Change Log
Below is a list of versions and relevant changes that Auction Nudge has seen. If you have any feature requests or bug reports then please contact me.
v2.51
Date : 18/04/13
- Updated the Making links generated by Auction Nudge open in a popup window demo to the latest version of jQuery
- Updated the Help page
- Fixed a bug with increasing the image size of items in the Your eBay Items "Images Only" theme. Thanks to Clay for bringing this to my attention
- Added auto scroll speed option to the Your eBay Items "Carousel" theme. Thanks to Justinas for this suggestion
v2.50
Date : 06/03/13
- Classified items bug fixed in Carousel theme for Your eBay Items tool. Thanks to Mark for pointing this out to me.
v2.49
Date : 24/01/13
- Best Match sort order added to Your eBay Items tool advanced options.
v2.48
Date : 21/01/13
- Another bug fix in Carousel theme for the Your eBay Items tool.
v2.47
Date : 13/01/13
- Fixed small bug in Carousel theme for the Your eBay Items tool. Thanks to Daniel for pointing this out to me.
v2.46
Date : 10/01/13
- More advanced options added to Your eBay Items tool:
- Sort order – adjusts the order of items shown
- Filter by keyword – only show items with specified keyword in item title (up to 5 keywords)
- Updated Examples page.
v2.45
Date : 06/01/13
- Improved Your eBay Items tool error messages and added warning if more than 3 category filters are entered.
- Added content to Help page and reorganised page for easier navigation and reading.
- Updated eBay Developers Program Member logo to reflect brand change.
v2.44
Date : 15/11/12
- Fixed bug where Your eBay Profile and Your eBay Feedback tool demo/code generators were not functioning correctly.
v2.43
Date : 11/11/12
- Fixed issue where some browsers did not render the $ symbol correctly.
- Added to Help page.
v2.42
Date : 06/11/12
- Updated feed "right now on eBay" logo to reflect brand change.
- Added "Carousel" theme to Your eBay Listings tool. Example of using this as a 'ticker' on demo page.
- Updated Help page.
- Updated Demo page.
v2.41
Date : 02/11/12
- Removed non-existent stylesheets from being loaded in feeds where an error occured.
- Handle bug where sometimes eBay returns blank response.
v2.4
Date : 01/11/12
- Migrated Your eBay Listings tool from eBay API to eBay RSS.
- Reinstated filtering items by category feature.
- Removed eBay Poland from Your eBay Listings tool.
- Added "Buy It Now available" text on some Your eBay Listings themes when an item is listed as an auction and also has a Buy It Now price. This additional text can be hidden if required.
v2.35
Date : 29/10/12
- Added eBay Spain to all tools due to popular demand.
- If an eBay site is specified for the Your eBay Feedback tool, feed links will now point to the specified eBay site.
v2.34
Date : 27/10/12
- Fixed website asset compression bug which caused JS/CSS to not load temporarily :'(
v2.33
Date : 24/10/12
- Removed category filter feature due to increased server load. More information.
- Updated robots.txt to ensure search engines do not crawl Javascript feeds.
- eBay API model efficiency improvements.
v2.32
Date : 10/10/12
- Added rel="nofollow" to all feed links generated by Auction Nudge. Even though these links are added to the page by Javascript after page load, this ensures they are not followed by the search engines bots. Thanks to Andy at Global Sound Trade Ltd for his comments.
- Added information to Help / FAQ page about increasing the size of item images.
v2.31
Date : 02/10/12
- eBay API model cache tweaks.
- Help / FAQ page updates.
v2.3
Date : 26/09/12
- Updated eBay API model to increase response cache times for users who have had no active items for long periods of time. Read more.
v2.2
Date : 28/08/12
- Added new 'unstyled' theme to the Your eBay Listings tool. Help here.
- Added the ability to hide "No active items." text from showing on sites that currently have no active items.
- Updated eBay API model to fix duplicate request bug.
- Added extra help documentation.
v2.11
Date : 02/07/12
Small fixes:
- Allow exclamation mark ("!") in eBay usernames, thanks Darrell
- Fixed bug with special characters in eBay usernames
v2.1
Date : 20/06/12
A major update which adds the #1 requested feature and fixes the #1 queried bug (previously no work-around was available) Many thanks to everyone who got in touch, your feedback is invaluable!
- After many requests from users you can now filter items by category using the Your eBay Items tool. This is useful if you have items listed in multiple categories on eBay but only want to display those listed in a certain category on your site. What's more you can specify up to 3 different categories.
More help and information is available on the Help/FAQ page. - Fixed Your eBay Profile bug where badges linked through to the eBay US site regardless of where the user is registered. This sometimes meant listings were not being displayed on the eBay US site. When generating the code snippet, a eBay site can now be specified.
v2.07
Date : 12/09/11
- Items listed in the US will now display the end date in US format.
- Fixed issue with eBay IDs which contained a dollar character "$".
- Performance improvements:
- Switched to CDN to host images used in themes.
- HTTP expires headers now sent to reflect API caching.
v2.06
Date : 09/08/11
- Migrated from eBay Shopping API to Finding API for Your eBay Listings requests.
v2.05
Date : 13/04/11
- Added 'Grid' theme to Your eBay Items tool. This theme allows you to specify the width and numbers of columns listings are displayed in.
v2.04
Date : 01/04/11
- Fixed issue with the "badge" Your eBay Profile theme where the time of day was not correct.
v2.03
Date : 24/03/11
- Auction Nudge now enables you to display your up-to-date eBay feedback on your own website. The Your eBay Feedback tool shows the 5 most recent feedback received and will update once more feedback is received.
- Auction Nudge now has support for more international eBay sites. The items can now be displayed from the following eBay sites:
- eBay UK
- eBay US
- eBay Canada
- eBay Australia
- eBay Belgium *NEW*
- eBay Germany *NEW*
- eBay France *NEW*
- eBay Austria *NEW*
- eBay Italy *NEW*
- eBay Netherlands *NEW*
- eBay Ireland *NEW*
- eBay Poland *NEW*
v2.02
Date : 10/03/11
- Fixed issue where some images were not displaying for items listed in the multi-variant format.
v2.01
Date : 07/09/10
- Fixed issue with eBay IDs which contained a period "."
v2.00
Date : 04/09/10
The Auction Nudge front-end and back-end have been completely re-written from scratch with not a single line of code copied from the original version. Using the Codeigniter PHP Framework I was able to work from the ground up and create a version of Auction Nudge that was much more powerful than the original version and also more flexible.
Although many many improvements have been made, some include :
- Migrating to the eBay Shopping API
- More performance improvements, Auction Nudge now loads faster then ever!
- Adding new options to the 'Your eBay Listings' tool
- Addition of the 'Your eBay Profile' tool which allows users to embed information about their eBay profile
- Fresh new website design with lots more help content
- Improved Demo and Examples pages
v0.61
Date : 11/06/10
- Server side caching - improves load time by 600%
- 'Columns' theme added
v0.60
Date : 22/05/10
- Back end code optimisations and a few front end tweaks.
v0.53
Date : 17/05/10
- Fixed problem with malformed URLs causing eBay "This listing has been removed, or this item is not available." error messages.
v0.52
Date : 07/04/10
- Fixed incorrect output of some special characters
v0.51
Date : 05/04/10
- Send compressed (gzip) output
- Send appropriate HTTP cache headers
Pre v0.51
Auction Nudge was first written in 2008 as a handy tool available on another, now defunct website. Due to it's success it was moved to it's new home here in 2009.
