In case you haven’t read my introduction to AMZ Table Assistant blog post, one of the biggest features released in update 1.4 was the ability to create custom shortcode buttons!
I used to manually create tons of shortcode variations and hardcoded those into the extension to accommodate everyone. Obviously this wasn’t very practical, so we released the ability to make custom shortcode copy buttons!
Default copy buttons are the most basic shortcodes (like a simple product box). Custom copy shortcode buttons can be made as simple or complex as you’d like. You can change the color of your buttons, give them unique names, or give them unique attributes like new window or nofollow.
For example, if you wanted to create a complex AAWP shortcode grid with a dark theme, you would create a custom button like this: [amazon box=”|ASIN Value|” grid=”1″ style=”dark”]
We didn’t make this a ‘default copy button’ because not many people would use it, but if you have a black-background website – it might be something you’d use.
The point is – you can make these custom shortcode buttons as simple or complex as you want. You can create commonly used shortcode buttons, or create ones that may only be used in a certain post. You can make all your buttons a shade of red for 1 website, and blue for the other.
To view the full list of custom copy shortcode examples, click here.