Facebook stopped fetching ‘og:title’ Picure and data don’t share.

You will notice following message on Facebook debugger page, if you debug url https://whiskeypolitics.net/john-hinderaker/
Curl Error : OPERATION_TIMEOUTED Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
Which implies your webpage is blocking the Facebook crawler. You would like to check your .htaccess file or any relevant plugin/functionality you are using.

thank you. What should I look for in the .htaccess?

Search for facebookexternalhit in htaccess and robots.txt files and let us know the content of these files if you find this.

As per YOAST:

htaccess:
# Begin cache control #
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresActive off
<FilesMatch “.*”>
Header unset Cache-Control
Header unset Expires
Header unset Last-Modified
FileETag None
Header unset Pragma
</FilesMatch>
# End cache control #
AddType text/html .html_gzip
AddType text/xml .xml_gzip

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
# Wordfence WAF
<Files “.user.ini”>
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</IfModule>
</Files>

# END Wordfence WAF

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robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:

There is nothing in the .htaccess and robots.txt files which is blocking the Facebook crawler.

Ok, so what could it be? Since the latest WP update, we cannot link new posts to Facebook. It’s killing us!

You should try contacting your website hosting support regarding this.