Comments on: Link Cloaking Plugin Update

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:26:36 +0000

No idea, André never got back to me on the issue (unless I’ve lost the email to my overzealous spam filters or something).

Anyway, here’s what I know for sure : cloaked links redirect to the homepage when the plugin is unable to find the original URL that corresponds to the cloaked link. This usually happens when the post in question contains links generated by plugins (or other dynamically generated links).

If that’s the case for your site then the only practical solution is either deactivating the plugin that generates the links, or getting the premium version of the link cloaker that can also handle dynamically generated links.

If plugin-made links aren’t the problem additional testing will be necessary to localize & fix the issue.

By: Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:52:19 +0000

I’m having the same problem

“the plugin still redirects cloaked links to the mainpage instead of redirecting it to the target url”

What was the solution?

Thanks

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By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:40:31 +0000

Send me the URL of the site where you have installed the plugin, I’ll take a look and maybe figure something out. You could also email me your .htaccess file, unless it’s secret My email is on the contact page.

And sorry for the late answer, my computer broke.

By: André Lungstraß

André Lungstraß — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:23:13 +0000

It happens to all cloaked links. Those generated by plugins but also to cloaked links directly in posts or pages. I have turned every additional rewrite rules off in .htaccess, but the plugin still redirects cloaked links to the mainpage instead of redirecting it to the target url. There isnt any other cloaking plugin out there with outstanding features like your plugin and I do not really want to miss it. Do you have any other ideas how to figure out the problem?

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:19:43 +0000

That usually happens with links added by other plugins. Does that ring any bells?

By: André Lungstraß

André Lungstraß — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:12:26 +0000

Thank you for this great plugin. This is the only cloaking plugin where you can configure global cloaking and specify exception domains. But unfortunately it redirects all cloaked links to my main page. The .htaccess is correctly modified like described in readme.txt. Do you have any suggestions?

By: Dhany

Dhany — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:49:44 +0000

This plugin is exactly what I need.
May I suggest one small feature to add “target=”_blank”" option. So the click on the link automatically open in new window.

Thanks!

By: name

name — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:27:39 +0000

It is a very good thing,

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:23:57 +0000

Unfortunately the plugin doesn’t work that way. It only deals with links inside post content, so even if you format your PHP code the way you did the custom-field link still won’t be cloaked.

I’ll add the ability to cloak any link – whether in the post content, sidebar, headers or somewhere else – eventually (probably in a commercial version). That won’t be very soon though.