Pinterest button not working correctly

[camind]

hi guys,

When pressing the pinterest button invalid image data uri error comes up. Ofcourse this happens when you are logged in and the system looks for images to pick. So this error stops the ability to put images on pinterest. See attachment

Thanks

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[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

This relies on the posts featured image being set, have you done this for your post? Without a featured image, no image URL is passed to Pinterest.

Thanks,
David.

[camind]

Hi,

Can this somehow be changed to use all images on page? my old site was able to give the user the option on which picture they wanted to use and showed all pictures on that page. This makes sense because the user might want to pin an image that is not the featured image. Also on top of that I don’t use the feature image for anything at all right now so having to add featured images to all my posts would be a lot of work just to have pinterest to work.

Thanks

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

If you are looking to add a pinterest link to all image within a post, this plugin would be for you: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images/.

The default pinterest link can only send one image to Pinterest, hence the featured image. We could look into making it default to the first image uploaded to the post, but that would give you less control. So the above plugin would sounds better for your case.

Thanks,
David.

[camind]

David,

Can we make the existing link use the first image of the post? That way I can avoid uploading all featured images and will save me hrs of time. and also avoid using the extra plugin.

thanks

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

1) Please activate your child theme.

2) Copy and paste this into your child theme functions.php file

if (!function_exists('swift_pinterest_get_first_image_in_post')) {
	function swift_pinterest_get_first_image_in_post() {
	global $post, $posts;
	  $first_img = '';
	  ob_start();
	  ob_end_clean();
	  $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
	  $first_img = $matches[1][0];

	  if(empty($first_img)) {
	    $first_img = ""; // You can also set a default image path
	  }
	  return $first_img;
	}
}

3) Within you child theme create a new file, called single.php.

4) Copy and paste the code into single.php. Full code here, please copy this exactly. http://pastie.org/private/karqmo0rttxh6zrfd3f8jg#233.

That will do it.

Thanks,
David.

[camind]

Thanks David, You’re the man 🙂

[David Martin – Support]

No problem, happy to help!

-David.