Hi Ali,

Thanks for the feedback

Hi

You can the language manually however the automated process is not implemented.

Josh

You are the man!! I don’t have my FTP log in info on hand right now but I’ll send it to you on Monday. By the way, I was looking at your poll script, another awesome one, I’ll probably be be buying that. I really love your work!!

Hi, I emailed you from the envato form yesterday. I don’t know if that’s the best way to reach you to send FTP info.

Hi

I got your email. I will check this out today.

Josh

The code is in themes/default/components/shortener.php on line 50.

You can change the styles via the admin panel settings page. Here is a screenshot http://awesomescreenshot.com/09b30pwm8d

However if you want to select a custom color then you will need to change style.css in the theme folder. You can also select a style from the admin panel then change that style’s CSS file which is much easier. For example if you select the blue style then go to the theme folder then “styles” to find blue.css and the colors in that file.

Josh

Hi, thanks for reply, if its this easy I would nt ask you ;P I cant find the right for the BIG BLACK part !

Hi

section.dark {
      min-height: 30px;
      background-color: #151720;
      color: #fff;
}

Hi

Can you please open a ticket at http://support.gempixel.com and include your site so I can check this?

Josh

Found it

Great

Hi

This is possible but it will require a small change in the code. If you are interested, send me an email and I will send you instructions.

Josh

Hi

By “actual thumbnail”, do you mean whatever the target site is linking? This is only possible with direct method and system analytics. It is also possible to do this with other methods however you will need to explicitly fetch that and this a very resource extensive call. The black thumbnail simply means that the thumbnail is generating and sometimes you might see that for an extended period because facebook actually catches the thumbnails. So if facebook caches the thumbnail while it is generating then it will keep that for a certain period of time.

On a side note, I am looking at a optimal way to cache the thumbnails on the the server.

Josh

Yes.

Hi

Yeah the thumbnail generation is an issue I am looking to improve. The generation time depends on the site and most of them are overloaded due to them being free. You could give pagepeeker’s premium package a try however from personal experience there is no big difference between their free and premium package.

The only effective solution is caching however this could be a problem for most users due the amount of space available. For sites that have 1M+ URLs this would mean that they would need to host 1M+ thumbnails at around 50KB so they would need ~50 GB for the thumbnails alone.

If you want to remove the thumbnail, it is pretty easy to do. Email me or open a ticket and I will tell you what to do.

Josh

Thanks, i removed it with the Social Widget and i dont see any problems with it. another question please =) where can i define that the user can choise a custom url they want? i mean that all custom alias are written small like /shorturl i want that the user can choise something like: /ShortURL or /iLikeiT you know what i mean ? =) thanks

Hi

I understand what you mean however I personally think that is not a good idea, especially for search engines. You can still modify this by replacing strtolower($url) by $url in includes/Main.class.php on line 339.

Hi

1. What do you mean by confirmation?

2. This is planned.

3. This is not planned but it is not too hard to code. Will look into this for the next release.

Josh

Thank you very much. 1. I want to confirm each added short link. Option to have to select anonymous short links confirmation by admin, may be all.

Hi

It seems that jQuery 2.X doesn’t support IE 8 anymore. The easiest solution is to use jQuery version < 2.X.

Josh

Hello,

That is because the title is html encoded just to be safe since these info are automatically generated and not monitored. There are couple of things which are not necessary and I will change these in the next update. Can you open a ticket so I can provide you some instructions and if you can provide me ftp access so I can make the changes?

Josh

How to open ticket?

Via the support portal at http://support.gempixel.com

Found it…a little obscure, but it was there. Thanks.

Hi

Yep. All you need to do is to add /qr at the end of the short url. You can even change the size by adding the ?size parameter like /qr?size=300×300.

Josh

I found the answer to this question. Thanks.

Great If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Yeah! I left you a 5 star review already! It was super simple! I’ve already put things into motion!

Question. Can you provide a way to add “promo code” functionality for sign ups? When I promote it I would like to offer a discount to first sign ups but not particularly have to just adjust the prices and manually approve people under that discount, so to speak. If not this would be a good addon, you think?

Hi

Thanks for the rating

This is a popular suggestion and it is fairly simple to add it. I will add to the next version (an update with many requested features) which is set to be released in August because I will be away from mid-July to mid-August (Vacation ).

Josh

Hi Josh! Okay cool! Looking forward to it and again, thanks! This script is wonderful man!

Hi

You seem to be using direct method as the redirection type. In this case, the open graph data will depend on the target sitet. For example, the data for this URL http://tooleg.it/iNWgX will be fetched directly from the target site which this. So essentially the data will available if the target site made it available.

Josh

I see. Thank you

Hello

Those are great ideas. I am actually working on a smart spam filter that is composed of two parts. The first is very close to your first suggestion that is an automated spam check triggered to run every week. The second part relies on the admin and a report abuse feature. What this will do is that it will blacklist the url but will keep it in the database (it will delete all stats records of course to save memory). It will use that url as spam check to prevent all further shortening of all new urls that will look like that. I like your last suggestion. This will, of course, require some heavy work but I think I can make it happen. The new update that will hit the market in a month or two will be focused on spam filters and a couple of small new features.

Josh

Hi

I, personally, have never coded such thing so I will need to do a little research on this subject but I could this see a part of this script under the premium package. I am not sure what is the under-the-hood process when someone adds and uses a custom domain name. A little research will surely make things clear.

Josh

I asked on quora someone said

They would need to point their domain’s DNS records, probably the A record for the ‘naked’ domain, to your server at their registrar or DNS provider. Then they’d have to tell your system about the domain they added so you can recognize it as theirs in shortening requests.

On your side, for each shortening request, the script on your server would have to check for the domain doing the request, try to match that to a user, and only serve a URL if the URL matches the user.

not sure if this helps

Hi

That is exactly what I imagined the process however I would to actually code it and this where I am stuck. The second paragraph is really easy to implement however the issue is with the first paragraph. To make domain names unique to a user you would need to prevent everyone else from accessing and this is where there is a problem. The script is currently not designed to take this modification into account. Adding this will require a major structure change.

Hi

You cannot import .csv however I can easily generate you a .sql file that you will be able to import via phpmyadmin. You can open a ticket with your .csv file attached and I will gladly convert it for you.

Josh