Conflict with "Add to any" sharing plugin

Hi,

I can’t recreate this. I’ve installed the Add to Any plugin and got it to show share links above and below posts. I then activated this plugin (version 4.0.1) and the share icons still appeared.

You may need to give me some more configuration details as to how you have it set up.

David.

In this example – I activated version 4.0.1 and now only floating share is available (on the right side). above and below articles nothing.

Whole web site is only youtube videos.

Tried turning off cache and security plugins, no use… Will try remove both, clean and reset and install first share then u2b, and get back to you.

Nope, new install first sharing then youtube – still only floating icons visible. will try shutting down the plugins one by one to see if something else is in the way. Keep you posted.

Found it! I assumed you meant it broke the share links on the site generally but, no, the shares only disappear on posts with the videos in. It’s odd.

Looking at the source, it’s not that the share code is there but not working – the share code is missing. It’s an odd one. I’m going to write in the support forum for the share plugin to see if they’ll help me get to the bottom of this – it’s not obvious as to what the cause is.

David.

Strange. Icons of share appear on second refresh on any page I try. They do not show on first load. After F5/refresh they appear. some caching problem maybe?

Well, well, well. I’ve got to the bottom of it but don’t believe it’s anything to do with my plugin. Anyway, if you head into the YouTube options and turn off the meta data option you’ll find it now works! This is obviously a temporary fix.

Add to Any fails when I call the WordPress function get_the_excerpt(), which I do when building the metadata. It’s a perfectly legitimate function call so I don’t know why it fails elsewhere as a result. Add to Any does force itself into the excerpt, so not sure if its something they’re doing. Anyway, I’ve thrown it back to them for now.

David.

Hm, did this

removed ” from line 333
$result .= $ttab . '<meta itemprop="description" content="' . htmlentities( get_the_excerpt() ). '" />' . $newline;

so that it says:
`$result .= $ttab . ‘<meta itemprop=”description” content=” . htmlentities( get_the_excerpt() ). ” />’ . $newline;

and it works… Ty for all the work! Will decide now what to do – deactivate meta or change code. ??

I wouldn’t leave that change as you need quotes around the output. To be honest using the excerpt as a description was a bit of a kludge. Some search engines insist on having a description but as I don’t use the API I don’t have an official one. I’ve already started on a version 4.0.2 release and for that I’ve switched to using the post name for the description instead.

So, change the same line to…

$result .= $ttab . '<meta itemprop="description" content="' . get_the_title() . '" />' . $newline;

Longer term I want to add in the API and get this information properly.

David.

Applied the new code.

Thank you for your efforts. Keep up the good work!

Harry.