Plugin Author
Dennis
(@dspreen)
Hi Doug,
It’s not a bug – Qr Code Tag compares the complete URL (parameters included): if you reach a post by
http://myblog/2011/mypost
and via
http://myblog/2011/mypost#somesection
http://myblog/2011/mypost?sort=whatever
qrcodetag has created 3 qrcodes…
I’m going to add a switch that prevents this behavior.
Regards,
Dennis
Ditto Doug.
I currently use it only on 1 page (contact) and every time I do a page refresh the cache increments by 1.
I use permalinks only and no other caching, so it shouldn’t be creating multiple copies.
CW
Plugin Author
Dennis
(@dspreen)
It shouldn’t create multiple copies just by refreshing. Do you use the widget or shortcodes?
I activated W3 Total cach and it’s stopped it from incrementing so much.
Still a 7 count from a single QR (I reset the cache when I posted this topic)
C.
Like CW, I was using the widget version.
@cw: Do you use WP-SuperCache (or another caching plugin)?
I believe my problem was related to WP-SuperCache and the way it rewrites URLs to serve cached pages. In short, every time a page or post was accessed, WP-SuperCache would serve the cached page, but to QR Code Tag, it looked like a new page / post, so a new QR code image would be generated.
As soon as I disabled WP-SuperCache, QR Code Tag stopped making so many versions of the same thing.
Unfortunately, I need a good cache tool more than I need QR Codes, so I stopped using QR Code Tag shortly after creating this thread.
I wasn’t using caching at the time, but since I activated W3 Total Cache it’s slowed down the count….
Working in my favour rather than against me :o)
CW
Plugin Author
Dennis
(@dspreen)
A QR Code is created for every URL including any parameters – thus if you may access a single page by different URLS, a qr code is created every time, e.g.:
http://mypage.com/mypost
http://www.mypage.com/mypost
http://www.mypage.com/mypost?someparam
http://www.mypage.com/mypost?someothereparams
http://mypage.com/archive/mypost
http://mypage.com/categories/some/mypost
I am currently working on updating the plugin (for wordpress 3.1+) – you may then take a look at what is actually cached (URL & params) and you can now change the URL behavior from full permalink (as the current version does) to short page URL (the one with ?page=1234) which creates smaller qr codes and stops creating different qr codes for the same page.
thanks for your reports!
regards,
dennis
I like your plugin but, am on 3.1. ;-{ Any idea on when the 3.1 version will be available?
you can use a simple line of code to add QR-CODE image to your post. So why you are using plugin? Just have to paste this code into wordpress loop, as the permalink is used we don’t have to worry about all things (Dennis explained it in detailed)
using some conditional statements you can restrict this from appearing on some kind of pages such as category,tags, etc.
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=100x100&chl=<?php the_permalink(); ?/>" width="150" height="150" alt="QR code" />
Above code worked fine. Who want more customization options then use “QR Code tag” this is best qr code plugin I saw on wordpress.
Hi ! I’m sorry if I’m using this topic but it’s the only way to ask a question to Amit_k :
A few months ago, you answer to a topic : anyway to add meta description to post without plugin… And you said and suggest :
«<?php if( is_single() ) {
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php the_excerpt(); ?>” />
?>
Above code will add meta description to posts only, This will show first 55 words If you are not writing excerpt manually, else it will show the content of excerpt field.»
So, where do you add those lines ? In what template and where ?
Thanks to answer me please !
@seb-pame
In the header.php template between ‘<head></head>’ tags.
That question was asked for meta_description for posts , so I used the conditional tag to restrict the process to single posts only. If you want to add specific meta-description, keywords, titles for your posts, pages, category archives etc then use SEO for WordPress plugin by yoast.
