Social Media Icons: Linkedin URL incorrect format

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  lefteyelez · Member · Jun 21, 2015 at 2:19 am

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  The URL generated by the Social Media Icons widget for Linkedin adds an additional “/in” in the URL. Thus doesn’t work for a user’s account. Using Gateway theme.

  Same problem, this thread discusses: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-url-format-is-incorrect-and-so-doesnt-link

  Is this going to be fixed? I believe this is a wordpress.com issue and not the theme?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  ariwinokur · Member · Jun 21, 2015 at 3:30 am

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  This is specific to the theme, not WordPress.com The majority of LinkedIn profile pages are set up as linkedin.com/in/{username} when you customize them; for example, mine is http://linkedin.com/in/ariwinokur.

  I have tagged this thread so that it can be addressed by a staff member and be moved to the themes support forum. Please make sure you are subscribed to this thread so that you know when the staff member responds. You can subscribe by clicking the “Subscribe to Topic” link on the right.

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  lefteyelez · Member · Jun 21, 2015 at 3:43 am

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  Thank you. Hmm, my url and many others is https://www.linkedin.com/pub/{username}.

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  ariwinokur · Member · Jun 21, 2015 at 5:17 am

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  While we are waiting for staff to handle this topic, I checked on LinkedIn. Please take a look at this article on LinkedIn about customizing your Public Profile URL. This may help resolve your issue.

  https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/87/kw/profile+url

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 23, 2015 at 10:17 am

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  Hi there,

  Have you customized your LinkedIn profile URL with the guide ariwinokur mentioned? That will set you up with a LinkedIn URL like http://www.linkedin.com/in/yourname, which is the format the social media icons widget uses.

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  lefteyelez · Member · Jun 25, 2015 at 12:22 am

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  Yes, that worked. Thank you.

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  ariwinokur · Member · Jun 25, 2015 at 12:33 am

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  Glad to hear you got things working again!