Dirty Bill

It happened 3 times in succession, then I had to turn it off, it was killing the site load. I’ll turn it back on and test. With the “‘” issue, We are just using Anthony Thomas instead of De’Anthony Thomas. Not very high tech, but it works. So does the hyphen fix btw.

I found that error in the logs while the site was running.

The import was done a month or so ago. The import was 145 items. No problem with the ‘ character, I’ve got a solution working.

Brand new error with latest update:

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /website.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-auto-affiliate-links/WP-auto-affiliate-links.php on line 812

Import worked fine. Had a long list to bring in. I haven’t done an export yet.

In the continuing saga – support is very good and responsive.

Ok, just gave it a try. No more error, but the fields don’t update. Tried comma separated values, tried replacing existing text with a single work, nothing. Because of the problems with hyphenated (Ifo Ekpre-Olomu) or punctuated (De’Anthony Thomas) names, being able to link/replace these is important.

I appreciate your help and this very cool plugin.

Understood. it’s still a nice theme. I’ll code something up for it.

Yes, menu shows up, can set options, but when I go to test or sync it starts to process then gives me a blank screen. Can reopen the settings and any changes are there, but won’t run. I’ve tried monitoring it in the browser (Chrome dev tools) – starts to show then blank. Nothing shows in my server logs. Definitely puzzled.

OF course now that I go to make changes after the last update, permission errors. It works for import, but doesn’t work for edits….argh.

Bump

Mysql identifies it as a corrupt table with an incompatible format – can’t repair it. Setting the option_name didn’t fix. Hated to lose the data, but dropped the offending tables (3 of them), disabled then re-enable the plugin – let it restore the tables. No more errors…or log data.

This is a good plugin, unfortunate hiccup, but will keep using.

No dev response tells you everything you need to know.

I’d be interested as well

Any news on the update?

Honestly had been waiting until it became a 4 – 5 star plugin. I try not to do bad reviews, as a developer, when you see a bad choice in an update – too early release or something, I feel for the dev, look for a solution. But when the Dev gets nasty – no sympathy – happy to return the favor. If you were going to go to all the effort to create an update to a promising piece of software, why take no thought for anyone who may have deeply integrated your plugin? Why have such a thin skin that you alienate your potential client base and break trust? A large very happy install base of free software has made more than one companies fortunes. This may not be a life changing piece of software, but with a large enough install base, certainly enough to keep you in beer and copies of “How To Win Friends” for the foreseeable future.

As for your comment: Thank you. With your shortsighted approach to public relations and community building, I’ll take that as a compliment. If you want people to love you, you shouldn’t be a developer.