Sharing private content as teasers to other networks (re: Facebook, Instagram ...)
By Danny Malouin on Sunday, 24 June 2018
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Hi,
We use EasySocial to run a private Soccer club community. We've got it setup to be private which requires the users to log in and like their respective pages in order to view and comment on the content. So far, that's what we need/want in terms of security. However, it would be great to offer some sort of teaser content to share to other social plateforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc... When we share content from a private Page's Photo album for example, the Facebook share API claims a "404 you don't have permission".
Is there a setting to allow user to share content but still require the visitors to login/create an account to view all of it ?
Thanks
Danny
Hi Danny,

You have to treat other social sites like Facebook/Twitter as a non-logged in user because when they crawl your content, they are not doing it as a registered user.

Unfortunately this is how social sharing works and there is nothing that we can do about this.
Raymond
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Monday, 25 June 2018 10:41
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Ok thanks
Can we have a replacement page for the 404 page it generates ? I would prefer any non-logged users get routed to our Sign up page then ?
Danny Malouin
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 06:40
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Hi Danny,

We use this Tassos Marinos extensions;
https://www.tassos.gr/joomla-extensions/engagebox

Hope it'll help
Syabab
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 06:46
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Thanks for your suggestion Syabab.

Hey Danny,

Currently EasySocial does not replace or redirect to login page for 404 pages because not all 404 errors requires signing in.

As for replacement layout, you would have to look at how your template can do this as they normally have their own error page layout.
Raymond
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 17:51
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Is the 404 page the same for a non-user (un registered user) page ?
Can we customize the Joomla non-user page and versus a standard not found page ?
Thanks
Danny
Danny Malouin
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 18:59
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Hey Danny,

Joomla does not have a "404" page per-se. Instead, it has an error template file which is located in /templates/YOUR_JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/error.php . This is responsible to generate any error page on the site.
Mark
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 20:59
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