"Facebook Status Update text" not displaying introductory text

As explained in the user manual – the Facebook Status Update text is what is published when you post as a Status Update – it is NOT used when posting as a regular wall post.

The Post Attribute, when its not set to the post excerpt, is simply a little “pre-amble” Its not supposed to contain things like a title as that information is included in the post.

https://wordbooker.tty.org.uk/2013/05/05/working-round-facebooks-new-news-feed-layout/ covers the use of the “Use Post Excerpt as Post Attribute”

ok, the reason i wanted the Post Attribute to contain more than the pre-amble is because the page forwards posts to our twitter account, so i was hoping for the twitter followers to see more than just “new blog post”

as for Status Updates, from what i understand you cannot post a thumbnail with them, so that is a less than ideal option. so if i gain the “new blog post: %title” feature by setting the “post as status update” it means i have to lose the thumbnail?

Status updates are text only – they are simply a status update, they’re supposed to be short with no images or formatting (It’s a different API to a wall post)

Looking at the code the Post Attribute would seem to be passed through the attribute parser so you might find that the tags work in there too.

and right you are, it worked, thanx!