its not working in my site sunipeyk.com. Do other plugins could effect?
Kelson
· 1 year ago
Hello! I just gave this a spin and I like it, but I ran into a couple of problems getting it to work.
1. Most critically, the plugin requires write permission to its js subdirectory or to js/data.js (which does not exist in the archive). A lot of hosts do not allow write access by the web server account except on a case-by-case basis, so this needs to be included in the installation directions. 2. The PHP file doesn't have a close tag. Either that or I got an incomplete file from the archive. 3. All the feed links in the default entries are preset to point to your feed, rather than picking up the feel URL of the local blog. So I had to go through and change them all, one by one. This should either pick up the URL from WP settings, or should be mentioned in the directions.
Anyway, once I fixed those issues, it worked great, except for one more problem: If it's set to show on every post, and the landing page has more than one post -- say, it's the home page, or an archive page -- the notice appears for each and every post, all using the first post's URL. Unfortunately that makes it impractical to use on one of my sites which has been getting a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon to the home page lately.
Study Babes
· 1 year ago
I wanted to only show the message once, at the very top of my posts (between the header, and the title of the first post). So I disabled the "show in every post" option and then put {referrer_detector} in index.php, but all it does is actually show "referrer_detector" on the site, and it shows up regardless of where the traffic comes from or even if you go to the site directly. How can I fix this?
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
Hi sunipeyk, Could you explain a bit more in details, so that I can try to fix?
Hi Kelson, 1. Thanks for your suggestion. This will be instructed in the next version (coming soon) 2. It's nothing but my coding habit. As Zend specified, a PHP file does not require the closing tag, and should not have to avoid session problem when including. 3. My bad, my very bad! Will be fixed.
The remaining problem with homepage is being fixed by me. Thanks for all!
Hi Study Babes,
The tag {referrer_detector} is intended to use in the *post* content itself, not in the theme. Here you're putting it into index.php, so it can't take effect.
SuniPeyk
· 1 year ago
mmm... i activated the plugin, test it from twitter. Nothing appears. :( May the other plugins cause it?
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
Hi SuniPeyk,
May I know your blog link (best is a link to the post which *should* have greetings)?
SuniPeyk, I see the problem. On your twitter page, all the links are in TinyURL format. This way, users who click on the links will be directed to TinyURL.com, and from there redirected to your site. So the referrer in this case will be tinyurl.com instead of twitter.com, which is the reason why the greeting box is not showing up. Unless you decide to add a "tinyurl.com" referrer and welcome user with Twitter message, or use full (long & real) url on Twitter, I can't see a way to get through this. Hope this helps ;)
SuniPeyk
· 1 year ago
oh... i really like your plugin and i love the idea behind it , and am sure that you make good ... but... the tinyurl dont work too. i also try with frienfeed, google.com.tr , search.yahoo.com ... but nothing appears. :(
any way thank you for very quick replies :)
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
SuniPeyk, I've checked through your page's HTML source code and see that somehow the mandatory javascript files are not included. Could you please send me the file wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php? Also do you suspect any plugins installed?
SuniPeyk
· 1 year ago
i tried WP Greet Box , its not working too. i am using landing sites plugin. i think its the only reason can be.
SuniPeyk
· 1 year ago
sorry maybe you looked at codes of my site while i deactivate the plugin...
phoenix.hearte
· 1 year ago
My top suspect is your theme is not calling to wp_head() function. May I ask what theme are you using?
Arun Basil Lal
· 1 year ago
That sounds like a great plug-in. Thanks for sharing.
By the way, the site designis so cool... Cheers
SuniPeyk
· 1 year ago
:))) damn me , yes wp_head() function solves it all :)) i am using default theme but i rewrite almost all part and pages
all working great thank you very very much for all your help and this lovely helpful plugin.
Thaya Kareeson
· 1 year ago
They say imitation is the best form of flattery
:) That being said, I've made some enhancements in WP Greet Box (version 4.0), that makes some of your feature comparisons outdated.
Ruchir Chawdhry
· 1 year ago
Thanks a lot man! Your plugin totally rocks! I'm going to feature your plugin in my upcoming top wordpress plugins linkbait post :D
Kelson
· 1 year ago
Thanks, I'll check out the new version!
Study Babes
· 1 year ago
Hey phoenixheart, is there any way to get it to only show like how I wanted it, one time at the top of the posts?
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
Hi Study Babes, I'm definitely thinking about more flexible options in the new future. Your idea is on top of the list ;)
dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA)
· 1 year ago
Great idea, this plugin look good and i will try and comment here
Navjot Singh
· 1 year ago
You need to correct the name of the file related to delicious...its broken.
iTalal
· 1 year ago
Hi, This is a great plugin, and it's working like a charm.
I have a question though, when I activate the message to be shown to the googlers it's shown also to the visitors from Google Reader, which is not good since they already subscribed to my feed. Is there a way to exclude google reader visitors from seeing the message?
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
Hi iTalal, and thanks for your compliment! For your question, I'm implementing that feature in the very next version of Referrer Detector. In the mean time, if it's vital for you, I recommend Thaya's Greet Box, it has that great feature included already ;)
iTalal
· 1 year ago
wow! thanks for the fast respond :) The new update has exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot!
iTalal
· 1 year ago
another question: when people search and landed on the main page, is there a way to display the message on the main page too?
I love the plugin and just wanted to give you a heads up over a possible security flaw. This guy on dailyblogtips said the following (granted I think he's upset),
"Honestly, I am quite disappointed that my plugin hasn’t done better in the WordPress community. I am also even more shocked[upset] that Referrer Detector got the word out much quicker than WP Greet Box. I guess it really does matter “who” you knows in the blogging community. I don’t want to sound biased, but as of right now (Referrer Detector version 2.1) I believe that WP Greet Box is hands-down better than Referrer Detector:
1. Referrer Detector has a security flaw in its administrative AJAX interface. I won’t say more, so hopefully people with Referrer Detector installed won’t get hacked. 2. WP Greet Box works with WPMU. 3. WP Greet Box has the ability to keep track of visitors, so the visitor referred from google will not keep getting the same greeting message if they have visited within the last X hours. 4. Exclusion rules have regular expressions support. 5. More solid default CSS. "
Umm, perfect. This is a perfect plugin, thanks. Well,one thing, but it is not really a big deal I use Lighter Admin and the menu doesn't work when I am configuring this plugin.
Just for completeness sake.
Thanks again,
edy
· 1 year ago
great work, thanks for plugin
spoot
· 1 year ago
Updrade to 3.0.1 throws the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_options() in /hermes/web03/b387/pow.XXXXX/htdocs/radionx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php on line 19
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
My bad... I totally messed up the code. Fixed it 3.0.2. Thanks for your information!
slee
· 1 year ago
hi love the plugin but i cant get it to work. When i activate it i get this: Cannot redeclare rdetector_install() on line 95
any ideas?
Nick Bostic
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the great plugin. Unfortunately, it stopped working on IE7 at some point. Google search for "nick bostic" works fine on Firefox and Chrome, but doesn't pop up on IE. Any suggestions?
phoenix.heart
· 1 year ago
Hi Nick, it seems to work with me on IE7. Do you suspect on anything? :)
marcO
· 11 months ago
Great plugin but unfortunately not useable for me at the moment as it breaks the livesearh and the livecomment functions i use on my theme. Maybe you have the time to look this up in details sometime?
Kathleen
· 11 months ago
I'm really impressed by how upfront you are listing the advantages WP Greet Box has over Referrer Detector & being completely transparent about which features are directly inspired by the former.
I find this level of openness & honesty quite rare & really very refreshing.
Thank you!
Kx
phoenix.heart
· 11 months ago
Hi Kathleen, Thank you for this comment. Both WP Greet Box and Referrer Detector are growing and have different features aside of common ones, so I'm always encouraging users to choose the one that fits their needs the most - as so is Thaya the author of WP Greet Box. We're living in an open world so I think it's only better for the whole community :)
Hazaa
· 11 months ago
Hey thanks for the great plugin!
Does this work on Wordpress Mu sites too?
Barock
· 11 months ago
wow.. its a cool plugin, it's really fit for create a relation to the new reader
enli
· 10 months ago
Hi,
I finally got it to work.
I would like to suggest that, with url "*" in the add entry, we can show a greeting on every page. Please add this into your next releases as disabled so that users wont have to figure that out.
And a question, How can i show more than 2 greetings for a page? Lets say for a twitter follower,i would like to show extra RSS feed greeting too.
Thanks, EnLi
phoenix.heart
· 10 months ago
Hi enli, Your idea about the "*" url is interesting. I will definitely think about it in the next versions. About the extra greetings... unfortunately I don't think the current version supports it. I will think about it, of course. Thanks for being interested in my plugin!
webbug
· 10 months ago
Excellent, really great plugin.
Works perfect,
Thank you.
Diana Freedman
· 10 months ago
Hello! First of all, this is an awesome plugin. I've been using it for about a month so far and I love it.
I have a formatting question. I would like to decrease the width of the table the welcome message is in so it fits nicely next to my right-aligned Digg button, which also appears in every post. I went into the "edit plugin" section for your plugin, but there's a lot of code there and I don't want to mess anything up. How can I decrease the width of the welcome message?
If you go to my blog from any of the referring sites, like Digg (http://digg.com/software/What_Should_You_Tweet_...) and then follow the link to my blog, you can see how it looks a bit messy at the top of the post. But I'd really like to have both the referrer detector AND the Digg button on every post, so I'd sincerely appreciate a solution to this formatting issue.
Thanks in advance, and great job on the plugin! ~ Diana
Diana Freedman
· 10 months ago
Actually, nevermind! I just upgraded the plugin and placed <?php if (function_exists('referrer_detector')) referrer_detector(); ?> in my theme template instead.
Thanks again!
Tony Lindskog
· 10 months ago
I get this error when enabling the plugin; I saw someone else having a similar but not exactly the same error but I did not see an answer about it.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rdetector_install() (previously declared in /home2/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php:101) in /home2/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php on line 140
rageblog
· 9 months ago
man this plugin looks so good
does anyone know how to get this working with the Thesis theme? or if it does work with it? I uploaded and enabled it and have tested but no luck yet
Глеб
· 9 months ago
Прикольно, а продолжение будет?
João Pedro Pereira
· 9 months ago
Hi, I've loved this plugin and I'm using it on my blog (see it: http://joaopedropereira.com/blog/ And I have 2 suggestions. First, google has lots of TLD like google.pt google.es google.us etc. you could make your plugin detect that the refferer was google and not only google.com you see? (I know that everyone can add more TLD writing everything again but like this it would be useful. The second suggestion, you could add a feature to select the message to show in more than one language and it will detect or the browser or the IP country and display the message according to that information. What do you think? Greets, João Pedro Pereira
phoenix.heart
· 9 months ago
Hi João, The first feature is available already, you can use wild card character "*", in this case google.* For the second, it is a brilliant idea! I will definitely keep it in mind for the next version. Thank you!
João Pedro Pereira
· 9 months ago
Oh excelent, I'll do it right now to google. Just a question, is possible to have google.* with an information and just google.pt with another without incompatibilities?
phoenix.heart
· 9 months ago
João, it should be possible. If it's not, then it's a bug :)
João Pedro Pereira
· 9 months ago
phoenix.heart it works good ;)
Alexander
· 9 months ago
This is a great plug-in, I have it on several sites, however I translate all the entries to Spanish, it would be great if an export / import feature would be available to keep all of them synchronized and not have to translate them each time I install the extension on a blog.
phoenix.heart
· 9 months ago
Alex, this is a great idea, and it should be available in the next version or RD. Stay tuned ;)
Alexander
· 9 months ago
Excellent news, will be looking forward to it. :D
Joel
· 8 months ago
I have made it to work on my blog. Great plugin. Do you know how I can add another entry so that if the referrer does not match the list I have, I can show a generalized welcome message?
enli
· 7 months ago
Is it compatible with WP 2.7.1.? Because even after the updates only the default RSS icon is showing up instead of site specific icons like digg, google etc.
enli
· 7 months ago
Nevermind my last comment. I dropped the related tables and re-activated the plugins. Looks like its fixed now.
All Comments
perfect.
Regards
Do other plugins could effect?
1. Most critically, the plugin requires write permission to its js subdirectory or to js/data.js (which does not exist in the archive). A lot of hosts do not allow write access by the web server account except on a case-by-case basis, so this needs to be included in the installation directions.
2. The PHP file doesn't have a close tag. Either that or I got an incomplete file from the archive.
3. All the feed links in the default entries are preset to point to your feed, rather than picking up the feel URL of the local blog. So I had to go through and change them all, one by one. This should either pick up the URL from WP settings, or should be mentioned in the directions.
Anyway, once I fixed those issues, it worked great, except for one more problem: If it's set to show on every post, and the landing page has more than one post -- say, it's the home page, or an archive page -- the notice appears for each and every post, all using the first post's URL. Unfortunately that makes it impractical to use on one of my sites which has been getting a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon to the home page lately.
Could you explain a bit more in details, so that I can try to fix?
Hi Kelson,
1. Thanks for your suggestion. This will be instructed in the next version (coming soon)
2. It's nothing but my coding habit. As Zend specified, a PHP file does not require the closing tag, and should not have to avoid session problem when including.
3. My bad, my very bad! Will be fixed.
The remaining problem with homepage is being fixed by me. Thanks for all!
Hi Study Babes,
The tag {referrer_detector} is intended to use in the *post* content itself, not in the theme. Here you're putting it into index.php, so it can't take effect.
May the other plugins cause it?
May I know your blog link (best is a link to the post which *should* have greetings)?
twitter : http://twitter.com/sunipeyk , choose any from the twitter all are from my blog...
On your twitter page, all the links are in TinyURL format. This way, users who click on the links will be directed to TinyURL.com, and from there redirected to your site. So the referrer in this case will be tinyurl.com instead of twitter.com, which is the reason why the greeting box is not showing up.
Unless you decide to add a "tinyurl.com" referrer and welcome user with Twitter message, or use full (long & real) url on Twitter, I can't see a way to get through this.
Hope this helps ;)
the tinyurl dont work too. i also try with frienfeed, google.com.tr , search.yahoo.com ... but nothing appears. :(
any way thank you for very quick replies :)
Could you please send me the file wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php? Also do you suspect any plugins installed?
By the way, the site designis so cool...
Cheers
i am using default theme but i rewrite almost all part and pages
all working great thank you very very much for all your help and this lovely helpful plugin.
:) That being said, I've made some enhancements in WP Greet Box (version 4.0), that makes some of your feature comparisons outdated.
This is a great plugin, and it's working like a charm.
I have a question though, when I activate the message to be shown to the googlers it's shown also to the visitors from Google Reader, which is not good since they already subscribed to my feed. Is there a way to exclude google reader visitors from seeing the message?
The new update has exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot!
when people search and landed on the main page, is there a way to display the message on the main page too?
Marko
Thanks for you invaluable support ;)
Hi Adeel,
All you need to do is upload the theme folder onto yoursite.com/wp-content/themes and then activate it via Design->Themes admin panel.
http://screencast.com/t/GlcHkuuqn1
Anyone know what's happening?
"Honestly, I am quite disappointed that my plugin hasn’t done better in the WordPress community. I am also even more shocked[upset] that Referrer Detector got the word out much quicker than WP Greet Box. I guess it really does matter “who” you knows in the blogging community.
I don’t want to sound biased, but as of right now (Referrer Detector version 2.1) I believe that WP Greet Box is hands-down better than Referrer Detector:
1. Referrer Detector has a security flaw in its administrative AJAX interface. I won’t say more, so hopefully people with Referrer Detector installed won’t get hacked.
2. WP Greet Box works with WPMU.
3. WP Greet Box has the ability to keep track of visitors, so the visitor referred from google will not keep getting the same greeting message if they have visited within the last X hours.
4. Exclusion rules have regular expressions support.
5. More solid default CSS. "
Should we worry about our sites being hacked????
About your last question, I will answer: no :)
Just for completeness sake.
Thanks again,
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_options() in /hermes/web03/b387/pow.XXXXX/htdocs/radionx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php on line 19
Thanks for your information!
any ideas?
I find this level of openness & honesty quite rare & really very refreshing.
Thank you!
Kx
Thank you for this comment. Both WP Greet Box and Referrer Detector are growing and have different features aside of common ones, so I'm always encouraging users to choose the one that fits their needs the most - as so is Thaya the author of WP Greet Box. We're living in an open world so I think it's only better for the whole community :)
Does this work on Wordpress Mu sites too?
I finally got it to work.
I would like to suggest that, with url "*" in the add entry, we can show a greeting on every page. Please add this into your next releases as disabled so that users wont have to figure that out.
And a question, How can i show more than 2 greetings for a page?
Lets say for a twitter follower,i would like to show extra RSS feed greeting too.
Thanks,
EnLi
Your idea about the "*" url is interesting. I will definitely think about it in the next versions.
About the extra greetings... unfortunately I don't think the current version supports it. I will think about it, of course.
Thanks for being interested in my plugin!
Works perfect,
Thank you.
I have a formatting question. I would like to decrease the width of the table the welcome message is in so it fits nicely next to my right-aligned Digg button, which also appears in every post. I went into the "edit plugin" section for your plugin, but there's a lot of code there and I don't want to mess anything up. How can I decrease the width of the welcome message?
If you go to my blog from any of the referring sites, like Digg (http://digg.com/software/What_Should_You_Tweet_...) and then follow the link to my blog, you can see how it looks a bit messy at the top of the post. But I'd really like to have both the referrer detector AND the Digg button on every post, so I'd sincerely appreciate a solution to this formatting issue.
Thanks in advance, and great job on the plugin!
~ Diana
Thanks again!
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rdetector_install() (previously declared in /home2/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php:101) in /home2/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/referrer_detector.php on line 140
does anyone know how to get this working with the Thesis theme? or if it does work with it?
I uploaded and enabled it and have tested but no luck yet
And I have 2 suggestions.
First, google has lots of TLD like google.pt google.es google.us etc. you could make your plugin detect that the refferer was google and not only google.com you see? (I know that everyone can add more TLD writing everything again but like this it would be useful. The second suggestion, you could add a feature to select the message to show in more than one language and it will detect or the browser or the IP country and display the message according to that information.
What do you think?
Greets,
João Pedro Pereira
The first feature is available already, you can use wild card character "*", in this case google.*
For the second, it is a brilliant idea! I will definitely keep it in mind for the next version.
Thank you!
Just a question, is possible to have google.* with an information and just google.pt with another without incompatibilities?
Thanks for great plugin.