shar.es

This has been asked before, and I get the same issue msyelf. I'm going to try the latest Dev version and I'll let you know if it's fixed in it.

Still getting it in Dev.

Same with Twitter and others

Hello,
Unfortunately, right now we don't have a way to turn of URL shortening for Drupal plug-in.

ShareThis Support

You don't need to turn off the URL shortening, just include the title of the node even if you can't make it a link.

All you have to do is included the title as text so that it as context even if it s not a link. No need to get rid of the URL shorterning.

Have you managed to fix that? I'm also facing this problem. URLs are posted short. I also have problems with thumbnails - sometimes only the Logo of the website accompanies the FB post, sometimes user cannot select which photo to include in FB post - the module chooses for him instead...

I am having the same issue with the shortened URLs and would love it if (as posted above) the node title was used instead of the short URL. Also, there is no image thumbnail included, but that is probably a different issue.

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wow, big downer for me. subscribe

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This issue fixed yet??

The only time it will post the title for me is if I choose the display type: "Multi-Post Widget" ...then if the user clicks the "share" icon and types the message and shares on facebook, for instance, the title of the page that they are sharing shows up on their wall.

Yes same for me. Only Share button showing up the page title, image and description. But not for all pages. I need Facebook n Twitter to show separately with counter..

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I haven't found any way around the shorted URL for facebook share posts... whenever something is shared from site on facebook, the facebook post links back correctly but shows "shar.es" instead of my URL. If anyone figures out a workaround please let me know.

The Metatag module helps out with controlling what is displayed on the post when someone shares something from your site on facebook though. http://drupal.org/project/metatag. Pay special attention to the Open Graph fields for the entity your users can share when you configure this module.

Also check http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to see what types of of metadata facebook wants to see from your site.

may you can try with this change:

in your html.tpl.php before add:

Hello,

Please find below the answers for you concerns-
1. URL shortening - Unfortunately, right now we don't have a way to turn-off URL shortening for Drupal module.
2. Facebook sharing issue - You are expecting that some additional information should be shared alongwith the URL. Actually Facebook crawls the page (shared URL) and takes sharing information from Open Graph fields ("og" tags) implemented in shared page, but in your case "og" tags are not present in shared page. This is the reason why facebook is sharing only given URL and not other information.
Please refer http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/maximizing-distribution-media-content/ for more details about OG tags, and also check http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to see what types of metadata facebook wants to see from your site.
Below are some basic OG tags-
og:title – The title of your article, excluding any branding.
og:url – This URL serves as the unique identifier for your post. It should match your canonical URL used for SEO, and it should not include any session variables, user identifying parameters, or counters. If you use this improperly, likes and shares will not be aggregated for this URL and will be spread across all of the variations of the URL.
og:description – A detailed description of the piece of content, usually between 2 and 4 sentences. This tag is technically optional, but can improve the rate at which links are read and shared.
og:image – This is an image associated with your media. We suggest that you use an image of at least 1200x630 pixels.

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In the sharethis.module around line 468 change

  $stlight = drupal_json_encode(array(
    'publisher' => $data_options['publisherID'],
  ));

to

  $stlight = drupal_json_encode(array(
    'publisher' => $data_options['publisherID'],
	'shorten' => 'false',
  ));

which adds the command to stlightoption that tells the url not to shorten as directed by sharethis. Not sure if it works though.

Hy @browneandrae and thanks for the help,

I've add this code to line 487 for the $paramsStLight array, and indeed now it doesn't show anymore the share.es but the URL.

For sharing teaser information (as title, img, short description), should I use metatag or is better maybe to code my template.php theme?

Thanks a lot for any suggestion you can give me.

The same issue at 8.x versions so I think 'Display short URL' should be disabled by default until fixed it.