Facebook Changing Page Title When Shared (?)

  • i’m stumped. no matter where in wp-admin i change anything labeled “title”, whenever shared to Facebook, the title is changed back to the original sitename.

    i’ve tried a couple different plugins to help provide the Open Graph meta data and landed on this one due to its flexibility.

    i painstakingly sifted thru the WordPress mysql database via phpMyAdmin and found any/all reference to “title” and leftovers from the other plugins. deleted everything that was relevant.

    i removed the “Site Title” from wp-admin > Settings > General.

    i added all the OG meta tags in wp-admin > Settings > Meta Tag Manager EXCEPT the title (also no sitetitle).

    i edited this “Media” page (as an example. this issue is with every page) and added…
    <meta property="og:title" content="Anything here, doesn't matter" />
    …via the per-page Meta Tag Manager element.

    i went into my host (SiteGround) and flushed both the Dynamic Cache & the Memcache.
    i went into their WP Plugin & purged the cache there too.

    i went back into phpMyAdmin & verified that the ONLY “og:title” is what i just entered above.

    i emptied my browser cache.

    i reloaded the page and checked the source code. it shows ONLY the “og:title” i made above.

    then i go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug,
    enter https://roxologymusic.com/media & clicked the Debug button.
    i’ve repeatedly clicked the “Scrape Again” button.

    every time, Facebook reads the “og:title” as “Roxology”! (Roxology is the name of the website, and i did have it in the wp general settings, and the previous plugin had it set as its title. but i’ve eradicated all of that, haven’t i?

    further down that page click the “Show All Raw Tags” and it shows…
    <meta property="og:title" content="Roxology" />
    …which is NOT what my source code shows!!

    also, to test, i entered this url directly into a Facebook post, and it also reflects the incorrect tag.

    this is just with Facebook as far as i can tell.

    entering the same url into a Twitter post, renders it correctly. as well as at https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

    if i deactivate & delete this plugin, Facebook reads the page title. but i would like to have a slightly different og:title than the wp-admin page title.

    any ideas? have i missed something or is Facebook just being lame?
    thanks for your time & consideration.

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  • Thread Starter SyberKnight

    (@syberknight)

    fyi. i keep testing, but something is adding a metta og:title at the end of this plugins’ code block. i can’t figure out where it’s coming from. still hoping for ideas ??

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    Can you take screenshots of your main MTM settings page, and the MTM settings box for that specific page?

    Thread Starter SyberKnight

    (@syberknight)

    THANK YOU for replying Marcus!!!

    my deepest apologies tho – magically the issue seems to have fixed itself. i’m wondering if Facebook just needed a day without me pounding that re-scrape button to resolve its cache (or something?).

    but i have discovered now, that for Facebook, the og:title AND og:url at minimum needs to be page-specific. all the rest (og:description, image, etc) can be in the main MTM settings page.
    is that your experience as well?

    thank you for your time. i appreciate having a clean & simple plugin for this stuff.

    FYI: the MTM Screen Element in the page Edit sticks itself to the bottom of the screen, after all the other screen elements. i can move it up, but any time i save edits or leave & come back, it’s back down at the bottom again. this may be intentional, but thought i’d mention it in case you didn’t know.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    Hi, sorry for the delayed reply.

    can you elaborate regarding the screen element? On what page do you see this specifically?

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