Jo Sprague

Hi @myeclecticself

I can’t reproduce the issue you’re seeing. Can you show me the problem in action? The twitter username for the site comes directly out of what you have saved in the Yoast plugin under “Site Twitter Username”, and the twitter username for an author comes directly from “Twitter username (without @)” on the author profile. If you have entered “www.twitter.com…” in one of those fields, you could be seeing this. Just update those fields to contain only your Twitter username and not a full URL.

@ckubs Changing the URL from mywebsite(dot)com/my-article-url to mywebsite(dot)com/?p=123 won’t fit any more text into the tweet, since Twitter automatically shortens all URLs.

If you want to disable the plugin on a page, edit that page, and find the “Quotable” section on the page editor, and check the boxes to disable the plugin for that page.

I don’t know what could be causing the gap. It could be a CSS conflict with the theme, or it may not be related to the plugin at all. If you give me a link to the website that you have the plugin installed on, I can take a look for you. Otherwise, try to inspect the CSS, and see if your theme has any styles that are being applied to the #quotable-toolbar element.

At this time, I don’t have any plans to support link shorteners other than the native Twitter link shortener. But if you want to submit a pull request on GitHub, I’d be happy to consider adding it. https://github.com/josiahsprague/quotable-wp/

Did you ever find a solution?

You can selectively disable Quotable functionality per page. Just edit the page you want to disable it for, look for the Quotable section, and check the boxes to disable Quotable functionality.

At this time, I don’t have any plans to support link shorteners other than the native Twitter link shortener. But if you want to submit a pull request on GitHub, I’d be happy to consider adding it. https://github.com/josiahsprague/quotable-wp/

Ok. Glad you found the issue. If your theme conflicts with the CSS on #quotable-toolbar, you can add always custom CSS for that element in your theme. Would you recommend any CSS changes for the plugin?

@mzdesign Have you installed WordPress SEO and defined a Twitter account for your site? The @ tag won’t work without that.

Hi @mzdesign, what problems are you experiencing with 4.1?

@ckubs What do you think might not be working as it should? I can look into any issues.

Concerning the URL shortening feature, this is something I am not planning on adding, since Twitter already shortens URLs, and already has a feature in place for helping users shorten tweets that are too long. However, since this is an open source project, I will accept pull requests for those features here: https://github.com/josiahsprague/quotable-wp/

Using a custom link shortener is not possible at this time. For the purposes of shortening links, Twitter has a built in link shortening functionality.

I haven’t seen much demand for using custom link shorteners for branding/tracking purposes. I don’t have the time available to update the plugin to support those use cases, but feel free to modify the plugin and submit a pull request for the feature to be added.

Without more information it’s hard to tell why you’re not seeing the Twitter bird displayed. My guess is that there is a conflict with the theme you’re using. Perhaps the CSS file or icon font isn’t getting properly included, or there’s a conflict that overrides the color and makes the bird invisible.

Can you share a link to an affected page?

I’d really like to keep the person reading/sharing in control of what goes into the tweet. The idea of this plugin is to make it easy for your readers to share what they want to share. A reader may want to share a longer quote, and leave off the tags to make it fit, or they may want to shorten a tweet by making manual edits to the quote.

@clifford, I’m not sure what you’re seeing. The plugin shouldn’t be cutting anything off.

Encoding it with %25 would work, but it might be awhile before I have time to get the plugin to do that.

Hi Chris,

Looks like the problem is not the link (Quotable actually strips those out and converts them to plain text), but the “77%” in the quote. The % symbol isn’t properly encoded, so it breaks the URL that is requested from Twitter. I’ll add this to my radar of things to improve, but I may not get around to it until after the holidays, so a quick workaround for you could be to change the quote to say “77 percent” for now.

My guess is that the issue you’re seeing is theme related. The plugin uses wp_enqueue_scripts to insert quotable.js in the footer, but depending on the theme, that might not work. Can you check and see if quotable.js is included on the page?