Pinterest URL incorrect - Cannot Pin
By Dave Parker on Wednesday, 08 July 2015
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Hi guys...
When displaying the built-in EB5 social buttons, there seems to be a problem with the way the URL of the page is being passed to Pinterest. For example:

https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=%2Fhow-to%2Fblogs%2Fit-advice-guru-blogs%2Fwill-windows-10-cause-support-issues&media=%2F%2Fit-advice.guru%2Fimages%2Feasyblog_articles%2F4%2Fb2ap3_thumbnail_W10-large.png&description=Will%20Windows%2010%20Cause%20Support%20Issues


Pinterest says that the URL is invalid because it's not prefixed with http or https, so I guess this needs to be placed in the "?url=" part of the query string.

Dave
Hey Dave,

Can you download the attached file and upload it into /administrator/components/com_easyblog/includes/post/
Mark
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 02:12
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Hi Mark.
Uploaded it to the site, and no change to the Pinterest URL...
Dave
Dave Parker
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 02:43
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Hey Dave,

Is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue?
Mark
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 09:53
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Sure, no problem... It's in my global profile settings on here, but just in case you can't access it I've put it into site details below.
Dave
Dave Parker
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:45
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Fixed, can you give this a try again? This fix will be included in the next release
Mark
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Friday, 10 July 2015 00:44
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Same issue here.
John van Niekerk
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Friday, 10 July 2015 07:36
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Hi John,

Sorry for late reply to this,

Perhaps you can try download my attachment file and replace in -> JoomlaFolder\administrator\components\com_easyblog\includes\socialbuttons\adapters\pinterest.php and see how it goes?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 10 July 2015 10:43
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Morning guys...

The PinInterest button still not adding the http/https prefix... It's adding it for "media=" but not for "url="

https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=%2Flatest-featured-posts%2Fgeneral-it-tech%2Fmanaging-passwords&media=https%3A%2F%2Fit-advice.guru%2Fimages%2Feasyblog_articles%2F66%2Fb2ap3_thumbnail_password-heade_20150707-123524_1.jpg&description=Managing%20Passwords


Dave
Dave Parker
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Friday, 10 July 2015 16:42
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Please download the attached file and upload it into /administrator/components/com_easyblog/includes/socialbuttons/adapters/
Mark
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Friday, 10 July 2015 16:57
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Hey Mark...
Yup, that's fixed it... can now successfully post to Pinterest.
Just a heads up though, and don't know if this can be fixed. I've noticed for both Pinterest and Reddit, when trying to share, it navigates away from the website, unlike with the other buttons which pop-up in a new window. Is it possible to follow the same behaviour for Pinterest and Reddit, that is, they open up in either a pop-up window or a new browser tab?
Cheers
Dave
Dave Parker
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Friday, 10 July 2015 18:07
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Hey Dave,

Thanks for writing back to us on this. I don't think there's a work around for this because these "buttons" are actually being generated by Pinterest but I will see if it's possible to alter this behavior
Mark
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Saturday, 11 July 2015 17:46
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Hey Dave,

Try this, download the attached file and upload it into /components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/socialbuttons/ and see if that helps?
Mark
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Saturday, 11 July 2015 17:47
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