Need help with comment tags

I have vBSEO HTML cleanup turn on. There are several places in the vb templates where I've put HTML comment tags around bloated default VB template items, so vBSEO can strip these out of the final HTML output. So I can't turn off HTML cleanup.

Here's the problem, I've recently installed Infolinks for thread display and cms articles. Its turning signature items, breadcrumbs, etc. into infolink links. Infolinks has comment tags similar to Adsense:

<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->
<!--INFOLINKS_OFF-->

I put one before and one after the post content in VB's template. Same thing for CMS article content. vBSEO's HTML cleanup strips these out. I tried using VB's replacement variables to accomplish this, by changing:

<!--INFOLINKS_ON--> to <INFOLINKS_ON>
and
<!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> to <INFOLINKS_ON>

and then setting replacement variables to change them back in the final output. The problem is the vBSEO HTML clean appears to take place after replacement variables, so they are still stripped out.

How do I accomplish what I need to do?

Thanks in advance.

Also, I need to change my user id. I haven't been associated with the site named in my user id for several years.

Hi Ken,

Some time ago, a customer had a similar issue. Although I haven't tested this yet, you can try to modify vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo.php file:

Find:

PHP Code:

$newtext = preg_replace(
array(  '#(<pre[^>]*?>)(.*?)(</pre>)#eis', 


Add above:

PHP Code:

preg_match_all('#(<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->.*?<!--INFOLINKS_OFF-->)#is', $newtext, $exclm, PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach($exclm as $xi=>$xc)$newtext = str_replace($xc[1], '[clean_excl'.$xi.']', $newtext); 


Find:

PHP Code:

"\n"
),
$newtext); 


Add below:

PHP Code:

foreach($exclm as $xi=>$xc)$newtext = str_replace('[clean_excl'.$xi.']', $xc[1], $newtext); 


Please let us know how it goes.

I found a cleaner/quick way, lol.

Installed mod_pagespeed. Turned off vbseo's html cleanup and turned on mod_pagespeed's html cleanup. Then added adsense and infolink comment tag exclusions to mod_pagespeed. I posted this here so others might find it helpful if they run into the same sort of issue. I try to avoid modifying php code when I can... I'm proficient with php but I hate going back and redoing modifications when a new version of vb, a plug in or tool like vbseo has an upgrade.

About the user name change, should I put in a support ticket for that?

Awesome, Ken!

Thank you for sharing your feedback!

Originally Posted by ford-trucks.com

About the user name change, should I put in a support ticket for that?

Sure.