YOURLS on remote – links are shortened but error in plugin

  • Resolved joshuaiz

    (@joshuaiz)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    I set up YOURLS on a remote server, entered the API key in WP to Twitter. When I log in to my YOURLS admin, the post links *are* shortened by YOURLS using the post ID and my shortened domain but I am still getting an error in the WP to Twitter settings page:

    “The query to the URL shortener API failed, and your URL was not shrunk. The full post URL was attached to your Tweet. Check with your URL shortening provider to see if there are any known issues.”

    Everything seems to be working on my end however WP to Twitter is not grabbing the shortened link, using the full link instead.

    How can I fix this?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/

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  • Plugin Author Joe Dolson

    (@joedolson)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    What that generally means is that what the YOURLS server is returning is somehow not valid. There might be an error code found in WP options as ‘wpt_shortener_status’; but YOURLS errors are (or at least used to be) fairly useless, so it may not even be there. It depends on what was going wrong.

    Thread Starter joshuaiz

    (@joshuaiz)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hey Joe,

    Yeah nothing was in there. Would you mind taking a look at my YOURLS install and my WP to Twitter settings to see if I’m doing anything wrong?

    Where can I send the credentials?

    Thread Starter joshuaiz

    (@joshuaiz)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    All my YOURLS settings are correct and the urls are being shortened and added to the db using the Post ID so this is pointing to something in the plugin not parsing the return from YOURLS correctly.

    I’m using YOURLS 1.7 (latest from GitHub). Server is running PHP 5.4.

    Plugin Author Joe Dolson

    (@joedolson)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Submit a support request via the built-in support form or via my web site support form: https://www.joedolson.com/contact/get-support/

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Joe Dolson

    (@joedolson)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    This was a bug that caused the Yourls response to be returned to Twitter as XML instead of JSON, which wasn’t read correctly. Update will be released shortly.

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