Steve Dowe

Hi Jon,

I’m trying to get to the bottom of this issue myself. I’ve seen it occur quite frequently over the past couple of weeks – but only in Firefox, not Chrome.

Do you have any add-ons installed which affect cookies, javascript or otherwise make any other performance tweaks?

Steve

Hey there,

Ok, so I had this problem too and figured I may as well try to fix it.

I made the following changes in g-crossposting/g-crossposting.php:

First, change this:

// create content
		$post_content = $activity->object->content;

to this:

// create content
		$post_content = $activity->object->content;

		// Modify content to remove title
		if(($pos = strpos($post_content, '</b>')) !== false)
		{
			$content_pos = $pos +4;
			$stripped_title = strip_tags(substr($post_content, 0, $content_pos-1));
			$post_content = substr($post_content, $content_pos);
		}

Then change this:

// set title for post
		if ($activity->title) {
			$post_title = $activity->title;
		}

To this:

// set title for post
		if(isset($stripped_title) && strlen($stripped_title)>0) {
			$post_title = $stripped_title;
		}
		elseif ($activity->title) {
			$post_title = $activity->title;
		}

Optionally, nearer the bottom, change this:

$post_content .= '<div class="g-crossposting-backlink" ><a href="'.$activity->url.'" target="_blank">'.__('This was first posted on Google+', 'g-crossposting').'</a></div>';

To this:

$post_content .= '<div class="g-crossposting-backlink" style="width: 100%; clear: both;"><a href="'.$activity->url.'" target="_blank">'.__('This was first posted on Google+', 'g-crossposting').'</a></div>';

.. which creates a clean break for social media icons appearing after my post’s images. You could make it cleaner by editing the CSS file, but I didn’t bother.

If you want an example of this in action, here’s my G+ post:
https://plus.google.com/108862967958261109459/posts/RemQ2n4q4P6

And my auto cross-posted blog post:
http://stevedowe.me/2014/05/bad-boy-bakewell.html

Hope that helps someone!

Cheers,
Steve