LinkedIn WordPress Application

  • So there was a topic regarding this in the past year that never appeared to be solved and the thread closed.

    Just for the sake of completeness and to show LinkedIn’s reply, here is the result of my trouble ticket submission to LinkedIn:

    My ticket:
    A client of my employer has requested that his WordPress blog be attached to LinkedIn, however, when entering the URL of his website the following error is consistently generated:
    “Sorry, we can’t find a WordPress blog at this address.”

    The entire website is built using WordPress. I have tried the following URLs with no luck:
    boothsweet.com
    https://www.boothsweet.com
    https://boothsweet.com
    https://www.boothsweet.com

    As well as the following feed URLs:
    boothsweet.com/feed
    https://www.boothsweet.com/feed
    https://boothsweet.com/feed
    https://www.boothsweet.com/feed
    boothsweet.com/?feed=rss2
    https://www.boothsweet.com/?feed=rss2
    https://boothsweet.com/?feed=rss2
    https://www.boothsweet.com/?feed=rss2

    All of these URLs are valid, if I try marking off “Show only recent posts tagged LinkedIn” I receive the following error:
    “The feed URL https://boothsweet.com/?feed=rss2&tag=linkedin is inaccessible”
    Which makes more sense, as it seems that the application is trying to pull the information from the right place (although the tag LinkedIn does not exist and this error is understandable).

    The error message is less than helpful – there is no indication as to what the problem is, and the message is, frankly, incorrect – the entire website is a WordPress system.

    LinkedIn’s response:
    While the application you have inquired about is hosted on LinkedIn’s platform, the details you have inquired about were designed by our partner, WordPress. Based on our review of your inquiry, we expect you will receive the most accurate and up-to-date assistance from our partner. Please contact them directly using the contact details below:

    https://wordpress.com/contact-support/

    Should they determine the issue needs further attention by LinkedIn, they will be able to escalate it to us with appropriate technical details on your behalf.

    Have a great day and thank you for being a valued member of our LinkedIn community!

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    The question had been raised, and I believe unanswered, “Is this application only for wordpress.com blogs?” – I have found that I can indeed attach other self hosted installations, so I don’t believe that to be the case.

    The installation in question does have the feed links in the <head> as well. I’d like to think I’m not completely stupid, however, this just has me stumped

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

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