Build 100% Responsive, Feature Rich, Ama API Driven Product Comparison Tables
Having a Product Comparison Table on your Amazon affiliate website is just a great idea. It has been proven over and over by countless affiliates and countless niche sites that it works. It converts.
Should I Use a Free or Premium Comparison Table Plugin?
There are a few options out there, and all of them are very different. There are free table building plugins, and premium table building plugins. Some are automated, and some are 100% manual.
Let’s Take a Look the Leading Free Plugin “TablePress” First.
TablePress is the most popular free product comparison table builder used by Amazon assciates as of this writing, and for good reason. TablePress is easy to use, has addons like paginating and filtering, and looks good.
Responsive Tables This is a Premium Extension for TablePress. Support and development takes a lot of work. To allow me to offer Extensions in the future, please consider a donation. TablePress have an Addon called Responsive Tables, you can find the link below. They say it is a Premium Addon, but you do not have to pay/donate to use it.
The Huge Problem with TablePress for Amazon Affiliates
Although TablePress is great and used by thousands of Amazon Affiliates, there is one huge problem.
Adding product images and prices with TablePress goes against Amazon’s Affiliate Terms of Service!
If you are doing this, you are RISKING YOUR ACCOUNT BEING BANNED by not pulling your images and prices using Amazon’s own API. It doesn’t seem like a big deal – until it’s YOUR account being banned.
The problem is that TablePress does not allow you to pull the Amazon product images and prices from the Product Advertising API.
Why is this? Because Amazon now requires you to pull any images and prices from their own API, and TablePress doesn’t do this. You get what you pay for in the end.
So What is a Better Solution that Won;t Risk your Amazon Affiliate Account?
Azon Tables – Amazon API Driven Premium WordPress Product Comparison Table Plugin
When it comes to building Amazon Affiliate based product comparison tables, pulling your images and prices from the API is essential. That is the whole point and purpose of Azon Tables, to pull product information via the API.
Azon Tables Features
- Connects to the Amazon Product Advertising API to pull data, images & more
- Amazon Associate TOS Compliant!
- Auto-Updating Prices!
- Fully Responsive, looks great on all screen sizes
- Lots of Styling Options
- Table Filtering
- Table Sorting
- Table Pagination
- Utilizes Browser Memory
Using the Azon Tables WordPress Plugin is Fast & Easy
Here are the basic steps that you must take to create your product comparison table. There are more style and functionality settings than we are showing here, but here is the important main steps.
Step 1 – Add your Amazon API Information & Affiliate ID
(You can use any Amazon Affiliate Program for Any County they Offer)
Step 2 – Create a Table and Set Up your Columns
Step 3 – Search Amazon From Right Within your Post Edit Screen
Step 4 – Style your Tables & Adjust the Settings for All Screen Sizes
And there you have it. Impressive Responsive Amazon API Driven Product Comparison Tables.
As long as you don’t mind risking your Amazon Affiliate account being BANNED, go ahead and use TablePress for your tables.
If you want to comply with Amazon’s Associate TOS, AND YOU SHOULD LOL, Azon Tables is what you need.
So with our 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE – you have nothing to lose by trying out our plugin. (Not even your Amazon Account).
Go ahead and try it now!
“TablePress Extensions” are separate small WordPress plugins, that add custom features or enhancements to TablePress. This is made possible by using several “Plugin Actions” and “Plugin Filter Hooks” that have been integrated into the code. These allow other plugins to extend and modify TablePress behavior.
Each available Extension has a details page, where you can find information about its purpose, instructions on how to use it, and the download link.
Instead of charging for TablePress Extensions before the buyer can use them, I’m taking a different route: All Extensions can be downloaded, tested, and used as free software, even the Premium Extensions! However, in order for me to continue with this approach, a donation is highly recommended, especially, if the Extensions help you earn money, e.g. on a company website or from client work!
Here’s a list of all Extensions, grouped by their intended use case:
Frontend table behavior
- Responsive TablesPremium
- Row FilteringPremium
- Table Row OrderPremium
More features for the DataTables JavaScript library
- DataTables ButtonsPremium
- DataTables FixedHeaderPremium
- DataTables ColumnFilterWidgetsPremium
Compatibility with other plugins
Tablepress Responsive Mobile
Adjustments for the admin area of TablePress
- Automatic Periodic Table ImportPremium
To use a TablePress Extension, just download it from its details page and install and activate it like any other WordPress plugin. The easiest way to do that is via the “Plugins” -> “Add New” -> “Upload Plugin” pages in your WordPress Dashboard, or by extracting the ZIP file and uploading the contained folder to the “wp-content/plugins/” directory on your server, by using your FTP program.
Some Extensions require or allow further configuration, like adding parameters to the Shortcode that you are using to display your table in a post or on a page. This is then explained on the Extension’s details page.
Technically, TablePress Extensions are regular WordPress plugins and they are installed in the same way. The only real difference is that they are not part of the official WordPress Plugin Directory, mainly because they are pretty small and don’t work without TablePress anyway. That’s also the reason why I chose to name them “Extensions” instead of “Plugins”. You will therefore only receive notifications about available updates for activated Extensions that don’t require modifications by the user.
Tablepress Responsive
If an Extension is useful for you, please consider supporting further development with a donation. Thank you!