[Theme: AutoFocus] Viewrs cannot share title, excerpt and postthumb on facebook

Something weird is wrong with your site. The Facebook Debugger can’t see the OpenGraph meta tags in your code.

Here’s what FB sees:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fphoto.simonartemis.de%2Fnick-the-chick%2F

But if you view source on that page (https://photo.simonartemis.de/nick-the-chick/) then you can clearly see that it does have the og:url and og:title properly.

Dunno. Maybe you have something blocking Facebook’s crawler from reading your site’s HTML? Hard to say.

Thanks a lot for your trials…I recognized that the fb-posts coming out of the admin area got the normal link structure like “https://mysite.com/?p=XXX” but the like button in the frontend takes the edited permalink like “https://mysite.com/postname”…so I immediatley tried to change temporarily the permalinks to figure out what the like button does with standard permalinks…but nothing ??

I am wondering why the backend publishing works fine but the frontend sharing does not? Where are the differences between?

It does use the shortlinks for a reason, but that doesn’t affect the actual problem you’re experiencing.

The problem you’re having has nothing to do with the link being used. FB crawls your site and gets the HTML from it for the Like button. That link I gave above shows the results FB’s crawler is seeing.

For some reason, Facebook cannot see your site’s content. This means that the Like button won’t put that info into the shared post properly.

I have no idea why FB can’t pull the content of your site up, but that’s the problem you need to solve. Try switching to the default theme temporarily, or disabling other plugins. Then use that facebook debug link above to see if it can see your content properly.

The reason the backend link works is that that is a Published “push” to Facebook. That code sends FB exactly what you want on the resulting post. The Like button is a “pull” by Facebook, and they’re looking for metadata in your HTML source. The metadata is there, but FB can’t see it for some reason.

I′ve tried everything. Changed the theme twice…stopped all plugins except SFC…nothing. The fb debugger shows the same warnings in any way. I figured out that other wp sites I am using SFC shows the fb id in the debugger…in this case nothing.

The <meta property=”og:title”…> on other SFC-plugged wp-sites works fine…in my case the plugin generates <meta property=’og:title’…>

No quotation marks…just semi-colons…hope my english is ok?

Maybe this is the problem?

I would try to change the plugin code in the sfc-base.php but my php is bad and so this will get a try & error story ??

No, those aren’t semi-colons, they’re single quotes, and they work fine, the same as double quotes. That is not the issue.

The issue is deeper than that. Your site is blocking Facebook at some fundamental level. Perhaps your host, or another plugin you have (maybe Bad Behavior or some other anti-spam plugin), or you have weird .htaccess.

I don’t know what is causing the problem, but I can see the effects, and it’s not SFC that is creating this kind of issue. Editing SFC will not fix the problem, because SFC is working properly.

ok, thanks a lot for your help…I′ll keep on searching to find the problem.

It works. The issue was a Plugin named UAM (User Access Manager)…I deactivated it for testing and the like button doesn′t worked but I gotta refresh the permalinks after deactivating the UAM Plugin…

Now, without UAM..the debugger requests normal results ??

Thanks again for your help!

I found out that I can use both plugins (SFC & UAM) in common when I leave the settings blank at “Other settings > User redirect (If no access allowed)” in the UAM Settings. The moment I chosse another User redirection the fb-debugger immediately reguests no correct object properties.

Maybe this helps someone else tomorrow…

Greetz
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