DRandy

Yes. I’m finding your replies very helpful. Gives me much to think about. Thanks for your “direction” and input. I really appreciate it.

It all makes me wonder if what I’m doing is worth my time and if I’ll ever make any money with it. I’ve been working in WordPress for about 7 years, customizing and creating what I want it to do around ideas I have but to this day, I’ve never made any money with those ideas. I’ve never had any formal training in PHP and just when I’ve struggled for months with something that should probably take a few hours coding, I get a site and concept going only to find that there is no interest.

Oh well. Thanks for your replies.

wow, that’s quit an answer – and I think alot to learn. But thanks. I appreciate it. Maybe I should approach it a different way. Something like presenting a list of categories. If the user puts in a zipcode and doesn’t find a listing for that zip, then they’ll know what they can register with.

Ok. Maybe I should use GET because all I am doing is displaying some values from the database after the user enters a zip code. Nothing more. Like I said above, everything works like it should with the action=””. I’m just not sure if that leaves it open for attacks. I’ll do more research and thanks for your help.

I’ve also tried to add the form to the function rather than through the admin “Edit Page” and from what I’ve tried, it doesn’t work. maybe I’m writing it wrong. I’m stumped.

OK. I went to the admin side “Edit Page” and added just the form using the “Text” tab. I took out the action so it’s just action=””. It works just like I want it to. But I think that means it’s open to attack.

Then I tried adding your form like you have above but that gives me a ““>” characters just before the “Enter Zip Code” label.

Then I tried a php to shortcode plugin and put the echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[“PHP_SELF”]); in a shortcode called “zipform” and tried putting action=”[zipform]” in the form. When I submit, it takes me to my home page.

What am I doing wrong?

I am using a shortcode on the page and in that function it returns all users in that zip code. So when I wrote the function I just hard coded in the zip as a variable to test out the function. Now that it’s working, I am now trying to add the form field so a user can enter the zip code value in the form.

I’m not very good a PHP so thanks for your patience.

I’m now trying to put the form in the function so the shortcode will display and do everything. This is the form I’m trying to add.

<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>">
<label>Enter Your Zip Code:</label>
<input type="text" name="zip" value="<?php return $zip;?>">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Is this all wrong? I’ve tried adding the form directly from the edit page but that doesn’t display correctly.

Ok. thanks for the help

Ok great. thanks

Sure. Doesn’t matter what type of site you have. You get

– Traffic from Pins and RePins on Pinterest
– Traffic from backlinks pointing to your blog or any type of site
– Traffic coming to the featured member’s page (from other members)
– Traffic to your site from links in the post and in the syndicated posts
– SEO and backlinks to increase your search index standings
– Traffic from the Twitter post
– And more to come

Sure it’s a new site but if it get’s going, your traffic will increase.

I’m just asking for feedback at this time.

But you can also register if you want to get going and help the concept grow but don’t expect a lot traffic right away. It will come later.

Thanks for your feedback.

[no bumping]

Found one myself. Plugin is called Bind User to Category. It still shows all Categories but no matter what they choose, it posts to that category I select.

I posted this on another forum and got remarks like . . .

“This looks and smells like a bad neighborhood.”

I don’t understand why that would be said.

Any ideas?

If anyone wants to comment, Please look at my site first and take some time to understand the system before making comments.

Thanks

Just the lack of response to this post is a good example of the lack of traction I’m getting.

People just don’t understand the potential of this.

In Search Engine Marketing, you need quality backlinks to increase your web site’s search engine position.

Please look at https://www.link5sites.com/business-services/sales-training/. This is a Content Page from the Business Services Category.

Please share your comments

Thanks

I understand that this happens with automated systems. But with my system, real people install the code on their own site just like as if you were doing a link exchange with another web site.

And the code changes with each new joining member so the footprint is always different.

Is there any one to help?

I have a custom script that uses

return @wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);

when a condition is met. Sometimes this might call for sending out over 500 emails.

I need to throttle this down below 500 so it sends say 300 this hour and then 300 next hour and so forth.

Thanks for your help.