• Resolved jamespond

    (@jamespond)


    Enabling Yoast SEO on my website causes only the first word of the post to show in the preview. With the plugin disabled, FB will fetch the preview correctly (usually the first sentence from the post). The Yoeast SEO fixes missing og:image property on my page so I’d rather keep using it.

    I have checked for conflicts using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin and didn’t find any plugin conflicts issues.

    Is there any way to fix this behaviour?

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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We checked on the page https://www.forgottenchernobyl.net/ in the Facebook Debugger here and after rescraping the page a few times the og:description loaded as the following:

    <meta property="og:description" content="Reports from the Chernobyl Zone" />

    Can you please confirm whether this is what you expect to see for this value?

    If you are seeing unexpected behavior or appearance for one of your site’s social previews when sharing it on social media, this can be caused by the social media site caching old metadata for that page. This is why you may not immediately see the new values you set up for the page reflected in the page’s preview when you share it (image, title, description, etc).

    To resolve this, we would first recommend to try checking your page’s link using Facebook’s Sharing Debugger tool located at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/. Can you please try running the Facebook Sharing Debugger on the page you are experiencing the issue on, and under ‘When and how we last scraped the URL’ clicking the ‘Scrape Again’ option and letting us know whether this resolves the issue? The ‘Scrape Again’ option will force Facebook to update it’s cache for your page’s link.

    Please note that to successfully update the cache it may require re-scraping your page several times as whether the page’s data can be read may take several requests between Facebook and the server your website is hosted on. Also, this guide includes more information on this and explains in detail how to do this: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/facebook-sharing-updated-details/

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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