I know a lot of you also check our WordPress Forums daily, but for those of you that don’t, I wanted to pass along the following alert from Nick Roy regarding the WP Marketer WordPress plugin.
For those unfamiliar with this WordPress plugin, it allows you to select keywords on your posts and pages and automatically convert them into in text ads and affiliate marketing links.
Unfortunately, it looks like there is a problem with this plugin. According to Nick:
A word of caution about the WP Marketer plugin. The WP-Marketer plugin was is causing the /feed URL and PHP to core dump. The system was segmentation faulting (segfault) when performing a regex for display of a particular portion of the page. For example, when I would click on my feed url, it would say page could not be displayed. Also, it would create a bunch of core dump files on my server causing the diskspace to fill up rather quickly. I deactivated and activated each plugin separately until I found that it was the WP Marketer plugin.
I have removed 50+ core files from my website account that had been generated through accesses of the /feed.
Hopefully the author will catch this and get a fix in place here shortly!
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
14 feature in theme looks quite interesting but yet have problem on SEO with some theme of Wordpress. 
Nicen themes, good work :) 
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Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
I use SEO SmartLinks
Those are some strange errors indeed, I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon.
Hello,
We have not received any report of this problem from users. That said we are looking into this issue immediately. Hopefully Nick will leave a report of his findings on the wpmarketer.com site so that we have more details.
Thanks,
Steve, WPMarketer Plugin Developer
@ Steve – Thanks for stopping by! Let me know once this is fixed and I’ll be happy to update our post.
as mentioned before seo smartlinks does the same thing and works very well.
It lacks tracking of clicks but that is a moot point
Thanks Kyle,
Unfortunately, we did not receive any details from Kyle. After further testing we can not duplicate the issue he reports. The WPMarketer plugin has been updated 7 times since we first released it in the wordpress plugin repository less than a month ago and nobody else has reported anything similar to this.
We did correct a problem with feeds several updates back but have never seen anything like the core dump he experienced.
If Nick can provide us with more details about his server configuration we are happy investigate it further. Otherwise, we assume he may have another issue with his site and/or server.
Thanks,
Steve
Donace,
I also use SEO Smart Links on several of my own sites and it is a very good plugin. However, please know that it does not provide link masking or the ability to set follow/nofollow attributes for auto links so there are some key differences.
Weird, I haven’t tried out the plugin yet, but I hope the plugin gets all fixed up soon!
@ Steve – If you read my original post above, the information was taken from one of the users of our message boards. I haven’t actually used this WordPress plugin yet.
I will see if they can send you some additional information to help your investigation!