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Social sharing should not share product page but page where FV player is embed

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Foliovision › Forums › FV Player Pay Per View › Requests and Feedback › Social sharing should not share product page but page where FV player is embed

  • Ulf M. 1 year, 1 month ago

    Dear Martin,
    the social share options in FV Player seam to share product page link by default. As we are not using product pages and only embedded player in existing film pages how can we change links used in sharing options?

    Would that be a custom code change?
    We would like always on all videos to share only one link to our Video on Dem,and page where all films are listet. Can that be accomplished and can you advise how?
    Best
    Ulf

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  • Martin 1 year ago

    Hello Ulf,

    You can use the share argument of the shortcode like this:

    share="Custom text;https://custom-link.com/here"

    Full list of these arguments and how to use then with [fvplayer id="..."] shortcodes can be found here: https://foliovision.com/player/developers/shortcode-parameters

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Great thanks. We will check this out and let you know if we facing any problems.

    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Dear Martin,
    unforthunatly still only product page or main domain is shared.
    We tried two ways to define custom social sharing:

    1. Via Sharing Properties in FV Player settings
    2. via shortcode you provided

    Both ways still show wrong results when sharing:

    a. Twitter = sharing titel and link of product page
    b. facebook = sharing main domain
    c. email = sharing deafault Text from FV setting + sproduct page link

    Also in some cases the social share icons disappear and when I click in social share area with mouse I am redicreted to home page / main domain. See in my video: https://www.loom.com/share/904859228ec54c359956e5ec556d4dc8

    Any idear why this is all happening. Do we miss something in seetings, shport code or anything else you can think of?
    Best Ulf

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    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Dear Martin,
    I deleted deafult sharing text in settings and configurated another video FV Player with ciustom sharing Properties.
    This time the result even looks different and wired. See screenshots attached.

    In Email sharing now appears a link I added in former settings to vod page and default text or something totally messed up…
    Ulf

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    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Okay last Update:
    Link from short code only working on emails but does not take custom text and adds default text from settings.

    [fvplayer_1 id=”5″ splash_text=”This is my video.” share=”Custom text;https://shop.marcus-vetter.com/vod2/”%5D

    But not working for facebook or twitter ;(
    Best
    Ulf

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    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Dear Martin,
    my developer managed to make the shortcode work. The link in shortcode is shared now properly on facebook.

    On twitter the text show from widget but link somehow slash as percent sign see screenshot attached. That means only main domains will work. Any idea?

    In email also only link with default text from setting shared.

    Any advise hoe we can make it wqork for all sharing options to show with the individual text from shortcode? And how can we share link like http://www.marcus-vetter.com/vod or similar without converting on twitter into %?
    Best
    Ulf

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    [fvplayer_1 id=”4″ splash_text=”REGISTER NOW AND GET 24H FREE ACCESS.” share=”This is for preview test;https://www.marcus-vetter.com/war-and-justice/”%5D

    But without any additional text “This is for preview test” – do we have the shortcode right and is the text supposed to be shared as well?

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    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    The redicrect to hiome page issue is solved by increasing sharing icon size. Looking forward to your answer to still open issues.
    Best
    Ulf

    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Dear Martin,
    any update on this request?
    Best
    Ulf

    Martin 1 year ago

    Hello Ulf,

    Sorry about not coming back to your issues earlier.

    I see that your issues was partly caused by using quotes in your share="..." argument value.

    I looked into the Twitter sharing issues and found that we were double-escaping the custom URL. Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

    Then the issue will be fixed.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Ulf M. 1 year ago

    Dear Martin,
    unforthunatly even after reinstalling the plugin still we have same social sharing issues as reported. Anby other further ideas how to solve this issue? On Friday after go libe we will install an additional seo plugin but for the direct sharing options from the player it would be great to solve this issue as well.
    Best
    Ulf

    Martin 12 months ago

    Hello Ulf,

    There were no further changes and if you use the version from https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip it should work. The fix which we put in was done on April 9th while the latest release on WordPress.org is from March 2024.

    Please double check your shortcode to see if does not use bad symbols instead of ", like ” or ″.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Ulf M. 12 months ago

    Unforthunatly for us the social sharing issues remain as descripted even we followed you instructions twice now ;(

    Ulf M. 12 months ago

    her our short code example:

    [fvplayer_1 id=”8″ splash_text=”(CC) SUBTITLES AVAILABLE IN 31 LANGUAGES” share=”WATCH ON VOD NOW;www.marcus-vetter.com/heart-of-jenin/”]

    Email: default text of settings
    Facebook: No text or link’

    ;(

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    Martin 12 months ago

    Hello Ulf,

    I see the email text would not use that “WATCH ON VOD NOW” phrase which you provided. That’s fixed now.

    Please reinstall FV Player from this link: https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

    The situation is more difficult with Facebook sharing as they do not let us modify the message for the share dialog for at least a couple of years.

    It’s not part even if using a Facebook App ID:

    • https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog
    • https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog

    We could only customize what shows in the link preview (show the exact video splash screen and its title) but then the shared link would have to include some argument to target that video as the page would have to be presented with that information in the Open Graph tags.

    Thanks,
    Martin

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