Function to override link format

James
(@drabello)

12 years ago

Hello, I have to enable a GA event tracking on the title links, something like this:

<a>" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'ClickOut', 'ContenBlog']);" target="_blank"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

However, links imported via the plugin doesn’t follow this format, even been changed on the theme. So whats the best approach to do this?

Thanks.

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Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

12 years ago

technically all the plugin does is put the title in the database and then wordpress does the rest (including any links). However, there is a function called ta_modified_post_title in the import_posts.php file that I created where you can modify some properties in the link….that’s where I suggest putting you tracking.

Thread Starter James
(@drabello)

12 years ago

Thank you so much for the fast response. Awesome man.

Do you know if it is possible to override this with a function on my Child theme functions.php? That way I could keep the plugin updated in a safe way.

Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

12 years ago

i imagine you could put that function anywhere, and your functions.php file should be fine.
Thread Starter James
(@drabello)

12 years ago
Sry to disturb Allen,

I found the function you mentioned:
```
function ta_modified_post_title ($title) {
	$post_options = get_option('rss_post_options');
	$targetWindow=$post_options['targetWindow'];
	if($targetWindow==0){
		$openWindow='class="colorbox"';
	}elseif ($targetWindow==1){
		$openWindow='target=_self';
	}else{
		$openWindow='target=_blank';
	}

  if ( in_the_loop() && !is_page() ) {
	global $wp_query;
	$postID=$wp_query->post->ID;
	$myLink = get_post_meta($postID, 'rssmi_source_link' , true);
		if (!empty($myLink)){
			$myTitle=$wp_query->post->post_title;
			$myLinkTitle='<a href='.$myLink.' '.$openWindow.'>'.$myTitle.'</a>';  // change how the link opens here
		return $myLinkTitle;
			}
  }
  return $title;
}
```
However I have no ideia how to put this inside:

onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'ClickOut', 'ContenBlog']);"

Any tips? thank you
Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

12 years ago
well, my first shot would be to change this line:
```
$myLinkTitle='<a href='.$myLink.' '.$openWindow.'>'.$myTitle.'</a>';
```
to this:
```
$myLinkTitle='<a href="#" onclick='_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'ClickOut', 'ContenBlog']);">'.$myTitle.'</a>';
```
Thread Starter James
(@drabello)

12 years ago

Unfortunately I am getting this error with that code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘_trackEvent’ (T_STRING) in /…/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 209

Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

12 years ago

Ok. Get replace double quotes with single quotes
Thread Starter James
(@drabello)

12 years ago
Hi Allen, I am starting to think that is not possible to add a GA EventTracking through a wordpress function. 😉 It did not work.

The link keeps messy:

<a "contenblog"]);"="" "clickout",="" _trackevent",="" onclick="_gaq.push([" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/.../">Link Title</a>

So I am gonna change my question, I changed my code to add a nofollow rel Attribute to the link, now it´s like this:
```
function ta_modified_post_title ($title) {
	$post_options = get_option('rss_post_options');
	$targetWindow=$post_options['targetWindow'];
	if($targetWindow==0){
		$openWindow='class="colorbox"';
	}elseif ($targetWindow==1){
		$openWindow='target=_self';
	}else{
		$openWindow='target=_blank';
		$relNofollow='rel="nofollow"';
	}

  if ( in_the_loop() && !is_page() ) {
	global $wp_query;
	$postID=$wp_query->post->ID;
	$myLink = get_post_meta($postID, 'rssmi_source_link' , true);
		if (!empty($myLink)){
			$myTitle=$wp_query->post->post_title;
			$myLinkTitle='<a href='.$myLink.' '.$openWindow.' '.$relNofollow.'>'.$myTitle.'</a>';  // change how the link opens here
		return $myLinkTitle;
			}
  }
  return $title;
}
```
As you can see I added a $relNofollow=’rel=”nofollow”‘; and then added ‘.$relNofollow.’ to the link format. Working perfect! Is this code ok?

I also tried to add the EventTracking this way but no success.

Sry to disturb man, keep the good work!
Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

12 years ago

yes, that should work fine.

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