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March 12, 2018 at 3:42 pm #2591
Anonymous
InactiveThe referral link doesn’t go to the faucet page.
This is the referral link: http://mydomain.com?__wallets_faucet_ref=9d1a42c1a0141fa2
March 13, 2018 at 12:05 am #2599vorticism
ParticipantHello,
At first I was a bit confused. But in my case the referral link works well.
If you click the referral link while logged in, you just go to the main page.
If a visitor visits your site with a referral link and then registers, and the visitor(user) turns on the faucet, a commission is distributed to the referrer.March 13, 2018 at 7:58 am #2601Anonymous
InactiveHello Vorticism,
Thanks for your help. You are right but the problem it is that in my case the link does not take me to the home page. It takes me to another page on my website.
March 14, 2018 at 9:34 am #2612alexg
KeymasterWhat page does the referral link take you to?
Normally adding a get parameter to the main URL for your site should still take you to the homepage.
1. Can you email me a screenshot of that page or otherwise describe the page you are being redirected to?
2. Does the URL in the address bar change to something else?
Thanks.
regards
April 10, 2018 at 8:01 pm #2818Anonymous
InactiveHi Alex.
The url is not changed but my theme redirects me to a page with blog entries. I’m sure it’s some idea from the designers of my theme. Do you know if you can use some function or plugin to change the url to which a get parameter takes you?
Thanks!!!
April 11, 2018 at 6:27 am #2819alexg
KeymasterUnfortunately this is not how it works. A get parameter does not take you anywhere on its own.
The WordPress system, and occasionally, some themes or plugins interpret your get parameters and can do anything they want with them, including redirect you. This is why I have prefixed the parameter with the plugin slug as is best practice (
__wallets_faucet_ref
). This ensures that the parameters in the faucet plugin is not used by other plugins.Have you established that this is caused when that particular theme is activated? What happens if you switch to another theme?
April 11, 2018 at 9:38 am #2820Anonymous
InactiveHi Alex.
If I switch to another theme the link works the same. Finally it seems that it is not a problem of the theme.
April 11, 2018 at 10:18 am #2821alexg
KeymasterIn that case, is it possible for you to check again after disabling your other plugins? The problem should not be caused when the other plugins are disabled. Then re-enable them one by one to find out which one causes the problem. Once you do, let me know and I will test with that plugin on my end and fix any problem.
Additionally, can you check your
.htaccess
file, if you are using the apache server? The recommended settings are here: https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess If your.htaccess
file differs from the one recommended, can you send it to me?please let me know what you find
thank you
April 11, 2018 at 1:45 pm #2822Anonymous
InactiveHi Alex.
I have tried to remove the plugins and I have discovered that the plugin that performs the redirect is the plugin of the faucet itself. If I deactivate the faucet plugin and use the referral link, it directs me to the home page of my website.
April 13, 2018 at 7:57 am #2827alexg
KeymasterThank you I am investigating this.
April 17, 2018 at 1:46 pm #2859alexg
KeymasterI have improved the redirect mechanism in Faucet 1.3.0. Now it should redirect to whatever the referral link was but without the referral code.
regards
April 17, 2018 at 4:20 pm #2864Anonymous
InactiveHi.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong but I do not notice any change. I’ve put the new shortcode and it realizes the same redirection. I sent you an email. Thank you.April 20, 2018 at 10:01 am #2885alexg
KeymasterThere was a bug in the redirect code that affected only Apache but not Nginx. This is now fixed in version 1.3.1 of the Faucet extension. Thank you.
April 20, 2018 at 10:03 am #2886Anonymous
InactiveGreat Alex!!! Thanks!!!
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