Is Zazzle intentionally trying to put a stop to affiliating by removing HTML?

I can’t see a way to find HTML code for products I want to promote on my blog. I can find HTML for my own products through my  backend. But I can’t see how to find HTML for someone’s else’s product. Obviously I do not have access to the backend of someone’s else’s product line.

Will Zazzle return HTML to the product page?

Or is this Zazzle’s notice to designers to stop affiliating? 

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Not being able to generate html for products outside my own store, will negatively impact sales traffic from blogs/websites.  Also, by removing the html tool on the product page, we now cannot generate html for different view options.  So, if I want to promote the front and inside views of a greeting card (see sample below), I can now only offer the 1 view that’s on the product page.  This huge disadvantage will hinder driving sales from my blog and website to zazzle. 

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How are you finding the html of your own products? I can’t even find this :cry:

Go to your Products page and below each product.  Click “SHARE”  
You will see the chain/link icon that used to be on the individual product pages.
Unfortunately we can no longer change the “view options” and generate html code for different views.

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It is still there.  After locating the product doing a search, you just have to click the “share” link before clicking on the product.  

That’s not working for me for my own or other people’s products from the product page. There is no “share” link on the product page any longer for me. Only the curved arrow in upper left corner which opens these share options with no HTML option:

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You can get html code for your own products by going to your products catalog page. 
Click SHARE (below the product image)   - Scroll up on this thread to see a screenshot.
Unfortunately it only works for your own products.  We cannot generate html for other designers’ products any longer.   For our own products, we cannot switch product view and get html for a different view option either.   It’s a big problem and will be devastating to affiliate marketing

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I was able to change the product view of my product by first clicking on the desired image thumbnail and then clicking on the left arrow in the top left corner.

https://www.zazzle.com/z/as15xeef?rf=238178782455895052
https://www.zazzle.com/z/aw0k2gty?rf=238178782455895052

ETA: I accomplished the above by going to the individual product page (not by doing it from the backend). This method should also work for others’ products.

W.H.

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@Windy  @Bina18  

I’m really worried about these things, too.  Now it’s going to be much more difficult to add interesting content to blogs and web sites. I can’t imagine why Zazzle would want this to happen. I hope the change is not final and that the html code will be back very soon! 

Also I would like a return to a one-click way to add designs to my promoting-others collection. 

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I agree.  I really need to get access to the HTML code for other’s products for my blog.

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Yes, that works from the back end for one’s own products, I was affirming what the OP stated there’s no way to get the HTML code for other people’s products. That link used to appear on the product page under the image.

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@WHS_Designs   You have posted links to the page of different views,  but are you also seeing the HTML codes for those views as well? This is what some of us are looking for and not finding. We want to be able to post different views of a product to a blog, not just link to the product.

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if by HTML coding, you mean the complicated mess we used to post for products in the Show Me forum (and we still can, albeit only from the backend), no. these new links are (much) shortened links. they link to the product, but they do show different views.

W.H.

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We’re referring to the HTML code generator (see below)…  up to a few days ago, before they disabled the function on the individual product pages (below the product image),
we WERE able to:

  1.   generate code on ANY product (our own AND other designers’)
    ==> Now we can only get HTML code our own products from the products catalog page.
    2.  switch to different views on the individual product page, and immediately generate code for that view (so that we could offer different view options on our blog/website).
    ==> Now we’re stuck with the product view on the Products catalog page only (no HTML code for an alternative product view).

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@WHS_Designs   Yes, that HTML code might look like a complicated mess,  but it’s what I used to create all my POD Postcard Blog posts. Click the link and Scroll down the page to see how the products show on my POD Postcard blog.  Each product shows as a picture.  I think people read the blog because they like to see the pictures you see here. 

https://podpostcard.blogspot.com/2022/07/find-perfect-rhino-for-your-postcard.html

Now imagine, that instead of any pictures at all, I simply pasted a link to each of about 7 to 12 postcards on my POD Postcard blog. The entire page would be text and no one would have pretty pictures to look at. 

If HTML code generator is gone and gone for good, I will stop posting Zazzle products to my blog. 

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ahh … got it. :slightly_smiling_face: :disappointed_face:

ETA: the interesting thing is that Collections still have the HTML coding (the chainlink icon is still there), so maybe the removal of that chainlink icon on the individual product pages was an oversight on Zazzle’s part. 

W.H.

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Oh, cool…that is interesting, hadn’t noticed that collections still have HTML. I am willing to believe, or at least to HOPE,  that this is all a work in progress, and that HTML code will appear again. 

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Oh boy. There is a way to do it, but it is so time consuming!

It involves combining the copy link on the individual product page from the new white arrow with HTML coding from the page source (specifically, line 45 (product view link) and line 391 (store link)) … at least, in this particular instance. 

As an example ((this is another designer’s binder I’m posting, based on the HTML coding I was able to generate and extract from employing the View page source (Alt+U) command:

Pastel Pink Blue Candy Cane Spiral Fractal 3 Ring Binder
Pastel Pink Blue Candy Cane Spiral Fractal 3 Ring Binder
by AN School & Office Supplies

And that’s just for one view. So yes, let’s hope that the chainlink icon gets reinstated!

In the meantime, as a temporary workaround, I suppose you could always create and curate a Collection for Postcards, and share that to your blog instead.

W.H.

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I would love to hear from Scott or any of the other team moderators about this.  A lot of us are seriously concerned about how we will be able to promote other creator’s products to our blogs.  PLEASE give us an update! Thanks!

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OK - here is “something”.

I wanted to post a newly created product to the forum - no immediate link on product page. However, when I clicked on the EMAIL IT button on the Congratulations on the post, there is “Email this to a friend” and “Link to this” on the left side. Link to this gives the usual/old HTML selections.

Luggage - Woven Rainbow Colored Ribbons
Luggage - Woven Rainbow Colored Ribbons
by bkmuir

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