• Resolved CAShadle

    (@cashadle)


    We have two links in a text widget that go outside of our Intranet to a local server. After the recent Slimstat update, these links now just go to different pages on our Intranet instead. Where they go seems to be dependent on where I place the widget. Also, this issue only occurs on the home page. The same exact links in the same exact location on every other page work fine.

    Disabling Slimstat fixes this problem immediately, which is why I’m posting in here thinking it might be a bug. I’ve also added completely external links to the sidebar and none of them work (http://www.google.com). Even in a menu or text widget.

    Any ideas? Could this just be a bug with Slimstat after the recent update?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/

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  • Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    What’s the URL?

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    It’s linking to an internal server, but here’s code code from the text widget:

    <a href="http://vision/visionclient/deltekvision.application"><img src="http://intra/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/vision_logo.png" alt="Vision" height="25" width="63" /></a> <a href="http://vision/navigator"><img src="http://intra/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/navigator_logo.png" alt="Navigator" height="25" width="99" /></a>

    Just note that even putting in something like http://www.google.com/ would not work either, it would just redirect to another page on the Intranet. It seemed to be pulling the links from the menu widget above it or somewhere else on the page.

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    I will try to replicate this on my dev environment. Unfortunately that markup you posted is not sufficient to troubleshoot the issue. It’s the javascript behind the scenes that creates the problem.

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    Alright, is there something else you’d want me to give you? I wish I could give you a link to the site, but, unfortunately, it’s our company Intranet.

    Thanks for the help.

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    Okay, after researching the subject, we finally found out what the issue is in some browsers:

    http://stackoverflow.com/a/9514875

    We patched our code to follow what described in that article, and according to our tests, it is working as expected now.

    Those of you who want to test version 3.8.1 before it’s officially released here on the WP repo, can download it from our github repository

    https://github.com/getusedtoit/wp-slimstat/releases

    Cheers,
    Camu

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    PS: after doing the manual upgrade (DO NOT UNINSTALL THE CURRENT ONE OR YOY WILL LOSE ALL YOUR DATA!), the version number will still say 3.8. Do not worry about it, it’s done on purpose, so that when we release 3.8.1 here on WP.org, you will get a notification to upgrade and stay up-to-date πŸ˜‰

    Cheers,
    Camu

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    Thanks for the response! I went ahead and manually upgraded the plugin on our test site. Unfortunately, the problem still seems to persist.

    IE still redirects to another link, however Chrome just doesn’t do anything now. Any thoughts?

    3.8.1 completely killed my website. Uninstalled it and back to normal.

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    cjwinternet, could you elaborate on the problem? did you get an error message? did you get a blank page? did you check your error logs? πŸ™‚ Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    I pushed a new update to github:

    https://github.com/getusedtoit/wp-slimstat/releases/tag/3.8.1

    Could you please test it and see if it works now?

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    Still seems to be redirecting to another page πŸ™

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    Then it must be a conflict with another plugin :/ Can you check?

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    I’ll run through and disable plugins on our test site to see if I can weed out the problem. Will follow up shortly.

    Plugin Author Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter CAShadle

    (@cashadle)

    Ran through and found the conflicting plugin – Looks like it’s the WordPress Slider Plugin (which would explain why it’s only occurring on the home page since that’s the only place we use it).

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-slider-ssp/

    Any ideas?

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