wpbroken2much

I am a plugin developer and I am trying my best not to have to make my own plugin to accomplish such basis tasks.

It shouldn’t be hard to write a PHP script which extracts external URLs from posts, saves them in the database, and replaces the original post URLs with URLs to pages which redirects outside the visibility of search engines. The hardest part for me would be overcoming script timeout constraints on my server. This means I will have to learn to write the plugin so it can run via WP-CLI or create some type of AJAX UI which shows the progress of the job with an option to pause.

I have never made a plugin which uses WP-CLI and I have never used javascript on any of my prior plugins. All my prior plugins have been written entirely in PHP. I shouldn’t have to learn anything because plugins like ThirstyAffiliates and PrettyLinks claim to offer competent cloaking solutions but if you contact either one they admit lacking the basic features I describe here.

Thanks, that turned out to be the case with that one but still a problem here. Turns out that despite network activate failing that sites in the network have it active anyway. Surprised to see that since I though one must activate it on the network level first to be used on any site in that network.

I have installed Pretty Links, Thirsty Affiliates, and Easy Affiliate Links but they all share the same flaws. They all seem only useful for cloaking future links and often those links must be cloaked by hand. They seem to advertise features that might do what I need but I’ve never tried them and don’t want to pay for premium versions that I don’t know will work or not.

Right now all I can figure out how to do with those plugins in manually create future cloaked links. They don’t even seem capable of auto-cloaking every future external link. Its as if they expect each post to be manually created by a person and for that person to submit any links they want cloaked to the cloaking plugin one at a time. This is not feasible for most people who need to cloak links because most people who need to cloak links are auto-blogging.

The plugin I need must run when the publish function runs and automatically cloak any external links detected in the post.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by wpbroken2much.

That doesn’t qualify as a support page because it is just a collection of articles with no way to contact their staff or post anything yourself.

Also, does Feedzy check the source page for open graph tags? I ask because one of the feeds doesn’t actually have images in the feed, but the site had og image tags.

I found a way to delete everything from a specific category but the category has over 30,000 posts has been running for over 3 possibly 4 days and only appears slightly over half way done.

wp post delete $(wp post list --cat=8 --format=ids)

Then I will try this other one which I think will remove posts from a specific category for a specific year. I’d like to add the month to this one if possible.

wp post delete $(wp post list --post_type=post --cat=8 --format=ids --year=2016)

I expect the above to work at a snail’s pace which is why I’d love to find a SQL query that I can use in MySQL.

Thanks, but that link is more of what I’m talking about. It lists just three specific examples which are the deletion of a single post, all pages, and all posts in the trash. Then it has big list of parameters which assumes the reader understands the syntax.

They need to add an example for deleting a range of posts from a specific category. If I want to remove all posts from a category named Uncategorized between post number 1 and post number 50,000. Deleting all posts in a specific category before a specific post would also work for me in this case.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by wpbroken2much.

How would I be able to tell which statement it is? I can access the process list but all the processes are sleeping and don’t show anything in the info field.