mungbean

Did you figure out how to do this?

The plugin page FAQ section mentions an “uploadpath” attribute but I’m not sure how or where to do that?

I tried changing the “base directory” in settings, with my desired upload directory location, but that didn’t affect it.

Thanks!

Thanks, Nebu. I will look into Zapier.

Out of curiosity, does Forminator integrate with any WP CRM plugin out of the box?

Understandable, and having the VLP as a “permanent snapshot” makes sense as it would keep API request quota at a reasonable level. One way to improve this, short of changing that paradigm, would be providing a method of refreshing a VLP from the admin side, without needing to delete and recreate/insert the VLP just to update. But I’m sure there’s plenty on the dev roadmap. Either way, any integration between the two plugins is a win.

Are there plans to support a “internal” search/autocomplete for external VLPs? Some way to search for “internal WP” links (like those from Easy Affiliate, ThirstyAffiliate etc.)?

Also, to followup, I tested ThirstyAffiliates with VLP again, and it was in fact able to generate an external VLP using the link destination URL, while still using the cloaked URL on the frontend. So it’s like PrettyLinks in functionality. I copy-pasted the cloaked URL into the external VLP and it seemed to work. The aforementioned autocomplete for external VLPs would be great in this case.

Lastly, on a side note, would it be possible to change the internal/external droplist in the VLP widget to a radio button? And perhaps be able to set a default link type in VLP admin settings?

And thanks, I’ll take a look at Lasso too, I was unaware of it.

Thanks and understandable.

As I am not needing the TS editor widgets for my use case, it’s not a big issue having them not load with my blocker enabled. I am trying to use the TS cloaked links in Visual Link Preview.

I tried it again, and it did what you described (as desired), putting the cloaked TA link in the VLP widget as an external link, did generate the VLP preview of the destination link, while still displaying/using the cloaked link on the front end.

I did test changing the destination link for the existing slug, cleared the cache, and it still seems to be pulling in the previous destination link data for the VLP preview, but the actual destination link is the new one. SO it appears either VLP is caching the preview data with the slug, rather than retrieving the new destination link info for the preview.

Is there a way to automatically update the VLPs if an existing slug has the destination link changed, without having to go through each instance of the VLP to delete/create the VLP again?

Thanks!

I’ve been testing VLP with ThirstyAffiliates (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/) and PrettyLinks (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/pretty-link/).

With ThirstyAffiliates, inserting a cloaked link in the VLP editor widget as an external link, functions like Easy Affiliates, in that it is unable to retrieve the external link destination preview data, and rather displays the cloaked TA link. Naturally, you cannot search for TA links via the internal link autocomplete field too.

While with PrettyLinks, inserting a cloaked link in the VLP editor widget as an external link, it is able to retrieve the external link destination preview data, while still using the cloaked link URL. But, updating the same cloaked link in the PL admin doesn’t seem to automatically update the VLPs where the cloaked link has been used (aka same cloaked link URL, but different link destination). It seems like VLP is caching the previous cloaked link destination.

Is it true that to affect changes to a VLP, the VLP in the content needs to be manually updated instance by instance?

It seems like there’s a capability gap in the link manager plugin ecosystem, and since you offer both Easy Affiliate and VLP, it’d make sense to integrate the two, to make a powerful combo with:
– cloaked external links in VLPs
– automatically (cascading) updating links (cloaked or uncloaked) in VLPs (maybe VLP/link scanner)

Can these capabilities be done “simply” by adding the EAFL button/filter to the external link option of the VLP widget?

Thanks again!

Thanks for the heads up. Yes, it was Ublock Origin, disabling it did allow the widgets to load in the editor.

As I’d prefer to keep running my blockers etc. what’s the likelihood that the plugin folder will be renamed or some other remedy implemented, in future releases?

I see. That makes sense. As it currently stands, in my use case the VLP display for external links is more critical than link management from Easy Affiliate. I hope the two plugins can be integrated at some point in the near feature.

In the meantime, are you aware of any link manager plugins that would play nicely with VLP and external links?

Thanks again.

Thanks, I’ve just started experimenting with Easy Affiliate and VLP. It took some tinkering, but it looks like in order to use the VLP widget (in the classic editor, in my case, a PODs custom post type) with Easy Affiliate, you need to use “internal link” and locate the link that way (by affiliate link name).

Unfortunately, this styles the VLP with the parent website, and not the style of the actual link destination (if link is external). Is that because it’s treating the VLP styling as “internal”?

How can I use VLP and Easy Affiliate with external links and VLP styling?

Also, I am testing the link update and management capability with VLPs. Specifically, I am using the same link but toggling the cloaking on and off and resaving the link, and it appears that URL displayed when hovering over the link on the test page, the cloaking/URL doesn’t change after a page refresh. This seems to defeat the purpose of centralizing link management if I need to manually make changes to the page or VLP on that page.

Please advise. This seems promising, but there are some kinks.

Thanks for getting back to me, Scott.

It looks like the default image is displayed when editing because I have been editing my existing pages (bone-stock WP pages, non-custom post types) that have the default image automatically inserted after activating the plugin, to remove the featured image from some, and when I click “remove featured image” and click update, the default image gets reapplied. I can’t remove it and save the page.

Is this a bug?

Thanks, I did a cursory search for “link manager” prior to creating this support thread, and I did see a couple of the same plugins in your search query.

Do you have any specific plugin recommendations, as there are several similar sounding plugins, that would meet my need?

Thanks for the plugin recommendation, I will look into it. If my understanding of your other plugin is correct, I’d only need to “register” the link once with the plugin, and then reference elsewhere.

And when you say there’s no VLP integration currently, do you mean there’s no way to select/insert the “registered” link? Or would “registered” links entered, even If I manually type in the link in the URL field in the VLP widget, it will not “recognize” the “registered” link such that if I make a change to the link from the affiliate-plugin admin, the URL in the associated VLPs around the website, would not automatically update?

Are there plans to integrate it with VLP?

Thanks!

An idea would also be able to show the API status in the VLP widget itself. With an external link, after it’s entered and then queried, the remaining fields just remain blank (if the API has be exceeded), and since sometimes it takes a couple seconds or more to get a API reply.

There can be confusion between whether it’s an API-exceeded issue or just waiting for a reply; so it’d be great to see it there in the widget, when that is the case.

Thanks for the plugin recommendation. I installed the plugin and set the default image, but it doesn’t seem to be affecting my Pod post types. I still need to manually set the image for each instance.

The default image does appear selected in Settings > Media, but not in each Pod post form.

I created a support thread on the plugin’s page.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/doesnt-work-with-pods-posts/

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by mungbean.

I was not aware of the Microlink API tier limits, would it be possible to display a Microlink API reset-timer or count, based on tier, in the plugin?