CouponCodePlugin

Hello, this was a large issue with the old version of WP-O-Matic, as well as many other issues. We corrected these and re-released the plugin with premium support so that you can get the answers you need within 24 hours, instead of having to wait months as is usually the case.
http://businesswebsitedev.com/products-and-services/wordpress-plugins/wp-o-matic/

Hello, I have been digging through the sites to try and make a comparison between sites that work and sites that do not.
It seems that the sites that do not work have used a number of SEO plugins in the past such as All in one SEO pack, Headspace etc.
A clean install seems to fix this issue. Hope this helps.

We noticed some strange activity when used with cloudflare. The plugin was setup as per the instructions cloudflare provide.
Our server includes the cloudflare mod.
So, everything is configured as it should.

3 of our sites had massive volumes of errors, one site had 180’000 403 errors per day!
Cloudflare claimed that bad behavior was causing the issues. So we checked the log and it showed no google IPs or cloudflare IPs.

So cloudflare blamed our server as causing the issue. We pulled the server logs and saw no google IPs or cloudflare IPs that were being given any 403.

When we supplied stats for our server and bad behavior, cloudflare closed all our tickets and did not address the issue further, including one ticket that had received no reply from their staff or anyone else. We have had to resort to contacting their press office as their support is immensely lacking (presently 14 days with no reply, tickets closed, issues ignored, questions ignored, the list goes on and on…).

The problem is that cloudflare do not know their own system. I noticed that they made a post stating that sites with errors would be moved to IP blocks so that Google knew they were error prone and did not base it on the IP. When I asked their support staff about this, they claimed the opposite. I asked them to clarify this, but they simply ignored the question repeatedly.

I joined cloudflare with the view of testing it and then upgrading some of our sites to one of their paid options. However, after the support and errors we experienced, I am now looking at moving to an alternative.

I too have had massive issues with the service. While I have been able to smush some images, it has hardly been worth the effort due to the time involved in playing with it just to get it to smush a few images.

Unfortunately, yahoo has come up with a great idea and then implemented it in an horrific and counter-productive manner.

Hello, first thing’s first, thank you for developing this plugin.

I have no idea why yahoo want the images processed on their server. This seems like an odd method to force upon everyone.
I can understand that this would be useful for users on shared hosting, but for those of us with our own servers, we have the resources to process all of the images on our own server.

As a website owner, I am extremely concerned over the following terms which you must agree to to use the smush it service:

By submitting your image to the Service for optimization, you represent and warrant that:

b) You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your images to use such person’s image or likeness in your image for use in the manner contemplated in these TOU;

So that means you can not use it on a site where the photos are of public areas which will include pepople who have not signed a consent release agreement.

d) You will not use the service in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume, constitutes excessive or abusive usage, as determined by Yahoo! in its sole discretion.

So, yahoo can ban me if I use it too much. How to they determine this? Is it based on IP address or domain? If it is IP address, users of systems such as cloudflare or users with shared hosting could easily be banned when they have not submitted all of the images themselves as the IP address will be shared between many, many users.

4) You retain ownership to your images submitted to the Service. However, by submitting your images to Yahoo!, you hereby grant Yahoo! and its affiliates the following worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable rights and licenses: To temporarily host, cache, store, or modify your images to appropriate media formats, standards or mediums as part of the Service.

So, to use the service, I have to grant yahoo a license that essentially allows them to do whatever they want with my photos. While I understand they need a license to store it on their server even if only for the processing time, the license that they are actually demanding would allow them to sell my images, use them elsewhere or do whatever they desire to do with them. If any of them are used elsewhere, the privacy of users who have family blogs could be violated. For businesses, it could mean content dilution if the images appear elsewhere on the internet.

The terms further state that yahoo are not held liable or responsible for any damages or loss of earnings. This is absolutely standard for almost any business. However, what is concerning is that when this is coupled with #4, it means that should yahoo use your images in some way that negatively impacts you (and they could even make money from it), then you have almost zero comeback.

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/smush_it/smush_it-4378.html

Is there any reason why yahoo want it done on their server? I assume that the process is not unique to yahoo and as such can be reproduced on the server side. I have started converting the images on my pc so that they are already reduced in size before uploading them.

Also, I wanted to point out that while this plugin is awesome, it only works on images in the media library, it would be lovely if it could search the plugins and themes folders for images that can also be improved upon as that is usually where the majority of images are from as they form the design and are on every single page of the site.

Sorry it’s such a long reply, I just wanted to mention a few of the things that I do not think many people realise and try to see how the plugin can be improved upon.

@esmi that is not what the repository rules state. While you can have links, you must not add them “without explicitly asking the user’s permission”. Unfortunately, this plugin does not do this.

I came here today as I was sent an email saying that David Law had added a reply in which he said that you can remove the code that generates the link. What I found shocking was that the action used was “yd_wpmuso_linkware”. Linkware?

Plugin Repository Restrictions state:

The plugin must not embed external links on the public site (like a “powered by” link) without explicitly asking the user’s permission.

So, it is ok to have a link in the admin side, but if it adds it on the public site, it is not allowed within the repository, it would seem.

As you can understand, it is annoying that you were not replying to anyone, but were releasing updates. I would be more than happy to pay for support if you could guarantee a reply time.

Many thanks