Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation/Activation
• Configuration
• Testing
• Per-Post/Per-Page Settings
• Geo-Targeting
• Making The Images Clickable
• Replacing WordPress Search With eBay Search
• Inserting phpBay Code Into Theme Files
• Buy phpBay Pro (20% off coupon: DA9CD69F42)
• From Picking A Market To Building/Managing Your phpBay (Or BANS) Site

phpBay Per-Post and Per-Page Settings

There are a number of settings that you can specify on a per-post or per-page level. I will go over some popular ones. The phpBay manual can be referenced for more details.

There are 18 total parameters that can be set, with the only required one being the ‘search term’ which is the first parameter. phpBay will check the global settings for the settings to use for any unused parameters. All parameters are separated by commas and have to be used in the proper order, but again, not all values have to be set. In the previous example we used just 2 of them.

The 1st parameter as we know, is the search term. If you want to add multiple terms, just separate them with the pipe symbol “|” (above the Enter key usually). For example:

The 2nd parameter is the number of auctions to display.

The 3rd parameter is the eBay Category ID. This is a great way to add different pages to your site broken down by catgeory. Also, for example, if you want to search for ‘jewelry’ but only Wholesale Lots, you would need to add a category ID, otherwise you will get results from multiple categories.

Click here for the US Category list and their corresponding ID’s. Don’t worry, the correct results will still show up when looking at other countries auctions.

Here’s an example for ‘jewelry’ auctions in the ‘Wholesale Lots’ category. I will leave out the number of auctions (2nd parameter), to show you how to skip parameters that you do not want to use:

The 4th parameter is for exclusion keywords. Add words separated by spaces, as a way to filter out some auctions that show up in your results that don’t belong or that you do not want.

Another parameter I like to use is the 12th one. It is used to specify a Custom ID on the page (or post) level. That way you can fine tune your tracking. Now, in addition to tracking at the site level, you can now track at the page/post level.

If you turned on ‘paging’ in the global settings, and you specify a value in parameter 2 (number of listings to show), then you will need to turn off paging for this page/post. To do that, set the 17th parameter to a 0 (just the number zero).

Next I will get into setting up geo-targeting for phpBay which is a free upgrade that will automatically show auction listings specific to the visitors country.

More info: phpBay Pro: The Extended Manual – Parameter Settings