We used phpBay and phpZon for many years and suddenly in 2020 discovered it gone.
A little research revealed phpBay and phpZon have been abandoned by its author
phpZON vanished in 2018 and I suspect the final straw for phpBay was eBay withdrawing products feeds as of September 2020. From what I hear Wade Wells lost interest many moons ago but continued to sell the software although it was never updated or supported. We contacted WordPress to had phpBay removed from the plugin store.
phpBay Pro Plugin for WordPress
Add Ebay listings to your WordPress posts.
Version 4.1.2 | By Wade Wells | Visit plugin site (links 404)
Feeds stop working in September 2020
[phpbay keywords=”key wordss” num=”5″ siteid=”1″ sortorder=”BestMatch” templatename=”default” itemsperpage=”10″ paging=”true”]
Replace them with WP eBay Product Feeds + Auction Request
WP eBay Product Feeds
I have yet to find a replacement for Amazon feeds but we are using the very good WP eBay Product Feeds.
There are free and paid versions of WP eBay Product Feeds plus you will have to purchase a Feed Generator from auctionrequest.com.
WP eBay Product Feeds (formerly eBay Feeds for WordPress) is a WordPress plugin that allows you to share your latest eBay auctions on your WordPress enabled website. If you are a shop or an affiliate website, you can use WP eBay Product Feeds to show auctions.
Rhys Wynne is the senior editor at Winwar Media, with many years experience in creating WordPress plugins.
Auction Request
Auction Request is a system that allows you to generate dynamic auction feeds that each display up to 100 auctions crafted around the search parameters you’ve set. It’s designed for eBay shops with an external website, or an eBay Affiliate who wants to earn money through their content. Auction Request can be embedded into any site quickly and easily, and comes with a bunch of easy integration options for any tool that uses RSS feeds.
WP eBay Product Feeds (formerly eBay Feeds for WordPress) is a WordPress plugin that allows you to share your latest eBay auctions on your WordPress enabled website. If you are a shop or an affiliate website, you can use WP eBay Product Feeds to show auctions.
The auctions are updated in real time, so only listings that are live will show up on your site. Furthermore, you can style the listings however you wish. It’s easy to use and install, and styling can be created and edited by modifying CSS.
I found this note regarding phpBay Pro API 3.x. but we couldn’t get it to work.
We’ve had a user confirm that phpBay Pro API 3.x (for standalone PHP-based websites) does work. You’ll need to edit the file ebay.php and change the following line:
var $eb_base = “http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?”;
to
var $eb_base = “https://www.auctionrequest.com/arfeed.php?uid=[AUCTIONREQUEST USERID]&”;
where [AUCTIONREQUEST USERID] is your AuctionRequest UserID from your profile, without brackets. Additionally, you’ll need to be on the Premium tier with a campaign ID entered in your profile for you to receive affiliate credit.
We have not heard from anyone who’s using the WordPress version of phpBay, but we presume it will also work with some modification. However, as phpBay has been abandoned by its author, we do not recommend its use and cannot provide any support for it; instead, we point you to one of the solutions featured on our front page.
What happened to phpBay/phpZon?
I used the plugins for the eBay and Amazon programs many years ago. They had a thriving community and now, the community and almost all mentions of the software are gone. Does anyone know what happened to them?
phpBay/Zon has been neglected for YEARS. I’ve been using it for well over 7 years. The developer was kind of a rat, he gave up on the project years ago but was still collecting money from people buying the software which was literally never updated. Very underhanded way to do business. Now all of the sudden the site shows a 404. Guess those of us with aged sites running entirely off of phpBay are now completely screwed. I’m personally scrambling to find an alternative, but there isn’t one that even comes close to what phpBay did.
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