mikegagler

Pete-

It is easier for someone on an e-Ink Kindle to type in https://amzn.to/kddeal or https://amzn.to/amazonbfriday, or remember it is a conversation with their friends, than manually typing in https://www.amazon.com/b?node=384082011&_encoding=UTF8&tag=billybobscomp-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

Seeing as how I have quite a population viewing this WordPress blog via an RSS feed on their e-Ink Kindles, it’s important to me to continue to show an amzn.to link so they can hit it with their computers vs. an e-Ink Kindle.

The page I linked to above may be showing up fine in the UK (I believe you are in the UK), but here in the USA rather than displaying amzn.to./amazonbfriday WordPress now displays the underlying Amazon URL of https://www.amazon.com/b?node=384082011&_encoding=UTF8&tag=billybobscomp-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 directly on the web site.

In other words, while you say “the URL of a link isn’t meant tobe shown on a website” in the above, that is exactly what your plugin is doing on various, but not all, WordPress pages for viewers in the USA (at least on this site). The script is changing the link text, at least on this site for USA viewers.

I wasn’t asking you to “trawl” through the website, I just asked you a question. I certainly hope you have a better day today than the one you have displayed with me.

Regards,

Michael

I’m not sure I understand your reply: I create shortlink in my original html for ease of use for the viewer and the plug-in expands the viewable portion on the website to 100 or so characters vs. only seeing a shortlink, and that’s a good thing? That’s the whole reason behind shortlinks, to make it easier for a user to hit a website.

Your plug-in isn’t doing a viaual webpage expansion on all amzn.to shortllinks, just various ones, and I assumed the plug in would do this expansion in the background. I’ll deactivate the plug-in today.