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anna percival
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October 1, 2013 at 4:11 am
Hello,
We’ve got a site using event espresso and we’ve noticed that the LinkedIn button posts the wrong event. See here: http://qef.org.uk/events-listings/?ee=16
When you click the LinkedIn button, it actually shows a different and random event – but not the one we want it to!
Is this a known error?
Thanks,
Anna
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Josh
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October 1, 2013 at 7:43 am
Hi Anna,
Can you let us know the name of the plugin is that you are using to display a linked in button so we can investigate?
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anna percival
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October 2, 2013 at 2:25 am
Hi,
That’s interesting because I thought it was part of event espresso! The only social tool we’re using is ‘Social sharing toolkit’.
Thanks for your help!
Anna
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Dean
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October 2, 2013 at 3:02 am
Hi Anna,
My testing showed that the button is linking to the main event list. I couldnt get it to link to a random event as you mentioned.
The plugin is using Linkedin’s own javascript, and looking at that as far as I can make out it is taking the page url and stripping any additional content from it. What I mean is, the url is
http://qef.org.uk/events-listings/?ee=16
and it is stripping the ?ee=16 from it. This means that the button will share the main event list not the individual event.
Currently there isn’t much we can do about it as firstly we dont have access to the javascript as it is being pulled from the Linkedin site, and secondly the format of the URL is how Event Espresso works.
This sort of situation is something we are aware of and we are hoping to resolve as we improve the plugin.
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anna percival
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October 2, 2013 at 3:19 am
Hi Dean,
I see, thanks for taking a look.
Is there an alternative tool for social media that I can use that might work or would it be the same for all of them?
Is there any work around you can think of? Perhaps making the event a post some how so it has a URL or maybe there’s another tool that accepts the ‘?ee=16’ section of the URL that our one is cutting off?
Thanks,
Anna
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Dean
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October 2, 2013 at 4:16 am
Hi Anna,
I doubt another plugin would assist as it is Linkedins code that is doing this.
Yes, creating the event as a post, either using the Post system built into the event editor or adding the event via the [SINGLE_EVENT] shortcode https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#single-events would be a workaround, although if you have or plan to have a lot of events it may become unwieldy quickly.
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