FrankB80

Hi Nick,

I was afraid that would be the answer.

So the same is true for using a custom field for the text, I guess, right?

Anyways, thanks a lot for your feedback!

Best, Frank

I found this code to make bitly URLs: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-automatically-shorten-your-wordpress-urls-with-bit-ly/

Now I’ve seen this in front-end.php:

$buttons[] = sprintf( '<div class="%s" id="%s" data-url="%s" data-urlalt="%s" data-text="%s" data-title="%s"></div>',
				$icon,
				$div_id,
				get_permalink( $id ),
				wp_get_shortlink( $id ),
				$description,
				$data_title
			);

But still don’t really know how to replace the link and title if not editing this directly in the plugin file which I know I should avoid…

Will take a look at it, thanks a lot!

Oh, I see… that might be a showstopper then.

Yes, after your description I found it right away, thanks!

Hi Nick, how was I not able to see this? ??

Sorry…

Shouldn’t this actually work out of the box using author profile’s Twitter username?

Thanks, got this to work.

Now appending UTM parameters, then creating a bit.ly shortlink. Example:

var a2a_config = a2a_config || {};
a2a_config.callbacks.push({
    share: function(share_data) {
        // Parameters
        var params = '?utm_source=source&utm_medium=medium';
        // The shared URL
        var old_url = share_data.url;
        // Initialize new shared URL
        var new_url = old_url;
        // Add parameters if not already added to the shared URL
        if ( old_url.indexOf(params, old_url.length - params.length) === -1 ) {
            new_url = old_url + params;
        }
        // Modify the share by returning an object
        // with a "url" property containing the new URL
        if (new_url != old_url) {
            return {
                url: new_url
            };
        }
    }
});
a2a_config.track_links = 'bitly';
a2a_config.track_links_key = 'addtoany|R_cc6a4017b0274d1d86f2397771b70136';
a2a_config.templates = {
    twitter: "${title} ${link} via @twitter-username"
};

But this means my bit.ly credentials are now accessible (in the example it’s from addtoany)…

Any chance you could show how to do this via functions.php instead? Or should I open a new question/thread for this?

Thanks a lot for your support!

Same question here.

And beyond… as I would like to attach custom UTM parameters to the link and then make a shortlink out of it, but that might be a second step (if possible).

Is it possible to do this via functions.php as well?