Permalink breaking when added to an image/text.

Also (sorry..)

Huge spacing gaps (maybe two BR’s worth) are happening before and after every <td>.

For example this:

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:2px solid #007bc6; border-radius:5px; width:500px;display:block;" >
   <tr>
      <td align="center" valign="top">
         <a href="{BLOGLINK}"><img src="https://ibm.conres.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/conres_logo-300x79.jpg" alt="{BLOGNAME}" width="200"></a>
         <hr color="#007bc6" noshade>
         <h1 style="color:#007bc6; font-size:18px; line-height:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet',Arial,Sans-Serif;font-weight: 100;font-weight:800;">{TITLE}</h1>
         <font>{POST}</font>
      </td>
   </tr>
	</table>

Has a huge gap at the top of the email. Its like someone pressed enter 3 times before the logo appears. Does anyone know where that spacing would come from?

Ty!

@okuzero

Second issue is easier to fix, remove the line breaks from the Temaplte HTML once you are satisfied – so instead of:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Use:
<table><tr><td></td></tr></table>

@okuzero

I’ve still not figured anything out with the first issue. Are you using Subscribe2 free or the Subscribe2 HTML (paid) version?

@mattyrob

Nice to you meet you! I have seen your help on here a lot (thank you for your time).

I am only using Subscribe2 free. It’s odd, because basically I want to do the same thing I am doing to {BLOGLINK}. That elements will allow an image to link (without showing the actual URL, like the above images). But {PERMALINK} breaks right after the 1st quotation mark after href=”

I apologize if my explaining is a little rough, I am somewhat new to WP.

I hope this is not against the rules (if so I will remove), but here is my full code:

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:2px solid #007bc6; border-radius:5px; width:500px;display:block;" >
   <tr>
      <td align="center" valign="top" cellspacing="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
        <div style="text-decoration:none !important;"><font style="color:#007bc6 !important; font-size:17px; line-height:22px; font-family:'Trebuchet',Arial,Sans-Serif;font-weight: 800;">{TITLE}</font></div>
         <font style="color:#000000; font-size:14px; line-height:18px; font-family:'Trebuchet',Arial,Sans-Serif;font-weight: 100;">{POST}</font>
      </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#007BC6" cellspacing="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
         <font style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:18px; line-height:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet',Arial,Sans-Serif;font-weight:800;">View The Post Here:</font>
         {PERMALINK}
      </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td cellspacing="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-size:0.7em;">
         <font>You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted.</font>
      </td>
   </tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="{BLOGLINK}"><img src="https://www.marketingsherpa.com/images/TSL_Logo.gif" alt="{BLOGNAME}" width="200"></a></td></tr>
</table>

However, I saw a post that said that {PERMALINK} anchor option is only available through the paid version (if that is even related). From this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/link-color-in-html-template?replies=8

I found the above post when I was trying to figure out how to style the {TITLE} (like font color specifically). And also how to style the link color for {PERMALINK}. Both I have no had success styling unfortunately (was gonna be a question but the link breaking was a little more important).

@okuzero

Okay, I figured it out, Subscribe2 is already creating a hyperlink with the {PERMALINK} keyword in the code. The following is in the substitute() function in the class-s2-core.php file. I think that’s why I created the {PERMAURL} keyword in the paid version.

$link = '<a href="' . $this->get_tracking_link( $this->permalink ) . '">' . $this->get_tracking_link( $this->permalink ) . '</a>';

Options you have:
1/ Don’t hyperlink in your template
2/ Have the plugin code on that line above (and re-apply the hack after each update)
3/ Get Subscribe2 HTML and use {PERMAURL}
4/ Write a little code to use the ‘s2_custom_keywords’ filter as documented in the plugin API to create your own {PERMAURL} keyword (or similar)

@mattyrob

Thank you very much! The spacing issue is solved (removed the breaking/ formatting of the HTML) – Much Appreciated!

I am working on resolving the {PERMALINK} answer you just suggested (will update once tested).

@mattyrob

I apologize quick question. I was going with Option 2 to test it out. So, I went into the class-s2-core.php and found the code:

$link = "<a href=\"" . $this->get_tracking_link($this->permalink) . "\">" . $this->get_tracking_link($this->permalink) . "</a>";

I see some of the spacing/coding is a bit different and I replaced it with your above code:

$link = '<a href="' . $this->get_tracking_link( $this->permalink ) . '">' . $this->get_tracking_link( $this->permalink ) . '</a>';

I know I would have to update after every update. But was the process correct, or did I just miss what you meant completely (sry if so)?

Here is what I see after doing the above (just that part):
https://www.tslovesdesign.com/BradyURL/VTP3.JPG

Here is my HTML (formatting removed due to the spacing fix):

<table><tr><td align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#007BC6"><a href="{PERMALINK}"><img src="https://ibm.conres.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ViewThePost.jpg" width="138px" alt="ViewBlogPost"></a></td></tr></table>

Ty!

@okuzero

In hacking the code you need to take the HTML out of that line so change:
$link = "<a href=\"" . $this->get_tracking_link($this->permalink) . "\">" . $this->get_tracking_link($this->permalink) . "</a>";

To something like:
$link = $this->get_tracking_link($this->permalink);

@mattyrob

It.. Worked! =)

Man you are probably tired of answering questions.. But, I could hug you.

Thank you for all your help. If I can return the favor any way (maybe social share a site or service of your, rate you some how on here, like a page, ..etc) just let me know.

Regards,
-okuzero

@okuzero

Hugs will do just fine – glad you have it working ??

@mattyrob

Marked as resolved.

=) !!!