Blog Mechanics Keyword Link Plugin v0.3.1

11 Responses to “Blog Mechanics Keyword Link Plugin v0.3.1”

1. aouniApril 24th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

   Hello Martin

   I would like to ask you before I install the plugin if the word “Stonehenge” is repeated in the same post several times, will all be linked as well?

   I think this shouldn’t happen..

2. MartinApril 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

   Hoi Aouni,

   Yes, it will replace all occurrences, not just the first . A side effect of using the str_replace function used for this.

   Interesting point — I will look into making this an option. Something like “(x) only replace first match”

   Would that work?

   Cheers,
   Martin

3. MartinApril 25th, 2008 at 3:19 am

   I modified the code a little to support replacing only the first occurance of a keyword. For instructions, please see the introduction above.

   Hope this helps.

   Cheers,
   Martin

4. TrickMay 1st, 2008 at 1:54 pm

   I modified the code to allow for nofollowing and opening in a new window any link off of my domain. Perhaps integrate for the next release?

5. MartinMay 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm

   Hoi Trick,

   Thanks for the suggestion.

   Should be easy to integrate — it seems however that the “simple” is slowly giving way to “features”.

   If I find a moment I will add an option panel to the configuration allowing for (1) first occurance replacement (2) no follow tags for external links (3) open in a new window all as options.

   Cheers,
   Martin

6. Tom StoneMay 5th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

   Hello! Good work!

   However, there are a few glitches that might need attention.

   If I have put one URL for the key word “magic” and another URL for “magicians”, then the latter don’t work, as the first word/link is too greedy and URL-ifies it like this: (MAGIC)ians.

   It also cuts into URLs already in the text.
   Like the text:
   http ://magic.performance.net becomes
   http ://(MAGIC).performance.net

   Also… but I’m not quite sure of it yet, but it seems like it also in some cases, cuts into the already generated link. Like it check for keywords in a string even after a URL already has been assigned… Not sure yet, but I’ve gotten strange results hard to explain otherwise.

   While trying it out, I also experimented with getting the title attribute into the generated link. I did it quite simple. In the link field, I put the URL and a title phase together, separated with a vertical bar | and then used the explode function during the replacement. A little later, I expanded the idea to:

   http://www.thesite.com|A good site|N|F

   Then in the code, that got exploded into:
   The URL, a phrase for the title attribute, N becomes rel=nofollow, and F for replacing the First occurrence only. A bit messy perhaps, but it was quicker than to modify all the form fields and such.

   Previously, in Joomla, I’ve used “Ludo Autolinkbot”, which works perfectly as far as I’ve noticed. Perhaps it would be interesting to see how the tricky bits are solved there? It can be found here:
   http ://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1575/Itemid,35/

   (sorry if I’m duplicating a post, but nothing seemed to happen when I pressed submit)

7. MartinMay 6th, 2008 at 3:11 am

   Hoi Tom,

   Your problems are caused by the plug-in’s simplistic search & replace routine. When I wrote it, I just needed to replace a few noun’s (Stonehenge does change much )

   The solution is simple: a little more advanced pattern match routine that ensures that each match is on a word boundary. I will find some time and modify the code.

   I will also have a look at the Joomla plugin you mentioned for ideas. Seems “simple” is over.

   Cheers,
   Martin

8. SeanMay 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am

   Great little plugin for SEO. I made a little improvement that you might want to check out - made matching case-insensitive, but the case from the document is preserved.

   For example, say the keyword in the db is StOneHenge, and your article has “Stonehenge” in it. The text will match, and the link anchor will be “Stonehenge” from the article.

   I did this by making a small mod to the replace function. Here’s my version:

   function bm_keywordlink_replace($content)
   {
   $links = get_option(BM_KEYWORDLINK_OPTION);

   if ($links)
   foreach ($links as $keyword => $details)
   {
   list($link,$nofollow,$firstonly) = explode(”|”,$details);

   $url = ” “;
   $url .= “$0“;
   $url .= ” “;

   if ($firstonly) $limit = 1; else $limit=-1;

   $content = preg_replace(”/\b$keyword\b/i”,$url,$content,$limit);
   }

   return $content;
   }

   You can see it in action on my blog: The Million-Dollar Dime

   Cheers,
   Sean

9. SeanMay 20th, 2008 at 5:53 am

   Whoops, messed up the link. Here’s the real one: The Million-Dollar Dime

10. MartinMay 20th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Hoi Sean,

    Many thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it when I have a moment. Success with reaching a million!

    Cheers,
    Martijn

11. StephJune 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    This plugin works well enough (my old autolinks plugin doesn’t seem to work with 2.5.1) but I’d like to make some suggestions:

    1. Ability to add more than one link at a time (batch add, 5 or more).

    2. Ability to edit/modify links (didn’t realize they were case sensitive, saw no way to edit, had to add a new one).

    3. Option to open links in new window (I modded the file to do this already).

    4. Bug: I had a link that had a keyword in the title attribute (title=”keyword”), and I got a weird error when I hovered over the link. It’s like it was trying to auto-link it. On a related note, I already did some manual links for keywords I’d like to add, and it auto-linked those as well. Would be nice if it would somehow ignore the ones that are already links.

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