Is there a way to force a social sharing plugin to use the shortlink each of my WP posts automatically gets (YOURLS service in my case) to pass to the social service the visitor clicked, instead of permalink?
If not, it has to be built with that functionality? (not that I have found any that does that)
I very much doubt you can universally “trick” all plugins without touching at least some of some plugin code, but I think your best bet would be filters on
the_permalinkandpost_link, and maybepre_post_link. Even if you got that working it would be pretty “heavy”. That is, a lot of processing happens before you get to interrupt things.I’ve found a working solution around JetPack, that I can be inspired from it, for future reference.
inconsistent
sharing buttons
Seems that this plugin does exactly what I want:
Intercepts sharing buttons to use post’s shortlink by adding a filter for (JetPack’s in this case) sharing_permalink
Permalink should not bypassed completely, as it’s used for “likes” counters, matter is more complicated than I thought, but it’s a start and so far is working. I was trying to avoid JetPack, but it will do for now.