Tag: redirects

  • My Favorite Firefox Addons

    My Favorite Firefox Addons

    For my own posterity in case I ever lose them, or if anyone is curious, here’s what I use:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-password-manager/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/edit-cookie/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-options/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhancement-suite/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/soundcloud-dl/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-camelizer-price-history-ch/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image-in-google-images/
  • Logging Failed Redirects

    Logging Failed Redirects

    WordPress has a built-in function called wp_safe_redirect().  This allows you to create redirects in code, but only to whitelisted domains (via the allowed_redirect_hosts filter).

    The downside to this is that you have to remember to whitelist the domains.  It’s easy to forget if you’re doing a lot of redirects, for instance with the WPCOM Legacy Redirector plugin.

    When this happens, all un-whitelisted redirects will be redirected by default to /wp-admin/ instead, and can cause a headache trying to figure out what’s going wrong.

    I had an idea to solve this problem.  A simple logging plugin that logs failed redirects and adds a dashboard widget to show the domains and number of times the redirect has failed:

    The code behind this:

    <?php
    class Emrikol_WSRD_Dashboard {
    	public static function instance() {
    		static $instance = false;
    		if ( ! $instance ) {
    			$instance = new Emrikol_WSRD_Dashboard();
    		}
    		return $instance;
    	}
    
    	public function __construct() {
    		add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'init' ) );
    		add_filter( 'allowed_redirect_hosts', array( $this, 'check_redirect' ), PHP_INT_MAX, 2 );
    	}
    
    	public function init() {
    		if ( $this->is_admin() && isset( $_GET['wsrd_delete'] ) && check_admin_referer( 'wsrd_delete' ) && isset( $_GET['ID'] ) ) {
    			$post_id = (int) $_GET['ID'];
    
    			if ( 'wsrd' !== get_post_type( $post_id ) ) {
    				// This isn't the right post type, abort!
    				add_action( 'admin_notices', array( $this, 'message_log_not_deleted' ) );
    				return;
    			}
    
    			$delete = wp_delete_post( $post_id, true );
    			wp_cache_delete( 'wsrd_report' );
    
    			if ( $delete ) {
    				add_action( 'admin_notices', array( $this, 'message_log_deleted' ) );
    			} else {
    				add_action( 'admin_notices', array( $this, 'message_log_not_deleted' ) );
    			}
    		}
    
    		$args = array(
    			'supports' => array( 'title' ),
    			'public'   => false,
    		);
    		register_post_type( 'wsrd', $args );
    
    		add_action( 'wp_dashboard_setup', array( $this, 'add_dashboard_widgets' ) );
    	}
    
    	public function add_dashboard_widgets() {
    		if ( $this->is_admin() ) {
    			wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'emrikol_wsrd_dashboard', 'Failed Safe Redirects', array( $this, 'show_admin_dashboard' ) );
    		}
    	}
    
    	public function check_redirect( $allowed_hosts, $redirect_host ) {
    		if ( ! in_array( $redirect_host, $allowed_hosts, true ) ) {
    			// No redirect, please record.
    			$found_host = new WP_Query( array(
    				'fields'                 => 'ids',
    				'name'                   => md5( $redirect_host ),
    				'post_type'              => 'wsrd',
    				'post_status'            => 'any',
    				'no_found_rows'          => true,
    				'posts_per_page'         => 1,
    				'update_post_term_cache' => false,
    				'update_post_meta_cache' => false,
    			) );
    
    			if ( empty( $found_host->posts ) ) {
    				// No past redirect log found, create one.
    				$args   = array(
    					'post_name'  => md5( $redirect_host ),
    					'post_title' => $redirect_host,
    					'post_type'  => 'wsrd',
    					'meta_input' => array(
    						'count' => 1,
    					),
    				);
    				$insert = wp_insert_post( $args );
    			} else {
    				// Found!  Update count.
    				$count = absint( get_post_meta( $found_host->posts[0], 'count', true ) );
    				$count++;
    				update_post_meta( $found_host->posts[0], 'count', $count );
    			}
    		}
    		// We don't want to modify, always return allowed hosts unharmed.
    		return $allowed_hosts;
    	}
    
    	public function show_admin_dashboard() {
    		global $wpdb;
    
    		$report = wp_cache_get( 'wsrd_report' );
    		if ( false === $report ) {
    			$report = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT ID, post_title AS host, meta_value AS count FROM $wpdb->posts LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ( $wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id ) WHERE post_type='wsrd'  ORDER BY ABS( count ) DESC LIMIT 20;" );
    			wp_cache_set( 'wsrd_report', $report, 'default', MINUTE_IN_SECONDS * 5 );
    		}
    
    		?>
    		<style>
    			table#wsrd {
    				border-collapse: collapse;
    				width: 100%;
    			}
    			table#wsrd th {
    				background: #f5f5f5;
    			}
    
    			table#wsrd th, table#wsrd td {
    				border: 1px solid #f5f5f5;
    				padding: 8px;
    			}
    
    			table#wsrd tr:nth-child(even) {
    				background: #fafafa;
    			}
    		</style>
    		<div class="activity-block">
    			<?php if ( empty( $report ) ) : ?>
    			<p><strong>None Found!</strong></p>
    			<?php else : ?>
    			<table id="wsrd">
    				<thead>
    					<tr>
    						<th>Domain</th>
    						<th>Count</th>
    						<th>Control</th>
    					</tr>
    				</thead>
    				<tbody>
    					<?php foreach ( $report as $line ) : ?>
    						<tr>
    							<td><?php echo esc_html( $line->host ); ?></td>
    							<td><?php echo esc_html( $line->count ); ?></td>
    							<td><a href="<?php echo esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'wsrd_delete' => true, 'ID' => rawurlencode( $line->ID ) ), admin_url() ), 'wsrd_delete' ) ); ?>">Delete</a></td>
    						</tr>
    					<?php endforeach; ?>
    				</tbody>
    			</table>
    			<?php endif; ?>
    		</div>
    		<?php
    	}
    
    	public function message_log_deleted() {
    		echo '<div id="message" class="notice notice-success is-dismissible"><p>Redirect log deleted!</p></div>';
    	}
    
    	public function message_log_not_deleted() {
    		echo '<div id="message" class="notice notice-error is-dismissible"><p>Redirect log delete failed!</p></div>';
    	}
    
    
    	private function is_admin() {
    		if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
    			return true;
    		}
    		return false;
    	}
    }
    Emrikol_WSRD_Dashboard::instance();
    Code language: HTML, XML (xml)