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Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Jeux Moins Chers — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:32:35 -0000

I'm gonna try it on my website! I saw this plugin in a discussion related to Ref Detect ;)
Thanks !

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

marcO — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:33:53 -0000

Great Pugin. Totally worth trying it out. Unfortunately i got one incompatiblity with the feed statistics plugin from here http://www.chrisfinke.com/w.... Seems like the ref data is empty by some reason so greet box will not show up anymore together with this plugin. Maybe you have the chance to look this up?

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:09:18 -0000

Interesting. How do you test this? Does the google search result for
your page show up as "Hello Googler! ..."?

Try googling "bash shortcuts beer planet" and clicking through (1st
link) to my friend's site with WP Greet Box and WP Super Cache. I don't
see WP Greet Box text in the meta data in the google results. Can you
show me how to reproduce this?

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

JK — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:03:17 -0000

Thanks for a quick response.

I've been using the landing site plugin for many years and never seen this problem before - and your plugin is based on that plugin. The only difference now is that I've started using the WP Super Cache plugin with your plugin only 2 days ago. So not sure whether this is WP Super Cache issue vs yours?

Any other thoughts?

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:23:27 -0000

@JK
That is really up to the Google spider. Google is usually smart enough to spider things that only the user sees. For example, I've seen a black hat SEO technique where plugin authors embeds an invisible back link along with the plugin used (which leaks link juice to the plugin author's homepage). Google is smart enough to detect those and penalize them. I really wouldn't mess with trying to hide things from Google. If you are worried about your meta descriptions, you should just move WP Greet Box to the end of your post instead of the beginning.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

JK — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:05:20 -0000

Hi Thaya,

I found a bug with this plugin. I installed your plugin and followed by WP Super Cache yesterday. Everything seems to work fine from blog perspective. However when I posted a new content in my blog and a few hours later, Google indexed the post however it indexed the greeting messages as well. It doesn't look good because the first few lines are the actual greeting message from your plugin not the meta description that I defined.

How do we prevent not to show the greeting box for spiders? Have you seen this issue before? Please help.

Thanks, JK

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:52:17 -0000

@kaiserlino
Sorry that you could not get this plugin to work for you. WP Greet Box front end (javascript) makes back end calls like the following when loaded:

http://www.dkcell.com.br/de...|%20Walls%20|%20Dkcell%20Design

I visited the URL above, your site returned a 503 error. When I tried any of the following URLs:

http://www.dkcell.com.br/in...|%20Walls%20|%20Dkcell%20Design

http://www.dkcell.com.br/de...

it works fine. Something is definitely wrong with URL resolution on your server. Something could be wrong with the .htaccess file, the WordPress adress or Blog address in your WordPress general settings, or the permalink settings. I'm not sure how your site structure is setup, but if you can modify your settings so that WP Greet Box can access an index.php then you should be fine.

Also another thing worth trying is to modify your wp-greet-box/js/onload.js by changing "index.php" to "/index.php". Totally untested, because I don't have your setup :(.

Hope this helps!

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

kaiserlino — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:37:09 -0000

Hi...
Absolutely i didn't find the reason it's not working.
Maybe it's an issue with Mootols, but don't know really.
If you knew any problem with it, i would love to know.
Btw, i will update the blog theme and the new funcionality will use Jquery as framework.

Thanks

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:12:15 -0000

@Hiram
Sorry that you could not get this plugin to work for you. WP Greet Box
front end (javascript) makes back end calls similar to the following
when loaded:

http://www.balance-your-hea...

I visited this URL and your site returned a 500 error. When I tried to
access:

http://www.balance-your-hea...

Looks like something might be wrong with the .htaccess file, the
WordPress adress or Blog address in your WordPress general settings, or
the permalink settings. I'm not sure how your site structure is setup,
but if you can modify your settings so that WP Greet Box can access an
index.php then you should be fine.

Also another thing worth trying is to modify your
wp-greet-box/js/onload.js by changing "index.php" to "/". Totally
untested, because I don't have your setup :(.

Hope this helps!

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Hiram — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:04:32 -0000

Super plug-in! Only problem is that I can't seem to get it to show up on my site. If I View Source, I can see that the code is actually there. However, for some reason, nothing actually shows up on the page itself.

I just upgraded to WP2.7 and I've got some Google Adsense and an Odiogo playback control button at the beginning of the post. Could that be causing a conflict? Note that I've also tried putting the Greet Box at the END of the post and can't get it to show up there either.

Any suggestions?

Hiram
http://www.balance-your-hea...

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

webmaster — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:52:51 -0000

Thanks for nice information really would be helpful

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:56:56 -0000

@Michael Garmahis
Good to hear that it's not my bug :). Too bad that Adblock Plus is too smart for my plugin though :(.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:29:51 -0000

Hi Thaya,
Thanks for your reply! Sorry it was my mistake. The plugin had not appear because Adblock Plus was enabled in Firefox. And the parsing error was solved by re-uploading file wp-greet-box.php again. Looks like it was corrupted.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:07 -0000

@Michael Garmahis,
Sorry you are having issues with the plugin. Let's deal with these as separate issues:

On one blog with Wordpress 2.6 it doesn’t show up

What is the blog you are talking about? Can you enable WP Greet Box and give me the URL so I can check it out?

another with 2.5 give me ‘fatal error’ Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting ‘(’ in ***/wp-greet-box.php on line 717

I'm looking at wp-greet-box.php line 717, but I cannot find any "$" anywhere. Do you have a modified version somehow? My line 717 looks like:

extract(get_option(wpgb::get_name()));

is WP Greet Box compatible with Wordpress 2.7

I and some other people are using WordPress 2.7 right now with WP Greet Box. I haven't seen any bug reports specifically for WP 2.7 yet, so I'm assuming that there is no compatibility issue :).

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:43:16 -0000

I can't figure out how to make your great plugin work. On one blog with Wordpress 2.6 it doesn't show up and another with 2.5 give me 'fatal error'
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting '(' in ***/wp-greet-box.php on line 717
BTW, is WP Greet Box compatible with Wordpress 2.7?

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:35 -0000

@Eduardo Arcos,
Looks like it's a site specific htaccess path issue. Let me resolve this with you through email so we don't expose any directory paths to the public.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Eduardo Arcos — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:21:43 -0000

Hello,

Nice plugin! seems like an elegant solution to send a message to search engine visitors to our blogs. I've tried to use the plugin on my blog with bad results. The problem is that in the area where the greeting message is supposed to load it loads the whole page.

I've disabled the plugin, but here's a screenshot, maybe you can give me some pointers on the problem?

http://skitch.com/earcos/6x...

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Alex — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:31:22 -0000

Thank you Thaya, works fine now.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:42:44 -0000

@creativeherb,
Version 4.4.1 should have this feature you are requesting. :)

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:52:55 -0000

@Alex,
Thank you for reporting this so that I can make a quick fix for everybody else. Version 4.4.1 should fix this issue.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:51:16 -0000

Released 4.4.1

- Fix preg_match() error that occurs when there are slashes (/) specified in the referrer URL of each custom greeting message.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Alex — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:00:51 -0000

Hi Thaya,

Great plugin, it's awesome thank you. After I upraded to 4.4 I get this message when I use Yahoo

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '/' in /home/fxva24/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-greet-box/wp-greet-box.php on line 765

Yahoo search http://xr.com/kew The 7th organic is mine

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:20:20 -0000

@Sean,
Version 4.4 should fix the issue you are having. Can you give it a try?

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:19:41 -0000

Released version 4.4

- Added more default greeting messages.
- Created and used my own set of free transparent icons.
- Added support for wildcard referrers (*.fr, *.uk).
- Added ability to specify multiple referrers per greeting message.
- Adjusted default CSS again.
- Fixed bug with stumbleupon & digg URLs that won't work on some sites.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Guest — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:40:11 -0000

Hello Thaya,

I got this error and tried to reinstall it twice, please help.
Thanks,
Warning: stristr(): Empty delimiter. in /home/content/s/e/a/fortress/html/dealmakersblog.com/wp-conte... on line 612