Facebook posts are done with ?p=1234 and not with permalinks

Hi Panos,

TinyURL use to fail in Facebook. So I have some code in the plugin to use the WordPress Post ID link if TinyURL is selected. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at that though, Facebook may have fixed their issue with TinyURL. But there are a couple things to consider.

1) Using TinyURL would probably affect your post count in the same way
2) Facebook should (use to) auto-translate the URL to the permalink URL when it verifies the URL.
3) There is probably no real sense in using a URL shortener at all anymore. The main reason was that Twitter didn’t use to auto-shorten URLs so a long URL would negatively affect your character count. But now they do. The only other reason would be if you were using a service like bit.ly to track URL usage.

I’ve actually been thinking of removing the URL shortener functionality of the plugin, since it not really needed anymore. I think I’ll push out an update today to do this, which should solve the problem for you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

That would be awesome!
Thanks

Hey Panos,

Sorry for the delay, I’ve had a bunch of other unrelated projects come up that had to take priority. But I just pushed out version 2.8.0 which should fix this for you. I’ve completely stripped out the URL shortener functionality, because it’s no longer needed anymore (Twitter automatically does it) and it’s not needed for Facebook or LinkedIn at all.

Let me know if you run into any trouble!

Thanks for your patience!