Updated to version 1.1.

You can now set *an approximate* number of total max links per page.

It is approximate because the mod will make links until it reaches the end of the post, VM, or social group message where it meets the page max number of links.

Wow... for a list like that please confirm you are using "Match whole word only" is YES and "Case Sensitive?" is yes. That should prevent any issues.

I did notice the mod is not matching "S&B" so I will look into that issue.

If you're still having an issue please link me to a post on your site showing the problem.

Affirmative, both are set to YES.

Forgive me, I thought the whole MOD had ceased working, but after looking again some links are ok. Here's one that is not: http://tinyurl.com/3zdnnkq I expected to see Sunrise Medical with a LINK, but it's not.:confused:

I did try removing the S&B reference (and link), but it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Skimlinks uses two methods of operation - the Javascript and a plugin. We use the plugin.
I have a concern that the plugin might clash with this mod.

I've taken my long-listing (seen in my post above) and began cutting it in down until I can narrow in on some culprits...

EDIT: I turned it ON for ALL Forums and it seems to be functioning properly. LOOKs like a(nother) case of User Error.:o I am carefully adding more WORDS/LINKS back in, but do not expect to see any more problems. SORRY BOP5.

No problem. thanks for the update, glad it is working.

It looks like I'll need to do an update for it to work with ampersands (&) since S&B doesn't seem to be working for me. Curious if you can see if it's working for you.

Also I'm going to download the skimlinks plugin and confirm one way or the other if the mods will work together in plugin mode. In Javascript mode it will work for sure.

I added the S&B entry back in, but you are correct. For some reason, it doesn't show up as a link. To my knowledge, this is the only entry that's not working now. See http://www.recumbentriders.org/forum...ead.php?p=5128 for an example.

Spinball, are you talking about the "SkimWords" feature of SkimLinks? If so it sounds like it does pretty much the same thing as this mod.

Unfortunately it would seem without a Skimlinks account I can't do much testing.

I hope you consider testing the mod. This mod makes no changes to the database so disabling or removing it will immediately undo any changes it makes to posts.

If there is a conflict it may be a fairly easy fix such as changing the execution order of the plugins.

Yeah I pasted all your words and links into my test site and only S&B is not linking, I'm sure it's a special character issue, I will work on it and have a fix soon I expect.

Quick Question...

In the post at http://tinyurl.com/3kptwls the fifth line down ends by saying: He rides a TerraTrike by WizWheels.

WizWheelz is one of my words, but it doesn't show up as a LINK in this case. Is that because I have Match Whole Words Only set to YES -and- there is a period following the word in this case?

Your list of keyword was Wizwheelz with a "Z" - that post is Wizwheels with an "S."

Whole words will work with periods, exclamation points, spaces, new lines- basically any normal punctuation that would end a word.

adwade - I have figured out the "S&B" issue is because the & is being turned into the HTML code for an "&."

I will update the mod, probably tomorrow, but for now if you want change your keyword:

to

And it should link S&B as expected. :up:

Updated to Version 1.2

Fixed bug when ampersand (&) and other special HTML characters were used in keywords. Keywords with these characters (ex: S&B) will work as expected.

Another couple of points.
We would want some transparency to our visitors. Every time a link is added, we would want some kind of indication of that. Otherwise people whose posts have been changed will complain that it will look like they posted the link and therefore endorse it.
Could we have a title attribute of something like
?

Also it would be nice if we could track the number of added links and clicks some how.
My ad guy suggested inserting a 1x1 pixel also.

Have you considered any of these ideas?

I figured the issue of having links added to posts should be told to the users by way of an announcement and/or forum rules noting that the forum has a policy of auto-linking certain keywords and users should understand some links may be added to their posts. If you want to list your keywords or such that is up to you.

If your're using skimwords they should already be used to this.

The custom CSS option allows you to make links generated by this mod look different than ordinary user-added links so that could help reduce confusion too.

I suppose I could add an option to append a line to any post altered by this mod something like "For your convenience some keywords in this post have been auto-linked." - Obviously something you could edit.

But the tracking of links would involve edits to the database and that was never something I was intending to do with this mod. May I add it one day- possibly- but it likely will not be anytime soon.

Adding a spot for a 1-pixel gif would only help track if someone was willing to make a separate gif for each keyword. It could be done but does anyone really want to go through that much trouble? And it would only show how many times a link was displayed, would be of no help tracking clicks.

New in 1.3: Added optional notice on posts with links and associated phrase.

You can now choose to display a custom notice in posts, PMs, visitor messages, and social group posts to alert users that keywords have automatically been turned into links.

To edit this notice use the Phrase Manager and edit the GLOBAL phrase: bop5_wordlinks_note.
HTML code is allowed in phrases. {1} will be replaced with the number of keywords linked in a post. Its use in the phrase is optional.

Great Work!!!! : D

I have a suggestion but do not know if it will be very difficult to program
Registered users can enable or disable "Word Links" from your profile?
That would be perfect.

It would require you as admin to make a custom profile field but the logic would be pretty easy to program in the mod, I just don't know how many admins would like to give the choice to disable- would defeat the purpose of the mod.

But I will try and work it into the next update.

Ok, Thanks!! : D

I think registered users may not want to see the links and I think is very good for them to have the possibility to enable or disable the mod.

BUG-FIX!

I noticed today that the option to "Match Whole Words Only" was being ignored and upon investigation I see it has been broken since version 1.0. (It was working in the Betas). I have fixed this issue and released version 1.31.

I am also well into development of an option to manage links and keywords via a csv datafile, so it's easier to keep track of than the two boxes currently in use. I expect to have this newer version out in the next day or two.

Big update today... Two new features.

1) For those of you with a lot of keywords and links it's hard to keep track of which keyword goes to which link in the two separate boxes you can now put all your keywords and links together in one .csv (comma separate value) data file and upload it and the mod will pull its info from the data file instead of the two boxes.

In addition you can use advanced features if using the datafile such as setting the "target" and "rel" attributes for each link individually if you choose. If you don't specify a target or a rel value the mod will use whatever setting you have chosen in the mod settings.

A sample datafile is included and an example is here:
You can make a csv file in a text editor or use a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel and "Save As" a common CSV file.

The second new feature is integration with an optional Custom User Profile Field. If you make a custom profile field to enable users to turn automatic word linking on or off you can tell this mod which field number you created and the mod will disable itself for anyone who turns it off. (By default it's on.) Full instructions on how to make a custom user profile field is included in the mod instructions.

A separate How-To make a compatible csv datafile is also included in the mod .zip fie.

THANXX again. This is working just M-a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s!

Great Work!!!!
Thanks!!!

I imagine not many people use the HTML "alt" image tag with vBulletin, but I do with my class newsletters, which go back for nine years. Word Links breaks the image if the alt tag one of the auto-linked words. For example, "homework" is automatically linked. If I have an image with "homework" in the alt tag (and I do, every week), here's what I get: X (broken image) homework3.gif" alt="homework"> (homework is a link)

Not a big deal, really. It's really a great product. Thanks!

I know most people don't use alt in their images in vBulletin, but actually this mod should work even if they do. I just checked your site (the one in your profile) and found this example link in one of your posts (by viewing the HTML source)

The problem is that isn't a valid xhtml img element though it works on browsers just fine... the proper tag should look like:

I assume you're using some type of Mod or BB Code to produce those images. If you edit it to put the proper xhtml closing (the "space, followed by the slash, followed by the closing square-bracket) or " />" this mod will recognize it as an xhtml <img> tag and ignore all keywords inside of it be it filename or alt code.

Thanks for the tip! The problem is I've been using that kind of sloppy coding for the past ten or eleven years, but I think I might be able to use the vB replacement variable manager to change them in bulk.

Are you using a BBCode? If so it would be a simple fix and work on all past images as well. If it is a BB Code paste the replacement text into a post and I can update it for you.

I'm using straight HTML in the public forums (nobody else but me and a special kid account can post in public). Many of the tags were put in by my students, who help write the newsletter.

OK gotcha...

I am far, far from an expert, but I'm wondering if this would work:

Take: ">
Replace " />

It might but it may cause other problems with other tags... also I think the replacement variable is run after all other mods so it wouldn't help in this case.

Ideally you'd need some type of search and replace on your database using a regular expression to find your old <img> tags and update them to xhtml <img> tags....

But I wouldn't get involved in something risking your database if things don't go well.

Another solution but not ideal would be a plugin that runs on postbit_display_complete with executon order 1 (so it runs before this mod) to change your html <img> tags to xhtml <img> on the fly. But it would really depend on how consistent your existing tags were entered. Is it always src="" before alt="" for example? if they were inconsistent this wouldn't work.

With fifth graders, not much is consistent. :)

You are right...too much risk. So far, the "homework" tag is the only problem. I can simply use "hw" when I want to link to our homework page. Thanks for your help today and thanks for a great product!

Wow this is fantastic. I was just looking for whether VBSEO could do something like this and stumbled across this thread. Many thanks for releasing this!

I want to use this for amazon but can't figure out how to structure the link to my affiliates program :confused:


:(

A basic affiliate link to Amazon looks like:

Change my affiliate code in red to your own code.

Hi, congrats for this addon, works great in my forum.

But have one problem with images. Using the default 'Insert image' button from vbulletin, if I try to insert an image whit a name linked whit this addon, I have this problem:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/07/5.jpg

The word linked is 'dmt' , and the image name is 'dmt22.jpg' . How can I solve it?

thanks :)

I'll need a link to that post.

here you are http://www.todocircuito.com/foro/sho...865#post105865

Thanks in advance :)

Thanks... But please disable the mod or take dmt out so I can see what it looks like normally.

Nevermind- I see the issue- you're image resizer mod is conflicting.

You can fix this by editing the three plugins:

Word Linker Group Message
Word Linker Postbit
Word Linker Visitor Messages


In EACH find the line:
And replace it with:
In a future version I will include an option for a custom regex to take care of special circumstances like yours.

Man, thousand of thanks, 'miles de gracias' in spanish. Now it?s woriking fine ;)

Of course, nominated to motm, i love this addon