Share to Google Stopped Working?

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  • Thread Starter Bubbles

    (@ciaobellaz)

    Since no one at Shareaholic has replied, I was forced to troubleshoot this myself. Here’s what I’ve figured out:

    — Bitly: I realized after posting that I had updated Bitly’s DNS info on my custom link shortening domain per an email I received from Bitly advising they were upgrading servers. I don’t know if this caused the problem, and Bitly also never responded to an inquiry sent to them, so I may never know. If you’re having problems with any of the social media buttons you have activated in Shareaholic, I suggest trying the default Shareaholic link shortening service and seeing if sharing works.

    — Featured Image: It was purely by accident that I realized the pages I was trying to share had no featured image (most of my pages do). If you don’t have one set, try setting one, and seeing if share to Google Plus works.

    — Sidebar Comment: I now realize that setting an image in the Share section of Yoast isn’t picked up by Shareaholic. So it may be the Yoast plugin that’s my problem and not Shareaholic — it’s a chicken/egg thing; not sure if Y is causing S angst or the other way around.

    Since I want both plugins and the featured image may or may not be set and I may or may not want the featured image to be the one shared, I’ve added this code to any pages/posts where I want to specify which image Google Plus picks up, and it’s worked for me so far: 

    <div class="none"><body itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Product">
  <h1 itemprop="name">PAGE TITLE HERE</h1>
  <img itemprop="image" src="IMAGE SOURCE URL HERE" />
  <p itemprop="description">TEXT TO DISPLAY HERE</p>
</body></div>

    Hope that’s helpful to someone.

    Thread Starter Bubbles

    (@ciaobellaz)

    P.S. My CSS has a class named “none” that is just “display: none.” That way I can insert comments to myself, like a bunch of asterisks marking a spot inside the page code or content I know I will set to display tomorrow, but leave it hidden for today. You need to specify that the code noted above shouldn’t display, or else it will …

    And, yes, I know it’s bad form to insert body tags inside the body — but a girl wants what a girl wants. And this one is more concerned with shares on G+ than validating. ??

    Plugin Author Shareaholic

    (@shareaholic)

    @ciaobellaz thanks so much for providing such great information! Question — would you want the Shareaholic plugin to pick up the featured image that you select within Yoast automatically and give it priority over the in-built “featured image” function in WP?

    Thread Starter Bubbles

    (@ciaobellaz)

    Hi, Shareaholic! I would like that “if” there is a Yoast image set, Shareaholic use it; “else,” pick up the featured image. So I think that is YES to the question as you phrased it.

    And, in a perfect world, if neither image is set, it can either show me no image (which would alert me to set one of the two), which I think would be a default action already, yes?, or it can pick up the first JPG or PNG on the page (there is always at least one on a page).

    Plugin Author Shareaholic

    (@shareaholic)

    @ciaobellaz got it, thank you! The plugin tries to pick up the first PNG/JPG in the document already, but Facebook/G+ have size preferences, and sometimes the image selected is too small.

    Thread Starter Bubbles

    (@ciaobellaz)

    Ahhhh … well, that makes sense, since size does matter and all that. ??

    Thank you, @shareaholic!

    Plugin Author Shareaholic

    (@shareaholic)

    You’re welcome! Will try to build in the support for Yoast Featured Images soon!

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