Miscellaneous Hacks - Word Links FREE (Turn words into links) by BOP5

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Thank You for voting this June 2011 Mod of the Month!!!

The purpose of this mod is to automatically turn keywords or phrases you specify into links. You set a list of keywords and a list of URLs to link them to and let the mod do the rest.

This is the FREE Version. It allows you to auto-link words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups

The GOLD Version is available at Qapla.com It allows auto-linking words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups
• Picture Comments
• Blog Entries
• Blog Comments
• CMS Articles
• CMS Comments

Live Demo at Qapla.com.

There are many options as you can see in the screenshot. You can choose to include the "nofollow" attribute, choose to open links in a new tab, choose to match whole words only or not, specify specific forums, enable in social groups and visitor messages, and disable completely for selected usergroups or styles.

Version: 2.0

• New in 0.91: Limit the number of links created per keyword per post.
• New in 0.92: Use CSS to customize the look of links created by this mod.
• New in 0.93: Linked words now retain the same case as they were originally typed. Also a new option to specify whether linked words are case sensitive or not.
• New in 0.935: Fixed conflict with VBSEO and possibly other mods. Upgrade if you are having problems.
• New in 0.94: Made the "Custom CSS" an option to prevent unnecessary HTML if not needed.
• New in 0.95: Enable or disable in PMs.
• New in 0.96: Should fix conflicts with AME3 mod, restores same case change in 0.93.
• New in 1.0: Additional code to prevent unintended linking. No new features.
• New in 1.1: Set approximate number of max links per page.
• New in 1.2: Fixed bug when Ampersands (&) were used in keywords.
• New in 1.3: Added optional notice on posts with links and associated phrase.
• New in 1.5: Two new features: 1) You can now use a csv data file for your links (and advanced features) if you prefer and 2) You can use a custom user profile field to allow users to disable the mod individually if you choose.
• New in 1.5a: Updated German language file thanks to Igel1.
• New in 1.6: Fixed bug if keyword was part of thread title and thread title was a link in the post. (VB4 Only)
• New in 1.7: Added field to extend the regex easily through the mod settings. Included fix for bold/font color links.
• New in 2.0: Rewritten more efficient code. Added option to disable by styleid. Added GOLD version.

Example... If someone types:

"I bought it on Amazon."

This mod can auto convert it to:

"I bought it on Amazon."

And you would presumably put your Amazon affiliate code, if you had one, in the link.

NOTE: This mod does not alter the actual posts or the database. Disabling or uninstalling the mod will remove all links.

There is a VB3 and VB4 version of this mod, please download the correct version.

Full instructions in zip file.

Notice:
Since the following words are used in HTML tags I would avoid them as keywords:
style, div, class, pre, href, img, html, meta, name, rel, nofollow, and link.

I would also avoid any single letter or two letter keywords since they could easily be used accidentally in places you weren't intending.

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[CThiessen]

How,
many Thanks, great Idea to let the User the choose if he like to see the Links or not.
This point i cant?t test (lost my User CP during the Update to 4.1.4 )

But already test with the external File, working pretty god.

Thanks
Christian

[BirdOPrey5]

For those wondering about performance when using the data file- in my test with almost 100 keywords and 200 links in a post the page generation on VB 4.0.8 was at most 2/100th of a second more when using the data file as opposed to the internal settings.

[iglow]

this is the best plugi never, people vote on it

[8thos]

Wow this is far superior to modifications like skimlinks and viglinks!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Wow this is far superior to modifications like skimlinks and viglinks!

I thank you for the kind words but I want to stress this is NOT a real alternative to skimlinks or viglinks... However it will work well if you have either of those installed.

The good thing about viglinks/skimlinks is you don't have to sign up for 12000+ affiliate accounts with 12000 different merchants.

Also if a user gives a link to a specific amazon item say, this mod will ignore it- where as the others will still turn it into an affiliate link.

Plus the skimlinks javascript and viglink will also turn any links created by this mod into affiliate links.

I would strongly suggest running skim or viglinks in addition to this mod.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I thank you for the kind words but I want to stress this is NOT a real alternative to skimlinks or viglinks... However it will work well if you have either of those installed.

The good thing about viglinks/skimlinks is you don't have to sign up for 12000+ affiliate accounts with 12000 different merchants.

Also if a user gives a link to a specific amazon item say, this mod will ignore it- where as the others will still turn it into an affiliate link.

Plus the skimlinks javascript and viglink will also turn any links created by this mod into affiliate links.

I would strongly suggest running skim or viglinks in addition to this mod.

Damn. Okay. I'll turn skimlinks back on.

[ceho]

Hi, I am wondering if this might conflict with enabled acronym expansions of vBSEO? Is it possible to run both or is it better to disable the vBSEO feature?

And may I ask one question that might sound stupid to you? What exactly is the SEO benefit and advantage of Word Links? Sorry for being a little unexperienced on this field ;-). And thanks a lot!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by ceho

Hi, I am wondering if this might conflict with enabled acronym expansions of vBSEO? Is it possible to run both or is it better to disable the vBSEO feature?

And may I ask one question that might sound stupid to you? What exactly is the SEO benefit and advantage of Word Links? Sorry for being a little unexperienced on this field ;-). And thanks a lot!

I don't have VBSEO so I can't test it. I would try it and see what happens. Unless you used the same keyword as an acronym I don't think there would be a problem.

Honestly I don't know what the SEO benefit is that's why I didn't mention any SEO benefit in the main post. I made this so people could include affiliate links to bring in some money when people buy stuff by following these links mostly. SEO benefit, if any, is secondary.

[Igel1]

Thanks for update BirdOPrey5,

here are the German language file for version VB4v15

[BirdOPrey5]

Thank you all for voting this June 2011 Mod of the Month!!

Igel1 - Thank you for the language update, will update the install file ASAP.