Title: LinkedIn Sharing Blocked
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# LinkedIn Sharing Blocked

 *  [inntoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inntoon/)
 * (@inntoon)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/)
 * I try to share a blog post on [http://www.theworldsgreatestbook.com](http://www.theworldsgreatestbook.com)
   using Sharexy or the share button from JetPack. I get no link preview image and
   in the description box, it says:
 * Forbidden
 * theworldsgreatestbook.com
 * You don’t have permission to access /pubml-web-based-ebook-format/ on this server.
   Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying 
   to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27…
 * Something appears to be blocking open graph data. I went in to htaccess and even
   tried deleting the entire ban list, but that didn’t help anything. Several sites
   reference bots to delete but some of the recommended ones don’t even appear on
   the list, and some of the instructions refer to old Better WP Security plugin.
   Most of my traffic depends on LinkedIn sharing. If I (or my readers) can’t share
   links, I’m dead in the water. And based on a search, I’m not the only one having
   this problem.
 * Please help. I am launching a new publishing product and my #1 marketing engine
   is crippled.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [DragNfLy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragnfly/)
 * (@dragnfly)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944965)
 * I second this.
 * [iThemes Security](http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) plugin seems
   to block LinkedIn Sharing.
 * Please assist.
 *  [Petra Blankwaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indigow/)
 * (@indigow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944974)
 * Same here.
 *  [Viktor Nagornyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viktorix/)
 * (@viktorix)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944976)
 * This has been reported before.
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-url-preview-problems-in-linkedin-bot-blacklist-is-blocking-them?replies=8](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-url-preview-problems-in-linkedin-bot-blacklist-is-blocking-them?replies=8)
 *  [Petra Blankwaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indigow/)
 * (@indigow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944977)
 * This solution is not enough this time. It worked for a while but no longer.
 *  [Viktor Nagornyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viktorix/)
 * (@viktorix)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944980)
 * We had this issue on our new site, after removing entire list of banned hosts,
   linkedin started working again.

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 * Last reply from: [Viktor Nagornyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viktorix/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-sharing-blocked/#post-4944980)
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