How To Display Topic Title When Sharing Wapka Forum Post To Social Network

It a well known issue experienced by wapka wapmasters in which forum post title normally don’t display when sharing a content to facebook, twitter and other social network.
I have received a lot of mails and messages from wapmasters, asking me for a solution, which is what spur me to write this article.

Display forum post title when sharing to social network

  • I guess you have a social sharing widget install in a strategic location on your forum. If you don’t, Add the below code to your forum Top autocontent page:-
    <a href="http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://ursite.wapka.mobi:getid-url:"> Share to Facebook</a>

    The above code add a facebook sharing widget to your forum

  • Still on wapka Admin panel, click or navigate to Edit site -> wap2 -> Styles for content in forum/chat -> Set global settings of styles for forum/chat -> under set own form for: click Messages in forum, add the below code to the first line inside the textarea under Style of the forum site:**

    <title>::THEME_NAME::</title>

  • With the successful completion of the above steps, next is the technical part of it, follow my instruction carefully as stated below
  • Click on your share widget to share a forum post. You will be taken to the facebook or any other social nework sharing page. Before you submit, Now edit the url in your address bar. If it facebook you sharing to, you will see this https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://ursite.wapka.mobi%2Fforum2_theme_XXXX.xhtml%3Ftema%3D70&hash=879052cac9bb44ed66e09fb95178ff&_rdr. What you need do is remove the &hash=8790…. down to the end leaving behind https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://ursite.wapka.mobi%2Fforum2_theme_XXXX.xhtml%3Ftema%3D70. Then submit the latter Url and you will see your forum post title appear.
    NOTE: XXXX signify your own forum ID.

One more thing to do for this to work effectively is, you should make your forum open to guest not restricted to only registered users.

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