LinkedIn user name in Social Media Widget
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I am using Edin theme. My LinkedIn button is showing but when you click it – it goes to an error message from LinkedIn that says there is no link and shows you how to search for users.
I have cut and pasted my LinkedIn URL – did not work
I have simply put in my First Name and Last Name – didn’t workHow do I do this?
DorisThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I just tried your website and was able to reach your linkedin account immediately. It looks like you fixed it yourself!
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I am having this same issue and have tried all the same things you did, including getting the same error message when I text it on the live site.
How did you resolve this?
My blog is takingtheplunge2.wordpress.com
Thx!
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Hi
It was one of those silly little things. As I recall the problem was that I had copied by LinkedIn URL which was fine. BUT LinkedIn already had populated the box with the https://, so it rejected linking me because the URL was incorrect.( as in it had two https showing ) So I just truncated my copying of the link so that I could shorten it so that it would work with LinkedIn.Hope that makes sense.
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I am so glad it worked out.
These silly things can drive you crazy, not to mention waste a lot of time.
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I am having a similar problem but with a Company Page on LinkedIn, when I copy the URL across, even just part of it, it seems to be adding in the “/in/” into the URL automatically which I assume points to individuals rather than companies on LinkedIn therefore making my page link to some random man in Oslo rather than the intended company page – any suggestions?
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If you know what LinkedIn is doing automatically can you work your URL out so that it is in the right configuration for LinkedIn? I am not sure what the configuration is for a company as opposed to an individual. I suppose you could look up a company on LinkedIn and note how they display the URL there and then adjust yours in the same way?
Have you tried asking LinkedIn how to do this- since it is probably their issue not a WordPress issue?
Sorry this is the best I can do. Also if you scroll up you will see that politicswithcoffee was going to respond but I had fixed my own problem. Maybe you could approach him/her for ideas?
Good luck.
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Here’s a work around for linking to Company pages in Linked in.
Add a Text widget to the side bar using the code from: https://socialmediawidgets.wordpress.com/
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I am trying to add the social media icons to my site (Gateway theme), put the ‘username’ that WP asks for, and save. When I click on the icon, I get an error message. Am I supposed to put the URL of the page where WP asks for username? Weird.
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