"Your post was not shared. Please try again."

I've found that there's a problem somewhere in the backend of my blog that prevents blog posts from being shared on Google+. When I try to share to G+ I get the following result:



 

You can see the message: "Your post was not shared. Please try again."

I've been trying for days!!

Today I tried to fix it, but I haven't been successful.

First, I tried to find if it's a known error and what a solution might be. Turns out that it's a common error but no one knows what the problem is. Google Help staff have no idea, and there's a lot of people who are stuck with this problem with no known solution.

So then I spent most of today doing a lot of troubleshooting with my blog and various themes.

I found out that I only had this problem with the theme that I'm currently using (Ghostium), but the theme doesn't have the same problem on the provider's website. I can share there perfectly fine.

I also know that I've been able to share perfectly fine up until recently, so it's likely to be a change I made somewhere that's causing this problem.

In fact, thinking about it now as I'm writing, it probably started happening after I got rid of Facebook and focused on Google+ integration instead.

I'm going to try something... I'll be right back.

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Well, that didn't work. I just spent another hour troubleshooting the Google+ code that shares the posts, but it didn't work. But I think I'm on the right track though. There's a conflict occurring somewhere with Google+ coding.

I'll keep trying tomorrow. It's bedtime now....

By the way. This post is less than my daily 500 word minimum, but I don't care. This problem I'm trying to fix has taken up all my mental processing ability, so I haven't had any available headspace to write about anything else.

We'll see how tomorrow turns out...

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Update: 29 Dec 2013

Part 2 of this issue continues in Problems are opportunities for growth