New Auto Links plugin

  • Hey all,
    I wrote my first plugin, and it’s called Auto Links. It is based on Kidder’s Link Definer plugin, but has more functionality.

    Auto Links turns keywords in your post for popular websites into links automatically for you. So if you use Yahoo in a post, Auto Links makes a link of it. Unlike the original Link Definer plugin, Auto Links will only do this once for each keyword. It would be over kill to turn every reference to Yahoo in your post into a link.

    Also this plugin lets you put a graphic next to each link. You can use the one that comes with Auto Links or use your own, or turn it off altogether. You can also control which window the
    link will open in, be it the parent window or blank window, or whatever you want.

    You can get it here:
    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/index.php/auto-links-plugin-for-wordpress/

    It’s still in beta, but so far it seems to be working well. I need to make a admin panel for it, I know that. But any other feedback would be great!

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  • Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    There is a brand new version of the Auto Links plugin that I’m very excited about.

    The new version, v0.93, has a completely redesigned configuration panel that works, looks, and is more organized than before.

    Also, on my website, there is a new auto installer. Enter your FTP information and it will do everything for you including setting file and directory permissions.

    Some of the new features:

    * Completely redesigned configuration panel.
    * You can now add as many keywords at a time as you want.
    * You can now EDIT keywords.
    * Configuration panel has convenient built in help.
    * Detailed PDF documentation included in the zip file and online.
    * The keyword tracking log viewer is now built into the configuration panel and looks even better than before.
    * Tighter integration of Amazon Associate keywords.
    * And more…

    As always, you can download the latest version from:
    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/index.php/auto-links-plugin-for-wordpress/

    It’s looking pretty good these days. I think version 1.0 is right around the corner.

    – Sean

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    Made a minor update which brings the plugin to version 0.93.1. You can now add keywords on the fly, meaning while you’re writing the post. If there is a word you’re using in a post, and you want to add that to your general keywords list, you can wrap that word in a special tag — which I can’t show you here — and when you save the post, that word gets added to your keywords list and that special tag gets stripped out of the post.

    – Sean

    Sean I realise you haven’t made any changes in this plugin for a while but I was wondering if you could add an easier way to add multiple keywords at once for a given url? Even if only as a comma seperated list.

    I’m sure this would help a lot of others as well.

    Please please please?

    When I active the plgin I get this error in all post
    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/argentin/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/auto_links.php on line 220

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/argentin/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/auto_links.php on line 74

    Warning: preg_replace(): Empty regular expression in /home/argentin/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/auto_links.php on line 178

    Wow just found out about this hack, just what I have been searching for!

    I have a question though, it works fine for my blog but I also have some of my own HTML pages on my site that I would also like for this to happen on, the same keywords and links that I have set up through Auto links only on a HTML page, is this possible and how can it be achieved?

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    @texacola – Sure, that sounds simple enough.

    @argentine – I’ll look into it, are you using the latest version? I ask only so I can make sure I’m looking at the right line numbers.

    @iamwhoam – Hmmm.. There is no easy way to accomplish that. There are hacks, but you’d need to know a little PHP to pull it off. The function that converts keywords into links is al_parse_post ($al_postText). So if you pass the text of your HTML page to al_parse_post, it’ll return that HTML with linkafied words. Example:

    $parsedText = al_parse_post($myHtmlText);

    That much would be pretty easy. Having a separate list of keywords just for your personal HTML pages is more difficult, and require a bit of hacking the code.

    – Sean

    Yes I am using the last version. In fact I was using an other version before which was doing well. I have changed my hosting and trying the new version I have this problem.

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    All versions are online, just not “advertised”. I don’t know which version you were using, but here are some links to past versions.

    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/downloads/auto_links0.93.1.zip
    Latest Version

    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/downloads/auto_links0.93.zip
    -Completely re-coded the admin panel. Ita€?s now much more organized and easier to use.
    -Rewrote some of the code making Auto Links faster.
    -Removed web_links.php and amazon_keywords.php.
    -Configuration panel has built in help.

    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/downloads/auto_links0.92.zip
    -Finally have a new and improved version of the keyword tracking logs viewer.
    -Made small changes to the code here and there.

    https://www.forceagainstsomething.com/downloads/auto_links0.91.zip
    -Auto Links now has built in support for Amazon associates searches.

    Try the version just before the latest one, that might help until I can track down the problem.

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    BTW, what the error sounds like, just off the top of my head, is that the array that holds the keywords and links is empty… as in you have no keywords defined. Since that is probably not the case, try using version 0.92. After that version I made some changes to the way the keywords and links were saved in the database.

    – Sean

    Have tried all versions. They gave me the same error on different lines.
    The version I was using had pre-included a lot of keywords. Don t think was one of this.
    Anyway thanks. Will wait or I should make a new install, don?′t know

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    Howdy people,
    The new version of Auto Links, which is v0.94, is up for download from my new website, https://www.headzoo.com.

    This version fixes a few bugs, but the big new feature is an improvement to the Amazon Associates features. Now you can choose, from the admin panel, which Amazon you want to use.

    You can choose Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp, or Amazon.fr.

    I hope this is good news for everyone out there that have been asking for a UK version.

    – Sean
    https://www.headzoo.com

    Thanks again forcedagainst. Works for me.

    Thread Starter forceagainstsomething

    (@forceagainstsomething)

    Howdy All,
    Well, Auto Links has been doing pretty well. From what I can tell, it’s been downloaded about 6,000 times since I wrote the first version.
    I’ve been pretty busy so I haven’t made any updates in a while, but I’m starting the next minor version. Actually this should be another total re-write.
    If anyone has any suggestions or comments, I’d love to hear them. If the suggestion is good enough, I’ll add it to the next version.

    – Sean
    https://www.headzoo.com

    Great plugin, very useful one, I like it a lot.

    I’m using .94.1. When I started adding keywords it worked fine, but it’s almost like I’ve hit a hard limit of how many I could add (at about 20-30 or so). They’re in the db, but not being auto-linked in the page. My first additions are still working fine, though. Any ideas? Is there a way I can look at the database and see if any URLs are corrupting the rest of them? (I can’t find it)

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