facebook share works on some posts but not others

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    When you share a post on Facebook, or when Jetpack Publicize publishes a post to your Facebook page, Facebook crawls the page and looks for Open Graph meta tags in the head to build a complete post preview (with an image, title, description, …).

    Jetpack automatically creates these Open Graph Meta tags for you unless you already use another Open Graph plugin, in which case we let the other plugin handle things. Looking at your site, you seem to be using the Yoast SEO plugin to manage these tags.

    The tags are correctly created and added to your posts, but for some reason Facebook wasn’t able to see any of these tags last time it crawled your site. You can see that by entering one of your posts’ URLs in Facebook Debugger:
    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

    You can then click on the “Fetch New Scrape Information” button to force Facebook to crawl the URL again, and look for tags. Since the tags are now there, Facebook finds them and generates a good post preview:
    https://i.wpne.ws/cizP

    Did you recently add the Yoast SEO plugin to your site, thus fixing the issue after the post was published?
    If so, could you try to publish a new post and let me know if you continue to experience issues?

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter akione

    (@akione)

    Hi,

    Thank you.

    I have had Yoast SEO since the start.

    I used the “Fetch New Scrape Information” button and it worked. Had to do it 1-3 times for certain posts to get the required post preview though.

    Thank you. ??

    This support forum has been really helpful.

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