Major Additions - AutoLinker Lite, keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 and 4.x, and vbcms

AutoLinker Lite is a keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 upwards, 4.x, and vBulletin CMS. It allows the webmaster to configure particular words or phrases as keywords, which will then be automatically linked when they appear in user posts. As well as being hyperlinked, keywords can have pop-over info boxes, as in the image below:



These info boxes are highly configurable (colours, borders, fade in/fade out effect etc), and can contain html - meaning you can embed images, videos etc. Balloon-style boxes are also supported.

AutoLinker Lite has a flexible permissions system, allowing you to control which forums a given link appears in, and which usergroups it is visible too.

This is a free version of a commercial product, and contains a limit on the number of AutoLinks that you may create. Other than that, it is fully functional.

Please note that AutoLinks in the CMS do not work in vBulletin 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. 4.0.2 and upwards are fine.

A couple more images to hopefully whet your appetite:

Some of the things you can do with HTML:



Admin control panel:

[dihuta]

Any idea when version 2 will be released?
Still hoping Direct Linking option for SEO keywords.

[bigtree]

Originally Posted by kermit2

We issued you a refund because you asked for one; and since you are no longer a customer, you're not actually entitled to be using the software - so we'd appreciate it if you installed it. That's also the reason why your posts have gone unanswered (if you browse the forum you'll notice that yours are the only unanswered posts).

I asked for a refund because you were avoiding helping and dealing with code issues. Your software has been removed because it is full of bugs!!!

I'm making it public that your business practice and software is far from stable. You didn't help resolve my issues because you can't and to shut me up, you gave me a refund and bailed.

Please note... I have no intention to be hurtful towards you, however, I think its my responsibility to question you and to warn others on what I've experienced with your software. You ran instead of helping. You are clearly not 100% upfront here.
You are still taking money from people like this software is stable, when it definitely is not!

For others looking into an autolinking add-on, be very warned that this software caused a permission bridge to the admin section of vbulletin 4. It appears to give registered members admin permissions for some unknown. This is a very serious bug on top of the additional issues.

They/he is winging it here. They have a really cool thing started, but because (it is a one man show) I'm assuming this is why he is not able to keep up with vbulletin upgrades or deal with code issues in a timely manner.

Investing in this will only cause you grief.
You have been warned.

That being said...

I wish you the very best, truly, however, wouldn't it serve you better if you actually made an effort to improve your Mod rather than acting that way you are? Wouldn't it prove to the VB community that you are truly interested in improving this instead of telling me to stop using your product lol. Your response to me here only proves you are not at all interested in finding out why I am having trouble and how to improve your mod so that everyone will have a safer and better autolinking mod? You are defensive.
I asked for help many times and you avoided me.

What do you have to say about this now? You don't answer questions to your software unless you buy it. But you don't support it if there are problems.

You are full of it.:down:

[Bankfodder]

Well we've been using this mod for over two years now in vB3 as well and we have seen no evidence of this security problem which you have identified. No one else seems to either.

Are you able to give better information as to how to replicate the problem or how one can recognise the issue?
Thanks

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by bigtree

For others looking into an autolinking add-on, be very warned that this software caused a permission bridge to the admin section of vbulletin 4. It appears to give registered members admin permissions for some unknown. This is a very serious bug on top of the additional issues.

This is completely untrue, but if you're going to make serious allegations please provide some evidence.

This wouldn't be the first time you've claimed AutoLinker was at fault, only to suddenly change your mind and decide something else was the problem. If you recall, within a few hours of you first installing AutoLinker, you were on our forums kicking up a fuss that it didn't work. You later decided that another mod was actually the problem.

Your hot-headed attitude is the reason we were so happy to give you a refund. When something didn't work as expected you would become aggressive and confrontational, and we wasted a lot of time trying to deal with non-existent bugs.

The quote above illustrates this point. I'm 100% confident that there is no such bug allowing standard users to gain admin permissions, and you seem a bit vague on the details. Is this because you've jumped to conclusions again? Again, please provide something to support your claim, or retract it.

By the way, how are you still managing to find 'bugs' in software that you've uninstalled? I can tell that it's still installed on your forum, despite us asking you to uninstall it over 2 weeks ago (because we had issued you with a refund)

[bigtree]

come on kids, serious... look at you now. One shill added to the equation. I rest my case

Your software has problems, PLAIN AND SIMPLE! It was installed on a very well tuned server with vb4 and no template mods. I do have vbseo installed but I disabled it to see if it was conflicting and it wasn't.

To help you, The more links I added to it, this more problems occurred to where it finally caused posts to become blank.
It ABSOLUTELY caused security issues as well and you think I'm making this up.... Good luck, you'll need it.

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[kermit2]

Well yes, I do think you're making it up actually, because you're refusing to provide any details. Also, if this security issue does exist, why do you still have AutoLinker installed on your server? Surely you'd have removed it straight away

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by bigtree

come on kids, serious... look at you now. One shill added to the equation. I rest my case

What a couple of idiots.

I'm surprised a moderator hasn't intervened by now ....

Shill?

The Internet is full of folks like you, who lack the courage to do anything except publish unsubstantiated claims and get off on belittling others to make themselves feel better.

I'm just an old veteran well into my 60's, so I don't need to get into faked postings to try and demonstrate my virility on-line. If you'd care to have to leave me a phone number via PM and not hide behind insults using an anonymous Internet pseudonym in public postings, I'd be happy to call you at my expense to take this discussion off line where it belongs.

The commercial software works fine for us and the author has diligently addressed any and all problems we reported. :up:

End of message ...

Regards,
Doug

[bigtree]

You know guys, I'm not your enemy here. I don't know why you are acting like this and have been from the very beginning. Its really bizare and very destructive for you.

As far as backing up my claim. Like I said in the beginning, that something isn't right and could you help. You simply said to me, yes, it isn't working correctly and thats it lol?
I offered the opportunity to have access to my site, to see if you could find something. I asked you if you had tested it with vbseo and that possibly there was a conflict there. And then nothing for days...

I mentioned that if you are not able to help, then I would like a refund, BUT... I would rather find out if we could get it working. That I had invested a lot of time and would like this to work. ''The next day I received a refund. hmmm?

This is really childish going back and forth like this. Support should be support, not defensive like this. It is to your advantage to find out why things don't work so you can help ongoing people using your software, don't you think so?

As far as me using your software STILL! if you look at our site: http:recording.org you will see that we are using vaultwiki 's autolinks that works very well, and I might add, you should take a look at for both how it works and how professional their support is.
If people have issues there, they are kind and respond respectfully.

Good luck, I really wish you well. You have a good thing going here.

Peace

[Leo777]

I just wanted to confirm that the developer is very helpful. I've contacted him with a number of small problems (mostly due to my own non-standard VB and server settings) and he's responded quickly with solutions.

Before purchasing, I read this entire thread from start to finish, and occasionally the developer's response was delayed a little (eg. a week) but he has offered assistance with almost every problem, responding to bug reports and acting on user suggestions. I believe if you have enough customers then eventually one is going to be both dissatisfied and outspoken. I can't say whether the claims of the customer above are valid or not, but I believe if you read the entire thread you get a much better understanding that the developer is in fact very helpful, as has been my personal experience.

I am not a shill, I chose to write this in order to balance the recent negativity a little since I believe it has been undeserved. This product has features that I couldn't find in any other mod (at least in any other working supported 4.x mod) so I'm glad it worked for my needs - thanks developer! :up:

[DNN]

the autolinker is not working