Facebook OG:

I’m having a similar issue since last update. When I do a Facebook Open Graph Object Debugger I get an OG Image Error despite having set an email under Company in Yoast. And with that it does not default to the desired image.

Error / Warning
Inferred Property The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

And no, Jetpack isn’t installed, I know that is sometimes problematic.

What i happening for me is that the <link-rel tag at the start of the Yoast Tags has the domain entered twice. This completely screws up all of the Opengrapgh tags. This has happened since the upgrade and the last one did not fix. The frustrating thing is that it was all working so very well.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

@jeffreyd000 I have seen this also at times if you look at the output it is usually because an <og:=””> value is in twice or is empty. My sole issue is that <link rel=”canonical” href=”..” /> is being treated by Facebook as re-direct because it enters the domain URL in twice. The other tags seem to take the domain from this value. See below.

The following will be treated as a redirect by the crawler:

A HTTP redirect
A <link rel=”canonical” href=”..” /> tag
A <meta property=”og:url” content=”..” /> tag

I’m having the same issue. Good to find that I’m not alone. I’ll report it as a bug.

Great. I see on another thread a user was talking about using the Yoast lug in settings for the canonical address. I can not see where that is. I can find no where in the Yoast settings that you indicates canonical address. Have I misunderstood?

I just heard back from the team.

After registering my bug report as “invalid”, this was the response from Rarst:

The issue with your page is exactly as Debugger puts it — you have multiple instances of OG data in page source.

Something else is outputting another set of data in addition to WP SEO, you will have to figure out what is doing it in your installation and reconcile to stick with single source of OG output.

It would be awesome if their plugin could do a check for duplicate info like this, but perhaps that’s impossible. In the meantime, I will check to see if there is, in fact, another source of OG data and if I can disable it.

Hope this helps.

I am not convinced to be honest. This came about on two sites immediately following an upgrade. It is ONLY on the tags created by Yoast and I think your issue is different. You are getting nutiple instances. I am not I am getting one corrupt YOAST tag bit multiple instances of the same tag. Where do I go to report this?

Thanks for your help,

From another thread I found you can set the canonical URL in the advanced settings. By doing this and entering the full URL it immediatly fixed the problem. All the Yoast tags are correct.

I think this means that it is YOAST that is adding the superflous domain. I now have the correct

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.domain.com/cornwall-visitor-information/royal-cornwall-show-2015-video/&#8221; />

instead of

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.domain.comhttps://www.domain.com/cornwall-visitor-information/royal-cornwall-show-2015-video/&#8221; />

This domain duplication is only incurring in the YOAST generated tags. Or at least only n the tags immediately under the YOAST header. I do not think another plug-in is interfering with the tags generated by YOAST if it was I do not think adding the canonical URL in the Yoast POST advanced settings would fix it.

It is NOT an issue of duplicate tags but of corrupted YOAST tags. Great that I have found a fix for all new posts but I really do not want to go back through fixing every post and page in the site!

I am not clear where we report this as a bug. Can you help?

I think your issue was similar but not the same I had that with a theme Social settings that were adding the tags which were empty. I disabled the themes ability to set OG tags and that fixed the duplicate issue.

Thanks again for all your help.

@nodrog2 We didn’t have the same issue. It turns out some of my settings had changed when migrated the site away from the dev server.

No The isue I have is specific to YOAST tags not duplicates but corrupt YOAST Tags. If I use the Yoast setting for the canonical URL for each page it goes away. Otherise the canonical setting is corrupted.

Since the last upgrade (2.21) NO og: tags being generated on posts. Nothing else has changed, using wordpress stock theme. If I view source and do a search for og: nothing comes up. This was working fine until last plugin update rounds. Not using many plugins.

My issue may be different in that the canonical url is ok in source, and resetting it doesn’t fix the problem. But there are still no og: tags being generated at all in the head, or the entire document. On other sites where I haven’t upgraded using the same theme and general plugin set, they are intact.

My image is fixed. The add og data checkbox was unchecked. Not sure how that happened, but it’s back.