Oh, and I will also need to add aubreypwd as a committer.
Is there any way to add a hit-counter to this plugin?
I’ve seen some other “cloaking” plugins that have hit counters, but they appear to use a dynamic redirect that is built from a database entry. I have not examined the code of any of them closely, so that’s just a guess at the mechanism used. (The reason I’m looking around is that my old cloaking plugin hasn’t been updated in a long time, and is generating error log entries — which means that it would be *REALLY* cool to have an easy way to import lots of redirects into a new plugin)
I’m guessing that just doing a redirect from the .htaccess file would not permit this, at least not directly. I do have some ideas that I would like to test, but I am new to writing plugins, and a bit concerned that I don’t know enough about WP security.
Please let me know your thoughts on this (especially if I’m wrong).
Can you give me an example of what a hit-counter is?
A hit counter is a tally of how many times a link has been clicked. This is useful for tracking the effectiveness of an ad campaign.
I don’t think that is supported by this plugin which just simply re-directs users from one page to another using .htaccess. Sorry.
OK. I’m guessing it’s easier to do it that way, but a hit counter is something that is almost a requirement for any business.
I found another plugin that provides that, and seems to work ok for now. When I have some time, I plan to examine how it works.
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