Hi there,
I’ve really never had a problem with this before, but suddenly this past week or so across 2 xtheme sites my posts no longer load previews on facebook.
The heading just lists the site url, there is no images or text preview either even though the posts contain both.
Can anyone help with this? Its a resource I use a lot for social media and without proper post previews there’s really no point.
Thanks!
Just to update, I ran my links through the facebook debugger and got the following notes. This is after scraping again.
For this link: http://bar43.com/2017/06/bbq-beer-pong-soccer-sunday-at-bar-43/
Could Not Connect To Server
Check that the webserver is running, and that there are no firewalls blocking Facebook’s crawlers.
Missing Required Property
The ‘og:type’ property is required, but not present.
Inferred Property
The ‘og:url’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Share App ID Missing
The ‘fb:app_id’ property should be explicitly provided, Specify the app ID so that stories shared to Facebook will be properly attributed to the app. Alternatively, app_id can be set in url when open the share dialog.
Inferred Property
The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
For this link: http://mchalespub.com/2017/06/30/first-ever-wwe-great-balls-of-fire-viewing-party-to-be-held-at-mchales-nyc-details/
Missing Required Property
The ‘og:type’ property is required, but not present.
Inferred Property
The ‘og:url’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Share App ID Missing
The ‘fb:app_id’ property should be explicitly provided, Specify the app ID so that stories shared to Facebook will be properly attributed to the app. Alternatively, app_id can be set in url when open the share dialog.
Inferred Property
The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Are you using Yoast?
No, wordpress x theme. This has only become an issue in the last 2 weeks too.
I’d suggest you use Yoast SEO plugin anyhow, and set the share image there.
Also make sure that the images is not too big.
Hello There,
Thanks for writing in! I have checked both of your sites and it seems that it has been crawled by facebook several days ago. You will have to click the scrape again to update the facebook cache of your link.
I would highly recommend that you use Yoast SEO plugin to manage the image, keyword, description and more. And make sure that the default X Open Graph option is disabled to avoid any conflict with Yoast.
@beornbjorn:
Thanks for chiming in!
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