Rips
September 1, 2022, 10:40am
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Hi, the L&L template is stripping out some code from the Whatsapp social share HTML. The issue does not occur when using a standard HTML block.
<a href="whatsapp://send?text={Field url}" data-action="share/whatsapp/share" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-whatsapp"></i></a>
For the code above the first ‘whatsapp ’ text is being removed and is output as below.
<a href="//send?text=https://cutloosecrew.com/return-to-source-mixed-by-ripley/" data-action="share/whatsapp/share" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fab fa-whatsapp"></i></a>
Whatsapp share code seems to be unique as it does not have https:// at the start of the share link.
benjamin
September 1, 2022, 1:46pm
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I don’t think this is an L&L issue, I just tried adding a URL with that structure to an a tag in the regular WordPress custom HTML block and it did the same thing and removed the whatsapp: part. I assume it’s because whatsapp:// isn’t a valid URL protocol but I’m unclear on exactly how that’s supposed to work so I’m not sure. I found this thread and this one that seem to contain other potential syntaxes you might try.
Rips
September 2, 2022, 9:25am
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Thanks, the code below works and will share a post URL and title to Whatsapp:
<a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text={Field title} {Field url}" data-action="share/whatsapp/share" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-whatsapp"></i></a>
I searched around and tested this extensively before posting but the code in my original post may be outdated.
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Sunskie
September 2, 2022, 10:27am
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Awww:) Thanks Mr. Phil for sharing.
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