The Blog Fixer

Setting Up Your Amazon Creators Connection

This walks you through getting your Amazon Creators credentials and adding them to Blog Fixer so your Amazon images keep refreshing. Most of it takes a few minutes. The slow part is on Amazon’s end, where new credentials can take up to 24 hours to start working.

Before you start

  • You need a Live Fix subscription. That’s what runs the refresh.
  • Your Amazon Associates account has to qualify for Amazon’s Creators API, which means roughly ten qualified sales in the last thirty days. Only the primary owner of the Associates account can create the credentials.

Step 1: Update the Amazon plugin

Make sure the The Blog Fixer – Azon API & SiteStripe Image Fix plugin is on version 2.0.0 or newer. It usually updates on its own. If it hasn’t, go to Plugins in your WordPress dashboard and run the update.

Step 2: Get your credentials from Amazon

  1. Log in to Amazon Associates Central.
  2. Open the Tools menu and choose Creators API.
  3. Click Create Application and give it any name. It’s only for your own reference.
  4. Click Add New Credential.
  5. Amazon shows you a Credential ID (it looks like amzn1.application-oa2-client...) and a Credential Secret. Copy both now, or download the CSV. Amazon shows the secret only once.

You’ll also need your Associate Tag, your tracking ID, which looks like yourtag-20.

Amazon’s own step-by-step is here if you want it alongside this.

Step 3: Test your credentials

Before you add them, check that they work on our test page. Amazon doesn’t show you whether a credential is active, and new ones can take up to a day to switch on, so testing first saves you guessing.

Step 4: Add them to the plugin

If you set up the Amazon fix before, most of this is already filled in from back then (your Associate Tag, Localization, and the technical settings). You’re really just adding the three Creators fields.

  1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings → Azon SiteStripe Image Fix Settings.
  2. If the Live Fix License Key field is empty, paste your Live Fix key. (If you also run the main Blog Fixer plugin, it fills in on its own.)
  3. Enter your Creators Credential ID and Creators Credential Secret.
  4. In Creators Credential Version, enter 3.1, or leave it blank to use the current default.
  5. Check that your Associate Tag and Localization are set. If you set up the fix before, they already will be.
  6. Leave API Provider on Auto-detect.
  7. Make sure Refresh Images is checked, then Save.

That’s it. Once your credentials are in and your account qualifies, the plugin refreshes your Amazon images on its own.

If it’s not working

  • The test page says you’re not eligible: your Amazon account isn’t at the sales threshold yet (about ten in thirty days). Your existing images keep showing in the meantime, and refreshing turns on by itself once you qualify.
  • It says the credentials are wrong: double-check the Credential ID and Secret for a stray space, and confirm the Localization matches your account.
  • You just created the credentials: give it up to 24 hours. Amazon’s new credentials aren’t always active right away.