Stop Publicize from adding an excerpt

  • Resolved jhodgson

    (@jhodgson)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    First let me say that you guys are doing great work, which I very much appreciate. I love the Publicize functionality.

    I just wonder if there’s a way to get Publicize to stop adding a huge excerpt to Facebook updates. I’d rather it just posted the post title and the link, as it does with Twitter and LinkedIn.

    I know I can edit the title it posts, and I bet if I put in a custom excerpt it would use that instead, but neither of those is what I want. I want FB to be just like LinkedIn.

    How can I get there?

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    Howdy,

    At this time, there isn’t a way to do exactly like that. The closest would be a really short custom message (near the Publish button). Even simply a period would work, but that would be used on the other social networks as well.

    Cheers,

    Thread Starter jhodgson

    (@jhodgson)

    Shame. Not even some sort of functions.php tomfoolery?

    Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    Nope. The process of packaging up the data for Facebook happens on WordPress.com’s servers. There’s not a toggle for disabling the excerpt—the closest is, if there is a custom message set, to use that instead, but if the custom message is blank, it’ll still use the default option.

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