How to change social media sharing custom message for republishing old posts?

  • Resolved gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hello. I unpublished, edited and am now republishing an old post. The problem is that I can’t change the custom message that will appear in Facebook and Twitter sharing when the post gets republished. It’s still the old custom message, which is no longer relevant so I need to change it. But it’s grayed out.

    Does anybody know how to do this?

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  • Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    I mean I edited the custom message on facebook, not through Jetpack. ??

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    By the way, I also unpublished and republished another post at the same time as the one above. I changed the URL from /quarantine-cats-memes/ to /quarantine-cat-memes/ but it didn’t get republicized to Facebook and Twitter.

    Plugin Support supernovia

    (@supernovia)

    It’s not supposed to get republished automatically, so when it does that’s a bug.

    Can you try these steps though?

    – Create a new post
    – Set the social media message under the Jetpack icon
    – Save a draft
    – Publish

    Let me know how that goes.

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    Hi. Sorry, the only drafts I have right now already have a publish time set. I don’t know how to reset it to right now. I’m kind of setting all my posts to go up at exactly 3:33pm of whatever date, so it’s one of the things I set when I’m saving drafts.

    I haven’t had any issues with Publicize when I’m publishing new posts though. It was just that one time when I republished a couple of old posts. By the way, I’d rescheduled both at exactly 3:33pm on the same date, if that affects anything. One of the posts got republicized to facebook while the other did not.

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    I’d noticed WordPress was getting confused with which post to display first, and the Previous Post and Next Post buttons weren’t working on those two posts. So I changed one of them to 3:34pm afterwards.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by gorgeouskitty.
    Plugin Support KokkieH

    (@kokkieh)

    If it only happened with that one post, it was likely just a one-time glitch. I’m marking this resolved now, but if it happens again, please let us know.

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    All right. Thank you. ??

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