Here’s a simple wordpress plugin that I adapted from another wordpress plugin that was adapted from another wordpress plugin

It’s called Ezlite and it allows you to quickly insert Ebay RSS feeds, Amazon product tag RSS feeds, or any other type of plain RSS feed directly into your wordpress posts or pages.

The way it works is simple. You simply insert the following tags into your post wherever you want for them to display.

To insert an Ebay RSS feed into your wordpress post

[ebay]ebay search string (with,all,features) -working -ithink;#;campaignid[/ebay]

The search string is simply whatever string you would type into the ebay search box in order to come up with the results that you want to show in your wordpress post. The “#” is the number of results that you want, and the “campaignid” is whatever ebay campaign you want to use.

To insert an Amazon RSS feed into your wordpress post

[amazon]amazon tag;#;affiliate-id[/amazon]

The amazon tag is whatever product tag you want to pull the RSS feed for. Unfortunately, Amazon does not currently offer RSS feeds for searches the way Ebay does, so you have to make do with the feeds for their products tags. This can be a pain for some niches that haven’t been tagged very well, but for some niches it works out. Again the “#” is simply the number of RSS items you want to have show up in your wordpress post, and the “affiliate-id” is your Amazon affiliate ID. Confusing, I know.

To insert an RSS feed into your wordpress post

[rss]http://mydomain.com/myfeedlocation/;#[/rss]

This will simply pull the contents of any feed into your wordpress post at the time that the post is loaded. Note that there is no built-in caching or anything like that, so be careful where you’re getting your RSS feed when it comes to using this plugin on high-traffic sites. Amazon & Ebay have no problem getting their RSS feeds pulled a few thousand times a minute, but your average blog owner is not likely to feel the same way, especially if wordpress is generating a fresh RSS feed for you on every pageload.

Download the plugin

You can download the plugin here: ezlite.zip

If you like this plugin and make money with it, please consider throwing a couple of links at some of my websites like davidgodot.com, waytogogodot.com, or allsci.org.

Thanks, best luck, and enjoy!