the same as your SAS web login info, but once in awhile this will be different.

2. The FTP error you’re seeing is normally caused when you don’t have FTP access to SAS yet, but in very rare cases it is a hosting problem. Here’s the couple of reasons it can be caused by the host:

– They have PHP FTP turned off
– They have either outgoing or incoming FTP traffic restricted to specific port ranges (usually incoming)

In the first case you simply ask them to turn ftp functionality on. In the second case, they probably restrict incoming traffic so you’ll want to ask them to allow incoming passive FTP connections from datafeeds.shareasale.com

Hope that helps and glad to hear it’s working on the other host!
Kathy

A bit of Googling shows that others also have had this error message - from different scripts and various web hosts.

So maybe I didnt upload in Ascii the first time (because when I deleted it all and started again, the ADPS fields were all autofilled the second time I activated the plugin).

Or maybe I did it right and the problem is a CPanel setting that varies between hosting providers because I use 2 webhosts and your script is working sweetly on one, while has the above error shows on the other. I sent in a support ticket to the 2nd host and am awaiting their response.

Thought you’d like to know.

Gary

Just one question now. Is there a separate FTP Username and FTP password for ShareASale? I couldnt find any reference to it at their site but the plugin has fields for it. I tried my regular login SAS username and password but still failed to get ADPS started last night and today.

Also, it’s 24+ hours since getting merchant approval. Could they be dragging their feet on my request for FTP access? or is it something else?

The error messages I get are:

Warning: ftp_login() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home1/findgood/public_html/zzz/wp-content/plugins/ADPS2/SAS-FTP.php on line 153

Warning: ftp_pasv() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home1/findgood/public_html/zzz/wp-content/plugins/ADPS2/SAS-FTP.php on line 157
Error: Ftp connection has failed!
Attempted to connect to datafeeds.shareasale.com for user xxx”

(where zzz = my hosting account username and xxx = my SAS username).

Gary

I’m answering this here are for the benefit of everyone, but I’ll also send it to you in e-mail to make sure you don’t miss it.

ADPS will work with any working, recent version install of WordPress. And since WordPress can run on a subdomain, main domain, or even in a folder or directory of the main domain or subdomain, ADPS will also work in these situations. So as long as your WordPress is working, ADPS will too. The only difference, is if you choose to use the cloaked or hidden links feature of ADPS. This is outlined in the manual, but you simply have to place your htaccess file in a different location.

As for loading one merchant per “folder”, that answer is complicated. First of all, nothing is loaded into any folders on your server. ADPS creates content posts which are posted into WordPress just like any other standard content post is. ADPS does allow you to have the posts created in different categories on your WordPress site.

Now it’s important to understand that ADPS is not designed to work with just one merchant. So it will not take every product from a merchant data feed file and post all of those to your website at once like standard data feed scripts will. Instead, it is designed to drip feed your website so that it grows slowly and naturally. It’s also specifically designed to mix products from multiple merchants, so that you will not end up with a thin affiliate site. When you post products from just one merchant data feed file, that creates a thin affiliate sites.

If you want to create WordPress posts from just one merchant in one category you can do this a couple of ways. One way is to simply configure ADPS for just one merchant instead of multiple ones. The second way is to use the filter word feature, and enter your merchant name as the word or phrase to filter on.

For example, ADPS allows you to configure up to five merchant data feeds per site. If you have more than one merchant configured, then when ADPS creates your posts for you, it will create posts with products from all the merchants you have configured. If you want to only post products from one merchant, you can simply have just one merchant configured in the ADPS admin area.

With just one merchant entered into the configuration, the posts which are created will only contain products from that one merchant. If you would like all the products from that merchant to be put into one category, you simply choose the category that you want to posts created in. If you want to go broad, and not create posts with similar niche products, then you would simply leave the filter word phrase box empty. When there is no filter word or phrase entered, ADPS will randomly select products from the merchant feed its configured with.

Alternatively, you can have multiple merchants entered into your ADPS configuration and just use the filter word functionality to have ADPS only select products which have a specific merchant name in them. And of course, you can tell ADPS which category of your site those products should be posted into.

Keep in mind though, that if the merchant feed you are using contains a variety of products such as baby toys, jewelry, and small kitchen appliances, you may end up with posts on your site that have unrelated products in them. You can avoid this of course, by setting your minimum and maximum product amount per post to just one. Putting just one product into each post however, also runs the risk of creating a thin affiliate sites. You can negate this of course, depending on the WordPress theme you’re using since it controls what all is shown on each page of your site.

Hopefully this all makes sense, and hopefully it helps too
if you have more questions, feel free to ask.
Kathy

I was hoping to use it (on a different domain) to publish different datafeeds into different folders where each folder is for a different product/topic/niche. In other words, a somewhat broad shopping site with many departments. (I have a spare shopping-named domain waiting to be used!).

Can ADPS do that?

Or do I need one domain per ADPS installation?

I searched the PDF manual and couldnt find anything about subdomains so I am thinking it’s one topic per site. Mind you, I would love for you to tell me I am wrong.

Gary