I've just been putting the finishing touches to the new version of Recip_Link. The main features are;

1) Staggered check option.
2) 'All at once' check (i.e it checks all the links at the same time, and doesn't stagger them).
3) 'Background' running. This uses NOHUP to run in the background of your server. Its all started from the browser in the plugin.
4) Now allows for multiple URL's to check for (i.e http://www.linkssql.net,http://linkssql.net,https://linkssql.net)
5) Cleaner coding.
6) Better readme, with mode examples of the more useful features.
7) Now gives a count of how many links tested ok, and how many were bad...i.e;

GOOD: 5
BAD: 3

There are a couple more things.. which I can't think of at the moment. I am looking for literally a couple of people to do some beta testing for this plugin. Preferably someone who already owns the plugin, as they have a general idea of what it is meant to do :)

Please email or PM if you are interested.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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As far as the actual recip url that is searched for, the default is the URL field.

If I'm right and if the link owner wants to list their home page in our link system, then for the recip plugin to confirm the recip link, the link owner must put our recip link on their home page (or whatever url they list in the URL field). Is that correct? (Sorry if I seem daft, but I admit I am)

If we, however, want to allow them to post our link on something like their "links" page, then we would build in a secondary recip_url field, where the link owner could put their link page url.

Let me know if I'm close to the bulls-eye on this.

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Yup :)


By default, yes... BUT if you set "Recip_Field" in the plugins settings to something like "recip_url" (the name of your recip URL field), it will then check that URL instead of the "URL" one :)

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Hi

Is it possible to have users submitting to selected CATEGORY only required to have a Rec_URL?
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KaTaBd

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Unfortunatly not

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Thanks, Andy.

I guess the reason I was asking is that I remember the recip mod from Links2. We had to add a recip field anyway, even it is was the same field as the URL.

Onward and upward

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Thanks anyways..
May be in the future that might be added:

Waht I want is the users ability to have their site listed with a star on a separate page (Category) if they ELECT to place a link to us on their page.
SO it is optional for them to have a Rec_link but REWARDING if they do.
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KaTaBd

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Hi. You can put an image next to links that have a recip link. Something like this should work;


Has_Priority is a field that is added by the Recip_Link plugin :)

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We have that field set to Recip_Required ---NoYes
BUT when a user submits a site it is converting it to Yes even if they do not link to us... is that a bug or is it something I am doing...
Also the Descriptio to lower case is checked to yes but it is not being converted..
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KaTaBd

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Mmm.. that does sound like a bug. I'll take a look into it :)

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I'm just about to PM you the latest version. It should be fixed :)

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I have a few suggestions

1. email notice to link owner when new recip link found - nice thankyou note (template)

2. email notice to link owner if recip link not found (template). Include recip link code in email notice to encourage recip site owner to get on the ball. This would be especially helpful in cases where a recip site owner temporarily posts the recip code, only to tear it down after a week or so (meaning, all they want is the link on your site, but not the recip on their site).

3. limited number of recip checks (auto-delete) - if recip link not found within X trials, then link is auto-deleted from db (but resets to 0 trials when found). This helps admin cuz admin could simply run the recip routine and basically let the plugin do the housecleaning - followed by email notice ("we haven't found our recip link on your site. So, we must delete yours from our site...boo-hoo.").



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Mmm... I'll have a go sometime today. Got quite a few things on my plate, that need to be done, but if I find any extra time, I'll have a go :)

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Thanks, Andy. I thought that the email notices and auto-monitoring would be pretty nice additions.

Cheers

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Another suggestion:

Check for the entire "Link String" (for lack of a better term)

What I mean is what if the other guy puts your link on their site, but they don't put any linked text on there or they don't use a distinguishig color or whatever.

Meaning, the spider finds it, but it's usefulness is kinda nill.

Instead, it would be nice if you could specify the entire text link string that the other site has to post:


This would make sure that part of the usefulness of having the recip link is preserved.

Cheers

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You should be able to just put something like that directly into the plugins setting :)

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Yeah. I was thinking the same thing. I'll give it a try and report back

Thanks

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