Problems with social api

Hi, I've many problems with social api integrated function in technews template.

First:
When I share an article in Facebook it doesn't share the specific page address but only mysitename.com and then reminds back (if I click the link on facebook) to a generic "mysitename.com/index.php?option=com_content" ....so people go back to a page that is not home, neither the article I wanted to share.

Second:
If I insert specific article IDs in the field "excluded articles", or category name in the next field (excluded categories) nothing happens. The share buttons remain inside the article. This is a problem if I want to exclude, for example, privacy and terms articles and so on...

Any suggestions?

First problem solved: it was because of the sef urls. But when I share an articles it displays article author, also if I hide it from global configuration>articles

Anyway, second problem remains.

Hi

Can I please see an example of such article ? I do not think I understand. Which social option You have in mind ? The one which came with template, the build one in K2 or a custom one provided by K2 as well.

It's the built-in.
In the tab "social api" under template features, fields "excluded articles", "excluded categories"...
...it doesn't work...

And the other problem is about post author (see attached)

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Hi

I honestly cannot tell what could it be from this screenshot, because it's a result of this function already. I think best would be to use some 3rd party plugin instead and remove this template provided code from /layout/blocks/social.php file.

Yes I can do it, but I really like the opportunity to have a share tool in my articles, so if I can find a solution I'll post it. Anyway in your template functions the problem still remains: I cannot exclude articles or categories. It doesn't work.
So I suggest to fix this bug in your next template updates....

Hi

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Hi

Programmers has checked the exclusion and it works. Code for exclusion is in gk_technews/lib/framework/helper.social.php

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       // check the excluded article IDs and category IDs
       if(($option == 'com_content' && $view == 'article' && in_array($id, $excluded_articles, false)) ||
          ($catid != '' && $option == 'com_content' && $view == 'article' && in_array($catid, $excluded_categories, false)) || $embed_mode) {
          $is_excluded = true;
            // clear SocialAPI div
          GKParser::$customRules['/<gavern:social(.*?)gavern:social>/mis'] = '';
          GKParser::$customRules['/<gavern:socialAPI(.*?)gavern:socialAPI>/mis'] = '';
       } else {
            GKParser::$customRules['/<gavern:social>/mi'] = '';
            GKParser::$customRules['/<\/gavern:social>/mi'] = '';
            GKParser::$customRules['/<gavern:socialAPI>/mi'] = '';
            GKParser::$customRules['/<\/gavern:socialAPI>/mi'] = '';
        }


So problem may be that You are not using template's buttons in fact, but article buttons. If those are article buttons than You can simply disable them in category/item configuration.

I'm using social icons.
If I use widgets in articles = excluded categories function works.
If I use social icons = excluded categories function doesn't work....
So is there any way to exclude articles or categories using social icons?

Hi

Ok. I do not think if we understand each other. Is the social icons problem on the same website as the 404 error page issue You've send me an access to before?

If yes than I can see You are using component feature (as on screen), so exclusion has to be done in category or item settings.

Now I understand why I didn't find the option... I'm not using K2 articles or categories. So I can exclude them only if they are build in K2.
Thanks.

Hi

I'm not sure that You can't. There needs to be such option in category, but You can always hide it with css. Just add this to override.css file:

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.item-social-icons { display: none; }


If You want to hide it only in some places use page class suffix as described here: https://www.gavick.com/documentation/jo ... omla-pages