Error message “Caption too long”

  • Resolved oh_franck

    (@oh_franck)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    When I publish a post, each time, I gert an email:

    InstagramAPI\Response\ConfigureResponse: Caption too long.

    I tried reducing the number of characters in the plugin options from 2200 down to 1500 then 1000 but nothing works.

    Anyway what is the “Caption” in this error message? It it about the post content or an image caption?

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  • Plugin Author qsheeraz

    (@qsheeraz)

    Hi,

    Please reduce it near 200
    This is about your post content, URL, tags etc.

    Regards

    Thread Starter oh_franck

    (@oh_franck)

    Hi,
    thank you for your response. Yes, it does work with settings on 200 characters.

    Although I still don’t understand as the Instagram post contains not only the “custom message” set in the WP admin’s post, but also 1200 characters of the post’s content (not 200).

    But it works, so thank a lot for the tip and a great plugin!

    Hi guys,

    I had the same issue, which is resolved by the hints here.
    Thanks a lot!

    But I guess the misunderstanding is that Instagram allows 2200 characters per post but in the settings of the plugin the number of words can only be limited.

    Number of words in Instagram post. Enter 0 for no description.

    Maybe in the plugin it should be changed to characters to avoid confusion!

    Best regards,
    Oliver

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    It worked instantly when set to 200.
    I found the post published with featured image and everything else.
    Here the test (in total, 208 words – 1366 characters):

    BPA FREE
    #BisfenoloA?#BPAFREE?#giocattoli#plastica?#scientifico
    Avrai notato che nella vendita di estrattori di succo è rimarcato il fatto che le plastiche sono BPA FREE, ovvero che non lo contengono. Per coloro che non lo conoscessero, senza scendere nei dettagli, il BPA (Bisfenolo A, abbreviato in BPA) è un componente delle plastiche inserito per dare maggiore durezza e per rallentarne il deterioramento. E quelli che ne contengono lo rilascerebbero nel tempo mentre la frutta e la verdura girano e vengono pressate. Il BPA è tossico, anche se la scienza del mainstream dice “forse”. Ci sono sette classi di plastiche utilizzate per gli imballaggi. La classe 7 è polivalente ed alcune di queste plastiche – come il policarbonato, spesso identificato con la sigla PC e le resine epossidiche – sono prodotte a partire dal monomero bisfenolo A. Questa è la marcatura che indica la destinazione dei contenitori quando vengono riciclati. La classe 3 (PVC) può contenere il bisfenolo A come antiossidante nei plastificanti. Per la classe 1 (PET), 2 (HDPE), 4 (LDPE), 5 (polipropilene), e 6 (polistirene) non viene eseguito il processo di polimerizzazione tramite l’uso di BPA per la produzione di prodotti come imballaggi, bottiglie, ecc. Occhio perciò alle marcature per evitare prodotti con confezionamenti contenenti…
    Link: https://www.lucianogianazza.it/bpa-free

    Actually the article link is in text format, wp made it active when i published this post…

    Maybe this could be out topic, but as I found a bit boring to read my post in the Instagram context, I looked for some point of view about the length of a post, I think this article could be useful:
    https://www.sharethis.com/best-practices/2019/01/what-is-the-instagram-character-limit/

    I would also strongly suggest extending the 200 characters to 2200, 200 is less than Twitter! I think that would benefit all users thus your plugin massively!

    still not working(

    @slavaflorida You should post the kind of error you get, to be useful…

    @radicalfire8 In the plugin setting 200 is referred to words, not characters.

    @lucianogian I want to post below text and I get the error it’s too long, so I don’t believe it’s 200 words.

    ‘When you’re starting to invest, the stock market seems intimidating. Overcome those initial fears and discover it doesn’t have to be complicated at all! #investing #stockmarket #blogger #personalfinance’

    I have followed the advice. Some of my posts publish – others don’t. This seems to be a problem even with short posts. It seems quite arbitrary.

    I thought the plugin took the first 2200 and the ignored the rest?

    A post with 440 words (including image tags, etc) and some hashtags – bringing it to no more than 500 words is not publishing. The can’t be right.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by mike1503.

    I even tried the ‘post to instagram, custom message.’ Makes no difference – these posts are not making it to instagram.

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