website coding
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I use my WordPress website for instruction in an elementary school computer lab with students from K to 5th grades. The site is comprised of lists of links to educational games for the students to access. All of my links are working great except for one. When I click on the link at home and from the computer at my desk at school, the link works perfectly, and goes right to the link where I want it. When students click on the link from their computers, using a generic student login, it takes them to a different page. The tech guys in my school tell me that the way the site is coded on my link is “redirecting” students. They showed me the way it should be “coded” which involves lots of question marks and back slashes. Can you give me some guidance on thish coding?
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Well, what is the link in question? Post it here please and also tell us exactly where it can be found on your blog.
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P.S. There’s a deleted blog linked to your username
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The authors have deleted this site.To change that and link your username to your active blog see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/06/link-your-username-to-your-blog/
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my site is weigellab.wordpress.org. Click on Language Arts at the top and go down to Charlotte’s Web, which is #5 on the list. I have it set up to come up to
http://www.scholastic.com/charlottesweb/comic/index.htm
but when students link to it on their machines it comes up to a sales page of scholastic’s site. -
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http://weigellab.wordpress.com/language-arts/
Is the page you are having trouble with
Links that can be clicked on make it easier for people to help you
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yep…every link can be clicked on.
weigellab.wordpress.com
click on language arts
scroll down the page; you’ll see a list
when you get to #5, charlottes web, click on the WORDS Charlotte’s Webthe page I WANT it to come up to is:
http://www.scholastic.com/charlottesweb/comic/index.htmbut it’s being redirected on some computers to a scholastic book sales page.
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Hi Michelle,
This link seems to be working great every time and way in which I test it. Is it possible that your students are accessing the internet through accounts which may have specific rules or permissions that may be getting in the way? If you could even get from your tech guys the exact link which they said should be used instead then I could walk you through putting it in place.
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this is what my tech guys tell me:
http://helpdesk.epiphanymgmt.com/otrs/customer.pl?TicketID=75264
> The error is with the website code. We tested a regular reference link:
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> <a title=?”Charlotte’s Web”
> href=?”http:?/?/?www.scholastic.com/?charlottesweb/?comic/?index.htm”
> target=?”_blank”>?Charlotte’s Web??
>
> And it worked fine. The link as generated on the page is this:
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> <a title=?”Charlotte’s Web”
> href=?”http:?/?/?www.scholastic.com/?charlottesweb/?comic/?index.htm”
> target=?”_blank” sl-processed=?”1″ data-skimlinks-orig-link>?Charlotte’s
> Web??
>
> This link is causing WordPress to redirect on some machines. It will
> need to
> be changed to a standard ‘a href’ link to function correctly across all
> browsers and machines.
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Hi Michelle,
I just went and verified the link again and it absolutely is a standard link. The only thing I can imagine is that the non-alphabet characters were encoded strangely. Just to be safe I went ahead and removed the link and re-added it.
Please go ahead and check the link to see if it works. If it doesn’t, I would definitely need some more information about how the kids’ browsers/computers are different from yours so that I could see why you and I are able to pull it up but they are not.
Let me know!
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As an additional thought from a fellow teacher, if amightywp’s fix does not work (Lord knows being a teacher [I teach 9-12] means having a back-up plan to your back-up plan), you might consider just having one student manually type in the address without going through your WordPress site. That way if it works the error is probably WordPress related. If the website still doesn’t come-up the error is somewhere else.
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not sure what a URL shortener is.
I’ve bookmarked the site on all the computers in the lab, and it works perfectly, so the problem is NOT the site.
Thanks for your help.
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A link shortener is a service such as Bit.ly which will take a longer link and make it shorter for ease of use. As an example, your link on bit.ly looks like this:
You can try linking to that on your site instead, just in case there is something going awry with the link itself (not the site, just the link).
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ok — I changed the link, so I’ll try it on the kids’ machines tomorrow. After you tried to update it yesterday, that didn’t work today. I’ll let you know if this works tomorrow. At least the bookmark on each computer is working well, but kind of a pain. I really do appreciate all your help.
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I’m sorry to hear that didn’t work. So you know, tomorrow starts my weekend, but if you respond one of my coworkers will see your response and will be happy to help out!
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the link shortener didn’t work…Bit.ly blocked by our filter at school. So I’m still just bookmarking the site I’ve got on my link. :((
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Might it work if you use Twitter to shorten the link? Also, WordPress has its own shortener, which is obscure enough that maybe your IT department doesn’t block it. You can get the shortlink to any post from that post’s page, on the Admin bar.
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not clear on this, but willing to try. I’m in the edit page and when I go to my Charlotte’s Web link, I should see a “shortlink” somewhere?
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