Whatsapp image preview not showing or sending

garethbowden
(@garethbowden)

1 year, 8 months ago

Hi,

I see a number of people cannot share image on Whatsapp – I have the latest plugin version and only the URL shows up not the image. This is both on mobile and Whatsapp desktop app.

If I paste the same image link into Whatsapp, the preview works fine. I tried the suggested code snippet below, but this hasn’t worked.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-image-not-url-3/

Is this possible to fix where the image preview shows when sharing?

Thanks,

Gareth

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Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

1 year, 8 months ago

Hi,

So do you see this image when you send a message to WhatsApp? I mean inside the feed or it still looks like just plain text with URL? If the second one – please show me an example of how it looks.

Regards

Thread Starter garethbowden
(@garethbowden)

1 year, 8 months ago

Yes it looks like plain text with URL, with file name showing at the bottom with a box where image should be as just a grey box as below screenshot:

https://postimg.cc/4KYmnT1T

Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

1 year, 8 months ago

So when you press Send – inside the feed do you see the same plain text or image attached to the message after sending?

Thread Starter garethbowden
(@garethbowden)

1 year, 8 months ago

Yes, after sending I see a link and image name but no image / preview like below:

https://postimg.cc/YhbDmGcF
Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

1 year, 8 months ago
Please try to use this code snippet:
```
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sti_wp_enqueue_scripts', 9999999 );
function sti_wp_enqueue_scripts() {

    $script = "
        function sti_url( url, options ) {
            if ( options.data.network === 'whatsapp' ) {
                url = 'https://api.whatsapp.com/send?';
                url += 'text=' + encodeURIComponent(  options.data.title + ' | ' +  options.data.summary + ' ' +  options.data.media );
            }
            return url;
        }
        StiHooks.add_filter( 'sti_sharing_url', sti_url );
    ";

    wp_add_inline_script( 'sti-script', $script);

}
```
Thread Starter garethbowden
(@garethbowden)

1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks, I am getting the following error message:

(I am installing via Code Snippets plugin)

Cannot redeclare sti_wp_enqueue_scripts() (previously declared in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/includes/class-wpcode-snippet-execute.php(292) : eval()'d code:3)

Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

1 year, 8 months ago

Looks like you didn’t remove a previous code snippet. Please disable/remove it and try one more time.

Thread Starter garethbowden
(@garethbowden)

1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks this snippet is now active, however the preview still isn’t showing?

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