Sharing to Facebook; Editing which data is pulled automatically?

  • Good morning. I have a pretty new WP news page, running a custom theme, Jetpack and not much else.

    My problem is simple. When I post the url to a published article into Facebook, it connects and pulls the featured photo, article title and excerpt just fine. The problem, however, is that after the article title I am getting a “|” at the end and then in the excerpt, before the actual excerpt, I am getting the category. I cannot for the life of me find where to edit this stuff. I am no newbie to WordPress nor Facebook by any means, but this one has me stumped.

    Thanks in advance

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  • You can’t control what Facebook grabs from your page unless you insert what Facebook defined for that called Open Graph tags. You need a plugin to put this into your pages.
    There are many available for the different social media platforms.
    This article from one of the most popular describes the details.
    https://yoast.com/advanced-technical-seo-social-image-ogimage-tags/

    Thread Starter roppolo

    (@roppolo)

    Agreed Joy. I can’t ever recall seeing Facebook include the category before the excerpt though. This just started today. I’ve shared a few posts over the past couple of days that did not include it. I’m sure its something on their end though. I’ll check out Yoast. Thanks

    Thread Starter roppolo

    (@roppolo)

    Yoast allowed me to edit specifically what gets pushed to Facebook. Thanks for reminding me about them Joy ??

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