postbit member homepage link doesn't

I have a feeling this might be a vBSEO issue, so I thought I would duplicate my troubleshooting question over at vBulletin.com here:

I don't know why I hadn't noticed it before, but my member's links to their home pages do not work in the drop-down menu in the postbit. The pointer turns to a hand, but clicking the link only causes the drop-down to close -- address doesn't show in the status bar at the bottom of the browser either.

Here is the code from postbit template:

Code:

<if condition="$show['homepage']">
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$post[homepage]"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[visit_xs_homepage]</phrase></a></td></tr>
</if>

I tried changing it to the code found in MEMBERINFO template associated with the user's home page:

Code:

<if condition="$show['homepage']">
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$userinfo[homepage]" target="_blank" dir="ltr"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[visit_xs_homepage]</phrase></a></td></tr>
</if>

But that only linked the text to my forum home page, not the member's home page (at least the forum address showed in the status bar).

I checked the vB default style, which I have made no edits to, and the code is exactly the same. Does anyone have a clue why this might be happening?

Thanks,

Jim (running vB 3.6.2)

Try turning off the Analytics External Link Tracking option in vBSEO's control panel.

Thank you for the very quick reply, Keith. That did allow the links to work again. But now there is no Google tracking of the links. Is that a bug in the vBSEO system or is this an insignificant issue?

Thanks again,

Jim

Hello Jim,

dropdown menu code in the new vBulletin version works in the way that doesn't allow to use onclick handler for it. You can add rel="novbseo" to the link in template to exclude them from processing:

HTML Code:

<a rel="novbseo" href="$post[homepage]">

and enable VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO option in config_vbseo.php file:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO',   1); 


That does the trick. Thanks, Oleg.

You are welcome

Works beautifully. This problem left me clueless until I thankfully stumbled upon this thread. Now my dropdown menus to outside links works perfectly as they did before.

Thanks Oleg!

How is this effected by vBulletin 3.6.7 (or higher)?

It works in the same way in the latest vB as far as I know.

FYI...The patch also works for the latest v3.6.8