Updating Open Graph metadata

  • Resolved klishb

    (@klishb)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    I shared a link to my shop page via text message and saw a strange description in the preview. I’ve been tracking it down and it seems to come from the Open Graph metadata created by JetPack. It’s producing this on the page source:

    <meta property=”og:description” content=”This is where you can add new products to your store.” />

    That content is displayed in the preview I shared via text message. I don’t see anywhere to change that in the JetPack settings. I’ve also looked all over my SEO settings, sharing settings, and I’ve searched the database for that string. It shows up in wp_options, but I don’t see an option anywhere to change it. I also tried to define a meta description on the WooCommerce shop page to see if it would use that value instead. Didn’t help.

    Any thoughts on how I could update that?

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  • Plugin Support supernovia

    (@supernovia)

    Hmm, I haven’t seen that, but can you check the excerpt for the page, as well as the social media sharing message if there is one?

    Thread Starter klishb

    (@klishb)

    Excerpts are only an option on posts. I don’t have that option on pages. Also not sure about the social media sharing message.

    Plugin Support fresatomica

    (@fresatomica)

    It seems that this message comes from WooComemrce, have a look at this page to learn how you can disable it. I hope that helps ??

    Thread Starter klishb

    (@klishb)

    Thank you @fresatomica. Unfortunately I don’t have that as an option in my theme. Ideally I’d like to update the message rather than remove it though. Not sure if you have any thoughts on how to do that. Seems like it would be within WooCommerce so maybe I need to make a post in their forum.

    The only reason I posted this here is because it’s wrapped in this (with some other lines)

    <!– Jetpack Open Graph Tags –>
    <meta property=”og:description” content=”This is where you can add new products to your store.” />
    <!– End Jetpack Open Graph Tags –>

    Plugin Support fresatomica

    (@fresatomica)

    I’d suggest temporarily deactivating all of your plugins and changing the theme, just to be sure where does this comes from. If the issue disappears then reactivate one plugin at a time. Refresh your page each time you reactivate a plugin to see what causes the issue to return.

    You can install Health Check to help you with that. On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to disable all plugins and change the theme for you, while you’re still logged in, without affecting normal visitors to your site.

    Thread Starter klishb

    (@klishb)

    Since I’m pretty sure it was coming from JetPack I just disabled that plugin and confirmed it goes away. That being said, I’m pretty sure JetPack is only outputting those lines because I have WooCommerce installed.

    Plugin Support fresatomica

    (@fresatomica)

    Well, the Open Graph Tags are coming from Jetpack so it is expected you won’t see them by disabling the plugin. The description however gets pulled by Jetpack from another plugin or theme and so by disabling the other plugins/theme you can learn where to find that description, change it or prevent it from getting pulled into the OG tags.

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