I installed the new version of WPRobot on a new blog.
The ebay module would not direct to ebay. Only to internal pages of my sites or sometimes to other sites.
I reinstalled an older version of WPRobot from an older blog and now everything works fine.
Thoughts?
Arnold
Could you show me an example or post some urls here that you found with the new version?
I had deleted all of the posts and installed reinstalled the last version.
Are you not seeing this anyplace else?
Arnold
I have the same problem as business guy. http://www.cannondigitalcamera.net/cannon-digital-camera/latest-cannon-digital-camera-auctions/
That looks like you have cloaking enabled in WP Robot but not set up correctly, see http://wprobot.net/blog/how-to-set-up-wp-robot-link-cloaking/
My links looked like goshtangit.
The cloaking explanation does not seem like the answer because when I re-installed the previous version of WPRobot the links worked fine.
I think it could be possible that because of a change to cloaking in 2.1 it is necessary to update your .htaccess file again. Go to your Permalinks settings, update the page without changing anything and if necessary check your .htaccess file and move the WP Robot block to the top. Could you please try that and see if it works?
I had a new install of 2.1 on a new blog.
Enabled cloaking on the new install on the new blog.
Had link problem.
Installed older version and problem went away.
I will check if there could be a bug with link cloaking in 2.1, thanks.
I reinstalled the 2.0 on the same blog and now these links here http://www.cannondigitalcamera.net/cannon-digital-camera/latest-cannon-digital-camera-auctions/ are working correctly. So its definitely something in your cloaking script. Please keep us updated!
Do we have an update on this cloaking update to 2.1?
I tested cloaking on my blogs with 2.1 again and could not find any errors or problems.
Could you describe the exact issue again please? Are only ebay links not working with cloaking? And only in 2.1 (as I see you don't have them cloaked on your blog currently)?
I can expand on this as it's the same issue i have.
it's only eBay links that don't work.
Usually, the name of the product (1st link) redirects to the story it's attached to (i have ebay links under other things like news, yahoo answers, youtube videos).
The 2nd and 3rd links (buy it now / add to watch list) don't go anywhere, they just refresh back to the same page.
My .htaccess file has wprobot rules at top.
I've updated permalinks time and time again.
It's a bug!!!
Ok I finally found the reason and a fix will be released later today.
If you want to do it yourself all you have to do is delete the lines 149-152 from ebay.php and the links will work again.
Did this ever get fixed? Right now that fix only deletes cloaking from ebay. That really isn't what we want.
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