Facebook Tracking ID causing 404

  • Resolved disturbedpl

    (@disturbedpl)


    6 years ago

    Hello John!

    There is an issue with the plugin and Facebook. As you may know, when a link is posted on the Facebook platform, they automatically add a tracking ID in order to allow for data collection. Unfortunately, with the redirection plugin, the tracking ID is causing an issue and redirecting to a 404 page. You can check this by creating any random redirect and then posting it to a Facebook page. Unfortunately, this issue has caused me to delete the plugin for the meantime and change the link of the actual product. Once it has been look at, I will reinstall.

    Regards!

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    You will need to create a redirect that takes the parameters into account, either using a regular expression or directly.

    A future version of Redirection will make this easier.

    Thread Starter disturbedpl

    (@disturbedpl)

    Don’t you think that kind of defeats the point since facebook can generate ids dynamically and they might change? If you use multiple copies of the same link it also creates seperate ids for each one. The redirect should put a / at the end like normal friendly urls do so that it doesn’t cause the issue.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    You can handle dynamic IDs with a regular expression.

    cobicohen

    (@cobicohen)

    You mentioned – “A future version of Redirection will make this easier.” – When do you expect that this will be remedied in a release? I’m going to have to append all of my current redirects with regex.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    Sorry, I don’t have anything more specific than ‘a future version’.

    cobicohen

    (@cobicohen)

    Thanks – can you provide assistance with how to handle dynamic IDs with a regular expression?

    I’d also like to know how to handle this. It comes up a lot with how I use Redirection.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    Just a note that there is now an alpha version of the plugin which allows you to ignore query parameters without regular expressions:

    https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/releases/tag/4.0-alpha-1

    If you are able to test then I’d appreciate any feedback on Github, or direct at https://redirection.me/contact/

    Thanks, John. I tested it out on a development site and looked like it was working well with a few links that were broken from parameters/tracking being appended to the url by external websites & communication tools. Any idea on when this will feature will be published?

    Appreciate your work on this great plugin!

    Best,
    Michael

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by mparascandola.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    I need to release 3.7 first, and then 4.0 will be after when I feel it’s had sufficient testing. Thanks for the feedback!

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