Comments on: Link Cloaking Plugin Update

By: DevilSlayer

DevilSlayer — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:20:57 +0000

hi.. @rishill or for those who having error page 404 here is the solution.. u may try it..

add this to your .htaccess file :>
BEGIN WordPress

# Link Cloaker Plugin BEGIN

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^goto/([^/]*)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ http://yourbloglink.com/wp-content/plugins/link-cloaking-plugin/wplc_redirector.php?post_id=$2&link_num=$3&cloaked_url=$0 [L]
RewriteRule ^goto/([^/]+)[/]?$ http://yourbloglink.comt/wp-content/plugins/link-cloaking-plugin/wplc_redirector.php?name=$1&cloaked_url=$0 [L]

# Link Cloaker Plugin ENDS

thanks.. do visit me at myblog sometime.. and thanks for this great plugin!! btw its also work on WPMU.. i already test it

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:25:14 +0000

“Cloaking” can mean more than one thing.

The paid version has an option to use frame redirects. Or you could manually modify the free version to output the necessary frame HTML instead of redirecting.

By: mugger

mugger — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:17:58 +0000

I clicked your demo link, found full display of target url in the address box. That is NOT “cloaking”. The more tedious frame redirect shows the calling page in the final address box. How can I achieve this more directly in WP?
By the way, meta refresh, PHP redirect, 301 redirect all reveal full url in final address box. Frame rdr is the only open source method I have found that does not.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:12:32 +0000

Update permalinks & make sure that the plugins code is at the top of the .htaccess. I’d have to see your site to suggest anything more specific.

By: rishil

rishil — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:09 +0000

Was using the plugin happily – and was working fantastically until the last WP upgrade which borked it. Tried reinstalling it fresh, but still 404’s all content – checked HTA and all seems fine. Any ideas?

By: Joy Miller

Joy Miller — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:07:19 +0000

That’s perfect!! I’m sold. Thanks for the help!

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:03 +0000

Pretty much. Specifically, here's how you could do it in the premium version :

Switch cloaking mode to "Selective cloaking".
Enter the domain name(s) in the "Inclusion list" textbox.
Click "Save Changes".

I even whipped up a quick screenshot to illustrate.

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:55:28 +0000

I will HAPPILY pay more for the premium version if it will allow me to use that feature. So basically, if I upgrade, I uncheck the “cloak” everything option… and then I have the option somewhere to only cloak links that have a specific top-level domain (regardless of the variations that exist in this link…

examples:

http://www.shareresults.com/cid/12345/sid/12345
http://www.shareresults.com/cid/9876/sid/87537

and so on….

I will go ahead and buy the premium if I can simply say:

cloak everything for http://www.shareresults.com but leave everything else alone.

Is this the case?

THANKS!!!

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:49:47 +0000

Unfortunately that’s not possible in free version. The closest thing would be to switch to selective cloaking and tag each link you want cloaked with .

The premium version does have an option to cloak only links to specific top-level domains (the inclusion list).

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:31:16 +0000

Great plugin, but I do have one quick question….

I really don’t want or need to cloak all out-bound links on my site, just those from one particular affiliate program:

http://www.affiliateprogram.com/this_info_is_different_for_every_link

Is there a way to use the static links feature in a way that allows me to cloak every link from the top-level domain: http://www.affiliateprogram.com even though every instance of that link after the “.com/” is unique?

Basically, I don’t want to auto-cloak everything, I just want to auto-cloak every link for http://www.affiliateprogram.com... but every link is slightly different with the exception of the “primary” domain.

Thanks!