Link to signup page from an external website

Link to signup page from an external website

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Jamshid

Member — 12th January 2012 (4 months ago)

Hi - Is there anyway I can link to the signup page (signup-xxx) from an external website.

The signup page is set to change every 24 hours, I want to start an ad campaign on facebook linking directly to the signup page.

Is it possible to do this?

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Member — 12th January 2012 (4 months ago) #

I tried this in the past and it's not possible to run the php function from a different server.

You could make a simple html or php redirect site that redirects people to the url by using the php function as the page that it's redirecting to. But if spambots finds that page you will be flooded with signups again.

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Support Kangaroo — 12th January 2012 (4 months ago) #

Greetings :-)

we ourselves are using the cats identification and have not been flooded with signups at all in a year our first network has been online.

No you wont be able to redirect to a constantly changing URL.

Therefore you may want to change your method of protecting the possible spam signups to something other then changing url if you want to direct to this specific page :-)

Joe :-)

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Sales & Support Pro — 12th January 2012 (4 months ago) #

Hiya!

Yep, as Qlof and Joe state it's not possible to detect the current signup URL from an external site I'm afraid - the relevant functions simple aren't made available outside of your WordPress installation.

Thanks,
Phil

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