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What happens if you disable the WooCommerce Cloak Affiliate Links plugin?

The affiliate URL that you receive from the platform doesn’t fully encode the “redirect_url” value.

Can you try pasting this into your product url field:

//event.2performant.com/events/click?ad_type=quicklink&aff_code=c3e1f74f4&unique=77ba9e67f&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicco.ro%2Fblackweek.html

Hi

Did you activate the plugin?

Did you go here WordPress Admin Area > Settings > Permalinks and click the [Save Changes] button?

The link you provided just says, “Coming Soon”.

Thanks
Eric

Thanks for sharing! I’ve posted a workaround here so you don’t have to edit the core plugin code:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-after-update-9/#post-9370361

Hi

It seems the issue is with how WooCommerce encodes the URL before it is saved to the database.

Here’s the URL I entered into an External product’s Product URL field (without http://www.):

shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=713139&U=1693&M=58539&urllink=

And here is the value stored in the database:

shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=713139&U=1693&M=58539&urllink=

I added this code to a custom plugin and it fixed the issue:

/**
 * Fix encoded ampersands.
 *
 * WooCommerce was saving & as &. This code
 * converts the encoded ampersands back to a regular ampersand.
 */
add_filter( 'wccal_filter_url', 'mycode_decode_ampersand', 20, 2 );
function mycode_decode_ampersand( $external_link, $post_id ) {
	$external_link = html_entity_decode( $external_link, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 );

	return $external_link;
}

Here’s how to create a custom plugin: https://datafeedrapi.helpscoutdocs.com/article/32-creating-your-own-custom-plugin

Hope this helps!

Eric

@phuggett Thanks so much!

With WordPress, your robots.txt file is dynamically generated. Opening the robots.txt on your server (for example, via FTP) will not actually show you the contents of the dynamically generated robots.txt file.

Hi

Can we try the following…

1. Enable the cloaking plugin

2. Go to the product page that doesn’t work.

3. Copy the [buy now] button’s full URL.

4. Go here http://www.datafeedr.com/url-resolver

5. Enter the URL into the “URL” field and click [Submit]

6. Take a screenshot or copy and paste the details into a .txt file. I will need to see the full results.

7. Send me a link to your screenshot or .txt file.

8. Don’t forget to deactivate the cloaking plugin again.

I will take a look at the results from the URL resolver to see if I notice anything or not.

Thanks
Eric