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

[FM]

Dear Zazzle community manager
Can you please tell where to find the HTML code for products I want to promote on my blog ?
Where is the link icon ?? (marked in yellow in the image below)

[LMGildersleeve]

Well, if you haven't already heard it's the "share" icon picture on the Product image. Click on that and find the "copy link" button.

[FM]

I have heard and SEEN this button.
It's NOT WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. 
I'm looking for the option to copy HTML code, which will also pull the IMAGE link, to embed it on my website, like this:

And I need it to promote other creators' products, as an affiliate

[angelafuller729]

It's still available!  from your back end / production area  click on share... the same codes pop up  

[FM]

It's still available for MY OWN PRODUCTS, not for other creators' products that I want to promote as an affiliate.

[angelafuller729]

sorry - misread.  I use Weebly for my website and can easily paste the image link first, then copy/paste the URL to link the image back to Zazzle.  I never liked the HTML code because of the white border and extra text it created. The way I'm doing it now allows me to add additional info as a caption (and also add the alt text - which is important to Pinterest and Google)  screenshot of webpage for baby items 

[FM]

Where do you get the image link from? Do you inspect the HTML page ? (or view page source?)

[angelafuller729]

If you click on the new share feature, then rt click on the image, you get the image url.  I paste that on my website, then go back and use the copy link feature to get the URL code WITH rf built in.   

[FM]

THANKS !! Didn't think to try it...

[Angel]

🌟⭐⭐⭐🌟's to you!

I never would of thought of right clicking on that image.

[ColsCreations]

Weirdly, there is another thread with this identical subject title over in General Discussion, with 75 replies.

general-zazzle-discussion/is-zazzle-intentionally-trying-to-put-a-stop-to-affiliating-by 

[FM]

I saw this thread too. 
This solution requires a lot of work. I know I can inspect the HTML page but it is TIME CONSUMING and requires a lot of WORK. I'm not going to dig inside page source for a each product I'd like to promote. The specific code that Zazzle provided until recently was very helpful.
This thread has also become more of a discussion about software that someone is promoting (that Nifty thing) rather than a simple answer, required from Zazzle, to a very simple question: WHERE did taht HTML code go?

Maybe they don't want us to promote on websites anymore? 

[buxmontweb]

I agree. I wish Zazzle would put the link for HTML code back on the individual public product pages.

[Windy]

Creating the HTML link is Time consuming, yes. And impossible, for me. Because I use an iPad, which does not provide a way to check the page source at all. 

[FM]

THANKS to all the responders. I'm NOT looking for WORKAROUND solutions. I know the solutions to work through HTML (or where to find the HTML code to my OWN products). It's time-consuming !!
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Actually, my question is for Zazzle people who surely have representatives in this community (community manager or moderators). The question is very simple - WHY did you HIDE the HTML code, which saved a lot of time in uploading OTHER CREATORS' products to a website/blog as an affiliate (associate).

Are you trying to put a stop to affiliating by removing HTML?

[Windy]

Maybe @Scott or @Rebecca  or @James or @James_C  will chime in and give an answer. I would be satisfied to know whether the removal of HTML generator code is permanent, or whether we can expect it back one day soon.

I don't really need to know why it's gone. Zazzle would surely have a good reason, if it's gone for good.

A lot of Creators seem to think the removal of the HTML code generator for other people's products is simply an oversight.  

[FM]

@Windy Thanks for mentioning their names. I just don't know them yet (I'm new here in the community).
I think, too, that the removal of the HTML code an oversight.

[chefcateringbiz]

Someone just messaged me saying a code didn't work, I have to guess (since they didn't provide any details of what they are talking about, probably assuming a product link would automatically pop up like it used to in chat BUT IT DOESN'T) it was a referral code or something. Zazzle, please get it together. You have plenty of time for cosmetic changes, I see them all the time. Time to siphon off some of that energy to things like this.