Is it possible (or are there any plans to add this option) to share community threads on LinkedIn?
By pressing the Share button, I can see the options for sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and via email, but nothing for sharing on LinkedIn:
Thank you!
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around adding LinkedIn sharing options for community threads on a Discourse forum. Elena.Kosourova asks if LinkedIn sharing is possible, noting it’s missing from the share options. Moin suggests using the social share feature and provides an example of the correct syntax, emphasizing the use of fab-linkedin as the icon. Elena shares her configuration, which includes a malformed URL, and Moin clarifies the proper format. Fairies-Feast points out a potential missing slash in the URL. Despite adjustments, Elena still encounters an error. dax identifies the root cause: the allowed crawler user agents setting was restricting access, and adding LinkedInBot to the list resolved the issue.
You can add it with Social Share
Thank you for your help, @Moin! For some reason, I don’s see the icon, though. The new button looks empty:
Here is what I put into the social share links field:
LinkedIn, fab-linkedin, Share on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=
It looks like you may have deleted a slash, could you try adding a “/” after the .io?
No, it doesn’t work either.
For future reference, the error in this case was caused by the fact that the site setting allowed crawler user agents was enabled, effectively allowing crawling only to specific user agents, none of which included LinkedIn. Simply adding LinkedInBot to the setting allowed the theme component to work properly.