A common reason for Auction Nudge not loading is the use of ad blocking browser plugins (like Adblock Plus). If you are using such a plugin, disable it, or add an exception to see if Auction Nudge loads without it.
Once the plugin has been enabled, you can add Auction Nudge to your site in a few different ways:
To save you from entering your eBay username and eBay site every time you want to add an Auction Nudge tool, you can set these as defaults in the Settings > Auction Nudge > Your eBay Defaults section.
If your username changes, you can also use this feature to update all existing Auction Nudge instances.
Once the plugin has been enabled, an Auction Nudge box will appear on your edit page/post admin pages underneath the content editor. This box enables you to specify the desired options for the Your eBay Listings, Your eBay Profile and Your eBay Feedback tools.
Once you have set your options, you can add the relevant Auction Nudge shortcode (e.g. [auction-nudge tool="listings"]) to the content editor where you would like the content to display.
Each Auction Nudge tool has it's own shortcode format:
<!-- To display Your eBay Listings --> [auction-nudge tool="listings"] <!-- To display Your eBay Profile --> [auction-nudge tool="profile"] <!-- To display Your eBay Feedback --> [auction-nudge tool="feedback"]
A widget is available for each Auction Nudge tool. You can add these to your site by going to Appearance > Widgets. Once you have selected the desired options, you can add the tools to widgetized areas of your site.
As well as adding Auction Nudge content to your pages/posts using the shortcode, you can also call the plugin directly from your theme files.
To use this feature, generate your code snippets from the Auction Nudge website and paste them in to the appropriate boxes in the Settings > Auction Nudge > Within Your Theme page. You can then use the following functions to add Auction Nudge within your theme files:
/* To display Your eBay Listings */ <?php an_items(); ?> /* To display Your eBay Profile */ <?php an_profile(); ?> /* To display Your eBay Feedback */ <?php an_feedback(); ?>
Auction Nudge will automatically use the CSS rules for your web page (for example, font and link colours), so it integrates nicely with your site. You can specify your own styles using simple CSS rules.
You can change the CSS rules for Auction Nudge by adding them to the Auction Nudge CSS Rules section of the plugin settings page. Refer to the Customize section of the Auction Nudge website for more information and examples.
As a quick example, to make all of links displayed by the Your eBay Listings tool red, you could add this rule:
div#auction-nudge-items a {
color: red;
}
To change the alternating background colour of the Your eBay Listings Column theme, add this rule:
div#auction-nudge-items table.columns tr {
background-color: red;
}
div#auction-nudge-items table.columns tr.alt {
background-color: blue;
}
All themes can be adjusted in this way.
To reduce server load, Auction Nudge does not update every time it is loaded on your site. The tools update as follows:
Due to an unforeseen issue with the eBay data source which powers the Your eBay Feedback tool, the Show X Entries option is now limited to a maximum of 5 entries (was previously 25) and the Feedback Type option has been removed.
More information available here.
As of version 4.3 of the plugin, the Your eBay Ads tool has been retired. This was due to very poor performance by the tool in converting website visitors into potential buyers on eBay. All existing snippets will continue to function indefinitely.
More information available here.
The following links should help with most questions and issues:
If you believe you have found a bug, you can report issues here.