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Since activating the plugin 2 days ago I’ve noticed a very, very large increase in the number of clicks going to the US Amazon site. Before using Amazon Link Localizer I was getting a few hundred clicks a day – the first day I used it, there were 900+ clicks. It looks like yesterday there were more than 2,000 clicks.

As much as I’d love to think that my site has suddenly become the most popular thing around, the number of clicks showing up in the Amazon dashboard doesn’t really match the amount of traffic the site is getting.

Has anyone noticed this before? Any ideas what could be causing these phantom clicks?

Looks like it’s working on my end now, I guess some of the proxies are just so slow to load things that it took more than a few seconds for the link localizer to do its thing.

I’m using Cloudflare on my site & W3TC – Cloudflare does the minifying though, so if anyone else is wondering if this will work with Cloudflare, the answer is apparently yes.

Hopefully this will get some of the international traffic converting, in which case I’ll buy you a few pints Pete.

Glad to hear you got it working. Which proxy did you have success testing it with?

Also Pete, do you have any proxies that you recommend for testing the plugin with other countries?

@bu810 – not sure if you saw my comment in the other thread, so I’ll share the tip here too.

If you’ve gotten it working, just without running W3TC, you might be able to still use W3TC – go to the Minify settings page and scroll down to the advanced options and try adding the JS file for this plugin to the section that says Never minify the following JS files:

add this to that field and W3TC should avoid minifying the file…
wp-content/plugins/amazon-affiliate-link-localizer/js/amazon_linker.min.js

Getting it working with W3TC is definitely important, since it’s one of the most used and most efficient WordPress cache plugins, with nearly 2 million downloads. It has a lot of things to configure though, which can lead people to think that it’s breaking things if it’s not configured properly. Give that suggestion a try and let me know if it works. If you need to, you can also disable minification entirely in W3TC and still have the other parts of the caching plugin continue to work.

Hey Pete, thanks for responding! I’ve tried several proxies and also had a friend in Canada test it out & they said it was still leading them to Amazon.com

I run Cloudflare & W3TC on the site but experimented with disabling both of them as well as all the other plugins to see if there was some kind of conflict. Still no luck.

A page on the site with several Amazon links is: https://goo.gl/9jUYr

To BU810 – if you’ve gotten it working, just without running W3TC, you might be able to still use W3TC – go to the Minify settings page and scroll down to the advanced options and try adding the JS file for this plugin to the section that says Never minify the following JS files:

Let me know if that works for you

I’m trying to sort out the same thing myself right now. I’ve been trying to test it using proxies in other countries, but everything just goes to the US Amazon site, even with W3TC disabled. How are you testing it for France and the UK?

Well, after bumbling around for a while I got the Post Title to style by replacing this:

if(isset($feacpost_include_post_title) && ($feacpost_include_post_title == "Yes"))

			{

				if(isset($feacpost_post_title_header) && !empty($feacpost_post_title_header))

				{$output.= '<'.$feacpost_post_title_header.' style="clear:none;">';}

				else { $output.= '<h3 style="clear:none;">';}

				$output.='<a style="text-decoration:none;" href="'.get_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';

				if(isset($feacpost_post_title_header) && !empty($feacpost_post_title_header))

				{$output.= '</'.$feacpost_post_title_header.'>';}

				else { $output.= '</h3>';}

			}

with this:

if(isset($feacpost_include_post_title) && ($feacpost_include_post_title == "Yes"))

			{
				$output.='<div';

				if(isset($feacpost_post_title_header_classname) && !empty($feacpost_post_title_header_classname)){$output.= ' class="'.$feacpost_post_title_header_classname.'"';} else { $output.= ' style="padding:5px 0;"';}

				{$output.= '<'.$feacpost_post_title_header.' style="clear:none;">';}

				$output.='<a style="text-decoration:none;" href="'.get_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';

				if(isset($feacpost_post_title_header) && !empty($feacpost_post_title_header))

				{$output.= '</'.$feacpost_post_title_header.'>';}

				else { $output.= '</h3>';}

								$output.='</div>';

			}

Not sure if I did it right – it seems to work, but PHP is not my native tongue, so if I’ve done things backwards, please feel free to correct me!

Logged in to say thanks so much for this – I was having the same problem & downloading the zip file above and uploading the new easy-fancybox files fixed the issue instantly!

The latest:

“Seems WPMU requires more resources than common WP.
As I understand it uses some internal redirections which cause the problem.
letsbewild.com/potd generates a lot of errors in system error log.
They all are related to /home/couturei/public_html/letsbewild.com/index.php
and /home/couturei/public_html/letsbewild.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php”

Looking in the error logs I am getting this:

(12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn’t create child process: /opt/suphp/sbin/suphp for /home/couturei/public_html/letsbewild.com/index.php, referer: https://www.letsbewild.com/potd/

so, it looks like it really is a memory issue. This looks like the same issue https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/hitting-hosts-500-mb-memory-usage-ram-limit?replies=35

Just heard back from them and they said “If you are not seeing your images randomly, this is because our system is limiting you for exceeding your memory limit. You will have the ability to optimize your site to prevent this error from occurring by using caching plugins, optimizing code, etc.”

In other words, a canned response they undoubtedly send to everyone without bothering to even look at the site in question. If it was a memory issue, it seems to me it wouldn’t ONLY be occurring on subdirectories of domains running MultiSite. Sigh, we’ll see what they say if they actually look at the problem.

no safe mode. I just tried doing a manual installation of WP on another add-on domain and I thought that maybe that would just do the trick, but nope. Same problem. I emailed my host, so maybe they can figure out what is going on. I’ll report back what the issue was, if I ever get it figured out…and I’ll keep checking back here to see if anyone has a brilliant fix in the meantime.

Looks good, but the load time was a bit slow for the top slideshow. I agree about the massive blue footer too – there are definitely other ways to incorporate all those keywords

Nope, no hotlink protection, and the issue only occurs on the subdirectories.

I’m stumped.

I’ve tried the default 2011 theme and the 2010 theme and get the same problem with both. Same thing on fresh installs on different add-on domains too.