[New Plugin] Alexify

One more note about using your plugin, I changed my theme to something called Authurium Mix and also to the default WordPress theme and the results were the same– the thumbnails work in all cases except where the link is going to open in a new window. I tried it in a theme called Notebook and another one called “Sharepoint like” or something like that and it didn’t work at all in either of those. I think those themes are probably missing some elements or have disabled some elements that were present in the main default WordPress theme.
Whatever, I just thought you might like to know. So Jakarta theme isn’t the issue, it’s probably just one line of code or a tag somewhere that is preventing this from working just right.

Richard

Richard,

2.3 is now available
https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify

There’s a zip file now linked from the project page.

The issues I worked on this morning were:

target=”_blank”:
This now seems to work.

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This now seems to work now.

Can you test and let me know if it works for you now?

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Hey Cal,
You’re a genius!
OK, Alexify is working great! It works when the link opens in a new window on both Internet Explorer 6.x and on Firefox, on the PC. It is also working fine on our Macs which run Safari latest version and Panther OSX.

There is one way the thumbnail doesn’t work, and maybe this makes sense: If there is a “tool tip” or title the Alexa image won’t show up. Probably because it is replacing the tool tip in the first place. So, here’s an example:
<p><a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">https://www.blogger.com/</a></p>
That works fine. However this one doesn’t show a thumbnail:
<p><a title="Go to Wilson's site" href="https://www.wilsonhurst.com/" target="_blank">https://www.wilsonhurst.com/</a></p>
That will not show the Alexa image. . . which is fine, since the image gives the viewer more information about the link in the first place and probably doesn’t need a callout.

You might also include in your instructions something similar to the following paragraph:

If your link to a domain website does not appear as a pop-up graphic but you are sure that other links on your page are working correctly with the Alexify plugin, this means that Alexa.com hasn’t taken a thumbnail screenshot of the site. You can remedy this yourself!
1. Go to https://www.alexa.com and click on the Traffic Rankings tab at the top of the screen.
2. Type in the URI of the website and click “Get Traffic Details.”
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Correct errors and omissions in this listing.”
4. In the middle of the next page, click “Update Thumbnail Image of “whateveryoursitenameis.com” .
A message will come up stating that Alexa will visit the site and make a thumbnail within the next 48 hours.
This really works. My site now has it’s own thumbnail . . .
Thanks for all your help, Cal. This is working just fine. I think that if it were to work for a sidebar, some piece of code would have to be placed in the sidebar.php file of a template– I’m just guessing. But if it doesn’t work, that’s fine. The main issues are solved. Thanks for your very prompt addressing of these issues. What a guy!
Richard

Richard,

You are all too welcome. Thanks for the notes, the project page has been updated to reflect them:

https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify

Current Version Available is now 2.3

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Hi Cal,

My site is at seratmaya.com and I’m very keen to have Alexify runs on my blog, I’m using version 2.4 on WordPress 2.0.3. I’ve followed this discussion to see If I missed any settings and also follow your installation steps carefully on how to install it but I’m still can not make it work. Any advise?

TIA

some problem here

https://twelveseven.org

I’m not sure what’s wrong with it. I checked the code and the onmouseover tag is on each link but it won’t pop the screenshot! help?

Alexa seems to be blocking their thumbnail service. I checked the image URL, and i get 403 access forbidden. I’ve seen other chatter about this lockout since May 2006.

Is anyone anywhere getting thumbnails from Alexa now?