Custom sharing URL problem (bug?) with weibo and others
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I’ve set up a lot of custom sharing options. The problem is that some, such as weibo, want the %post_url% formatted differently and give an error/won’t post otherwise.
The weibo icon is under More and looks like an eye with a red eyelid.
Example giving an error:
http://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftraumadissociation.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F02%2F22%2Fpolyfragmented-did1%2F&title=PolyfragmentedExample not giving an error:
http://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftraumadissociation.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F02%2F22%2Fpolyfragmented-did1%2F&title=Polyfragmentednote that the https needs changing to http and the URL encoding seems to cause a problem
http://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https://traumadissociation.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/polyfragmented-did1&title=Polyfragmented%20Dissociative%20Identity%20Disorder%20facts
Working sharing link (can be slow to load) –
http://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=http://traumadissociation.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/polyfragmented-did1&title=Polyfragmented%20Dissociative%20Identity%20Disorder%20factsI’m currently checking to see if renren and tencent have similar problems (baidu share works)
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The code I’m using is from here
http://blog.duncanworthy.me/misc/how-to-add-chinese-social-media-sharing-links-on-wordpress
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I just gave this a look, and it doesn’t appear as though any of the URLs you provided are working to share to Weibo at the moment (on my side). I did give this a try on a custom domain test site that I have up and running. The default sharing URL provided here seemed to work correctly:
http://blog.duncanworthy.me/misc/how-to-add-chinese-social-media-sharing-links-on-wordpress/
So, I suspect the issue might be the https/http conflict you mentioned. All .wordpress.com URLs are automatically forced to HTTPS so I’m afraid there isn’t a way you can specify the HTTP URL for your site. The only workaround would be to purchase a custom domain as explained here:
Currently, we can’t provide certificates for HTTPS sites so your URL would always default to HTTP.
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This is clearly a bug in wordpress.com around http/https. Suggesting a purchase of a custom domain isn’t a reason option.
Sina weibo is the largest Chinese language social network. Can staff look at either implementing their own sharing for it, or providing a %post_url% equivalent that doesn’t use HTTPS exclusively.
There’s a lot of demand sharing to China/Taiwan/Hong Kong especially
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Update: the sina weibo http/https bug is still there
Renren now works after a code change
Tencent weibo is causing problems with ALL wordpress.com sites
eg this link works –
http://share.v.t.qq.com/index.php?c=share&a=index&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftraumadissociation.com%2F&title=Howbut this does not
http://share.v.t.qq.com/index.php?c=share&a=index&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftraumadissociation.wordpress.com%2F&title=HowSimilarly, en.support.wordpress.com doesn’t work. They just displays “page can’t be displayed” – can you shed some light on this?
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Jeremey’s right that we enforce HTTPS on all .wordpress.com addresses, for security, and the only workaround to the issue you reported is to register a custom domain.
I’ve sent you a private email with some extra details around this. Can you please reply from there? Thanks!
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