Link Directory (LD) [Deleted]

[au lait]

5. I'm not sure your click tracking is working. I've had links on for a few days that still have 0-1 and ONLY increase if I click on it myself. With 5000-8000 visitors, it's impossible to not get clicks, especially since the placement is very high and links are viewed by guests.

Works only for logged users


Option for screenshots coming And other things!

 

[au lait]

au lait updated Link Directory (LD) with a new update entry:

Version 1.7

[fixed] some Improves

Furthermore, these requests / issues have been met. Thanks!

SOLVED. Maybe the default should be to remove the XenForo text from the Software Check. or write a better hint/documentation...

fixed

Fixed Post #61

1) Very important: Have the...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Fred.]

Thanks for the update au lait
It looks way better now without the white box behind the links
Did a quick test and no errors so far.

 

[Mouth]

At /linkdirectory/ the 'Default Order' ( /admin.php?options/list/phc_linkdirectory ) is now being ignored and it appears to be instead using 'Order Sidebar-Links'.
Please correct @au lait

Edit: In fact, it appears the Date sort order is broken and not working at all.
Edit #2: /linkdirectory/?order=clicks is broken too

 

[Mouth]

Table "phc_linkdirectory" field "site_logo" is a timesstamp
Images are saved on "data\linkdirectory"
Scheme:
LD_ID divided 1000 (Round fractions down) = Foldername
Image has the the LD_ID.jpg

I cannot follow this. Anyone able to use it to make a tool that will retrieve the site logo for directory entries that don't currently have one?

 

[51463]

Suggestion!!


Can you please consider on adding the ability to "review" the links and sort by "highest" & "lowest" reviews

 

[Mouth]

How do I remove the site software icon at the end of the title? - it looks terrible, and is irrelevant. Hoping there's an entry that can be added to extra.css to hide it?

 

[51463]

I agree it looks strange.....

Is it the favicon? It would look better at the start of the title

or give us the option to turn it off




or in the description looks good too

 

[Mouth]

Is it the favicon?

It appears to be an icon for target site software, taken from software stats @ /admin.php?linkdirectory/

 

[Freelancer]

@Mouth, if you mean the "no software" icon? That was the first thing I did remove...

Open "ld_links_item" template and find:

<h3 class="title">
                {xen:helper ldlink, $link} <img src="styles/phc/linkdirectory/apps/{$link.app}16.png" alt="{$link.app}" title="{$link.app}" />
            </h3>

Replace with:

<h3 class="title">
                {xen:helper ldlink, $link} <xen:if is="{$link.app} !== 'none'"> <img class="linkapp{$link.app}" src="styles/phc/linkdirectory/apps/{$link.app}16.png" alt="{$link.app}" title="{$link.app}" /></xen:if>
            </h3>

If you want to get rid of the logo icons at all, then use this:

<h3 class="title">
                {xen:helper ldlink, $link}
            </h3>

NOTE that this was BEFORE the last update. If @au lait changed the helper URL string you need to adapt the new code line. But I think you will get the point.

 

[Mouth]

How do you like a directory entry? I cannot see where to do this.

 

[51463]

Suggestion #2

Adding some sort of link exchange feature, same as tradeexpert.net

and keep track of "clicks in"

At the moment you have sort by clicks

It could keep track of "clicks in" & "clicks out"







Link exchange is good because it brings more traffic to members site, and when he add link back, it also brings back traffic to your site




with choice for link exchange code, using image or link

 

[Freelancer]

@au lait Great improvement so far, unfortunately the Avatar Icons in the Sidebar don't work as links, although the code is identical and I can not find a clue why it is not working.

 

[au lait]

At /linkdirectory/ the 'Default Order' ( /admin.php?options/list/phc_linkdirectory ) is now being ignored and it appears to be instead using 'Order Sidebar-Links'.
Please correct @au lait

Edit: In fact, it appears the Date sort order is broken and not working at all.
Edit #2: /linkdirectory/?order=clicks is broken too

fixed!

How do I remove the site software icon at the end of the title? - it looks terrible, and is irrelevant. Hoping there's an entry that can be added to extra.css to hide it?

Improved, it can only be switched on or off!

@au lait Great improvement so far, unfortunately the Avatar Icons in the Sidebar don't work as links, although the code is identical and I can not find a clue why it is not working.

fixed

Next version takes but!

 

[Sunka]

fixed!

View attachment 124086
Improved, it can only be switched on or off!

There is no options for that. I am using newest version
version_string="1.7" version_id="19770046"

 

[Freelancer]

@Sunka, the next version with the fixes from above is not released (yet).

 

[drastic]

Works only for logged users


Option for screenshots coming And other things!

Tracking ONLY the clicks made by logged in users is not very good for our sites, here's why...

1. lots of sites have visitors who aren't logged in and visitor clicks should be tracked. Those should be counted. It looks better for a site to display the true numbers, which in all of our cases, is much higher.

My site focuses on other content and the forum is not always active for me and my users don't have to login to see content. With 5000-10000 visitors per day, the links are being clicked on by my guests, but none of the clicks are registered.

2. a new member who is thinking of submitting a link, probably won't submit the link, and probably won't come back to the site if they always see low click numbers. I wouldn't submit a link to a site that had 3 clicks. What's the point?

How to fix:
Track all clicks to the links, from guests and registered users. You can track one unique click per user per 24 hours, or 12 hours, but they should ALL be tracked.

OR

Give us the option to disable click tracking entirely. If I can't have correct stats, then I'd rather have nothing.

Thanks and hope that makes sense. Sometimes I word things incorrectly.

 

[drastic]

I like this addon and how fast you're working on it. It's a great thing to have for our sites.

Here's another few things...

1. Can I disable checking the software? I know your next version can hide the software icon, but I would like to turn that off entirely. I have NO need for it and it's probably a waste of resources.

Here's a few ideas for style fixes. The thumbnails below open to full images. (I think)

2. Widget/sidebar options.

This looks bad because it only takes up half of the sidebar.


Thumbnails only, responsively filling your sidebar.


Thumbnails with a title next to them.


Big thumbnails with a big title under them.

 

[Sunka]

Can I disable checking the software? I know your next version can hide the software icon, but I would like to turn that off entirely. I have NO need for it and it's probably a waste of resources.

+ 1

 

[Fred.]

Table "phc_linkdirectory" field "site_logo" is a timesstamp
Images are saved on "data\linkdirectory"
Scheme:
LD_ID divided 1000 (Round fractions down) = Foldername
Image has the the LD_ID.jpg

Thank you for all error messages! Have that all fixed!


New version comes today

I cannot follow this. Anyone able to use it to make a tool that will retrieve the site logo for directory entries that don't currently have one?

Same here, I don't understand.
I really hope we can get the images in there.

*Feature Request*
Is it possible to hide BBCODE that is in the Pagetext field?
Now I see stuff like

[SIZE=4][B][B]Travel Alone Not Lonely[/B][/B][/SIZE]

in the Pagetext field. Because it's on the discussion page, it works perfect there.
But in the link directory it doesn't parse the BBCODE.