#3 or #4 is better than a metatag but yeah it's out of hand.

Yes, I also think that it's linkback abuse.

See also the b2evolution.net homepage:
Latest Donors, Recommended hosting and Sponsored Links.
There's also "Recently updated blogs" (which all have a linkback), but they are marked with rel="nofollow"!

There's also a lot of "paid links" in the manual: http://manual.b2evolution.net/Tested_host

For the b2evolution.net homepage, that I accept and have no problem with, as it is on the b2evolution's website, not mine. I don't want to see someone else's sponsors on my website.

You have the power to change this don't you blueyed? Or at least put a request to Francois?

If you don't want the links on your own website then just edit _main.php and remove them?

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Already done, but shouldn't have to.

/conf/_overrides_TEST.php

<?php
$credit_links = array();
?>

That should be future proof ;)

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Yeah that is better than my skin hacks :)

How would I go about adding my own credit link into that, so say I have a option in my plugins saying, show credit link, and when it is ticked, I add a credit link?

No worries ;)

In your plugin use anything that triggers before the links are output ( SkinBeginHtmlHead is probably your best bet ), just global the variable and add your own link to the array ( based on the setting ) ;)

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So i'm guessing

global $credit_links;
$credit_links[] = array(
'name' => $this->name,
'url' => $this->author_url
// maybe reason and stuff go here? any other things?
);

Or just array(name, url)?

Dunno, I've never shown/altered the credit links ..... unless I use a bog standard skin ....... I'm sure it's documented somewhere and if not it'll only take yah 2 edits to find out ;)

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Come on Yabba your meant to know everything! :P

It took you longer to type that than edit twice and gain knowledge ;)

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A checkbox that defaults to unchecked and needs to be checked for plugin credits to show up in that array is a great way to request link-love for a plugin. When you figure it out you should share it for all plugin authors.

¥åßßå wrote:

/conf/_overrides_TEST.php

<?php
$credit_links = array();
?>

That should be future proof ;)

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Doesn't work as they are included in the /inc/_vars.inc.php.

So I just added a if ( false ) above it.

EdB wrote:

A checkbox that defaults to unchecked and needs to be checked for plugin credits to show up in that array is a great way to request link-love for a plugin. When you figure it out you should share it for all plugin authors.

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=57960#57960

I don't really see a problem in that linkback stuff :roll:

Didn't even realize those links were there at the bottom. "web hosts", "money" WTF?

Anwyway they're gone now :)

I don't mind the meta generator and the sidebar image (I like b2evo, i'll support it), bit i'm not happy with affiliate links, who do they think will click those anyway?

I don't even know whether or not to care about the HTML comment or not, I mean nobody actually sees it.

Just upgraded to 2.4 (from 1.10 - actually I'm only testing at the moment the public site is still on 1.10) and am disappointed with this.

Like others here, I've no problem linking to the b2evo site. I've amended the ASEVO skin and am probably going to keep their link there too, but I don't want spam at the bottom of my blog.

I saw the footer file in the skin I was editing which directed me to the conf directory (but not the _application.php file where the credit_links is set up). But the offending links weren't even there.

I had to go into /inc/_vars.inc.php, search for "credit" and comment out the line that did the array merge with some serialised data or something.

It shouldn't be that hard to remove. By commenting out that array assignment statement I've also managed to remove the link back to b2evo (which I didn't really want to do - I still have the image link in the sidebar though).

Just my 2p.

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14291 explains how to remove the undesirable elements and retain the traditional link-back to b2evolution in the footer. I'm pretty sure someone came up with a simpler method but I didn't mark it as watched so I don't know where it is.

Thanks for the heads up.

It came from me ;) [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14463]remove credits[/url] ... but EdB's goes to the effort of adding hover titles to the replacement links ;)

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