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[mmartion]

In order to avoid confusion, I thought I would open up a new thread for this topic.

I have tried 2 different plugins to get articles that I publish on my website (blog) to share to my Facebook Page timeline. in both instances, nothing showed up, nor did anything show in my private timeline (see image: 2016-05-12_0711_Ontraq_Page_Timeline). Yet when I run the debugger for any of the articles (only 1 chosen here) the system return nil errors (see image: 2016-05-12_0710_Sharing_Debugger). Note the screenshot of the timeline was take after the debugger was run, and after refreshing the browser, and emptying the page cache (in the WP admin).

So, I guess I have 2 questions:
1. What am I doing/not doing that causes my shares not to show in FB; or is it an FB bug issue?

2. Do the standard plugins that come with X – along with say the publicize option of Jetpack – are these able to accomplish sharing of articles etc as good as other plugins? if so, what is the best way to set these up?

Thanks for the help guys!

Michael.

[mmartion]

try the 2nd pic again…

[mmartion]

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[Lely]

Hello Michael,

Thank you for the complete information.
Unfortunately, I can’t duplicate the issue you were having. I tried to share the link and it is showing fine on my timeline. See attached screenshot.

If you need to further improve, please install a plugin like WordPress SEO by Yoast and check the following post (https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/social-sharing-images/#post-827877).

Hope this helps.

[mmartion]

No no no: you’re missing the point.

Neither Yoast SEO nor All-In-One SEO plugins share/post directly to the Ontraq timeline.

Correct me if I am wrong, but what you did (I think) was share the post directly onto your timeline from the blog post.

What is SUPPOSED to happen is for the post to be sent to the Ontraq timeline, as it gets published, and/or updated. This is not happening. I had Yoast SEO installed on another site in the past (with a different theme though) and it posted the article links to the Page timeline just fine; in this instance it doesn’t (nor does All-in-One either for that matter). This is why I included the screenshot of the page timeline to show that after 6 articles having been published in the last week, none are yet to show in the timeline.

Surely I shouldn’t have to manually go back to the post after publishing, and manually share it?

I had been using Yoast until recently, when I come to the conclusion that whatever settings changes I made, articles still wouldn’t post to the Ontraq timeline. So I disabled all the settings, installed All-In-One SEO, and put all those settings in place, and it still didn’t work.

Also, can you tell me how you are getting it to share to your FB timeline: when I click the FB button at the bottom of the page it does nothing for me other than open in a new tab (there’s no share to my timeline)?

Also also, please refer to my original questions above.

Thanks.

[mmartion]

BTW: what country are you guys in? … so I know when to post questions and replies .

Thanks.

[Rahul]

We answer 24/7 but we answer to posts from oldest to newest. So you can drop in your question and we answer when the posts before you are cleared!

Thanks

[mmartion]

Any ideas RE: the reply above?

[Joao]

Hi there,

I will need to ask help for you to clarify the issue, I am a bit confused.

Yoast or All-in-One-SEO are SEO optmization plugins they do not offer the functionality of automaticly upload your posts to Facebook or G+.

Were you perhaps referring to this?

If you say that you have this functionality perfectly working in another website, it could be possible that you have another plugin installed that offers this functionality and you may be mistaking with these ones, is it possible?

Let us know your thoughts and please if possible post a screenshot or a list of all the plugins you have installed in the other website where you mentioned this functionality is working accordingly.

Thanks and we will be waiting your reply so we can better assist you.

Joao

[mmartion]

Hi.

I’ve found a resolve to this issue. Installed Next Scripts: Social Networks Auto Poster plugin. this works a treat right off the bat.

I’ll go back to Yoast SEO but wont bother using that functionality of their plugin.

But as a slightly different topic: Sharing buttons? Where (if at all) in the bundled plugins or theme settings can these get turned on so that visitors can share to their timeline if they wish?

The standard X button in the footer only redirect to the actual page; they dont offer sharing (or not that Ive expereinced anyway).

Thanks.

[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

The social icons in the topbar and the footer are links to your social network profiles. The social sharing element is a Cornerstone element which you can add in your page or post.

If you want to automatically add social share button on top or at the bottom all of your posts, please check out this topic:
https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/social-share-options/#post-620006

[mmartion]

Hi guys – I installed the code as suggested and this has worked a treat. But I don’t suppose you have a way that the sharing icons can be limited to posts only (not pages); currently this is site-wide.

Thanks.

[Rahul]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in!

To achieve that, please replace your code with this:

add_action('x_before_the_content_end', function() {
  if ( is_singular('post') ) {
    echo do_shortcode('[share title="Share this Post" facebook="true" twitter="true" google_plus="true" linkedin="true" pinterest="true" reddit="true" email="true"]');
  }
});

Thanks!

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