Issue With Twitter Cards

I have the same problem after the last update

Hi @eliserd,

The issue with Twitter Cards seems to be a cache issue. I confirmed this by scrapping one of those given posts multiple times via Twitter Card Validator and got this expected output https://prnt.sc/ute294. Images referenced in a Card are also cached based on URL. This often causes images to not update.

Since Yoast SEO has outputted all the required Open Graph meta tags on the page source this particular issue doesn’t seem to be related to our plugin.

Further, please refer to Twitter’s documentation about Refreshing a Card in a Tweet when such a problem occurs.

@xaviermi

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@eliserd you are using the plugin “WP Fastest Cache Premium”.
If it’s a cache issue (as @suascat_wp claims), in my case it could be some additional function of the premium plugin (on another website, with the basic version of “WP Fastest Cache” i don’t have this problem).

I will try to do some tests and if necessary to report it to the developer of the cache plugin…

Hello,

I have been using Yoast for almost 1 year and 8 months, since the last update, any post i share in Twitter, Whatsapp, featured image is missing (In twitter its showing blank / in Whats App it shows either website LOGO or without image).

This issue started since the recent update. Even some times Facebook is not fetching the featured image from the post URL.

I have taken WordPress support team, and they guided me to find the issue by deactivating all the plugins except jetpack. And in the process we happen to find the issue with Yoast plugin, Also according to an update from WP support team, Yoast has an update on Sept 29, 2020. Even we started facing the image missing issue in social media around the same time.

Is there a away out for this?

website URL: https;//nagalandexpress.com (Funny thing is that, even this URL if i share in Twitter, it is not showing any image, it suppose to show website icon.)

I have checked Twitter debugging alongwith WP support team, it is showing the featured image, but when the post URL is shared it is not showing any image, rather a blank part. (You can try tweeting any post url in twitter and see)

Hello,

I have followed the Twitter documentation already, thus why I am here.

For example, this post: https://www.thenerddaily.com/cover-reveal-write-christmas-by-thommy-hutson/ just went live and it automatically doesn’t recognise the image, which is unusual because I have never experienced this problem until a few days ago, which coincidentally was after I updated the Yoast plugin.

I had to input this link well over 30 times until the card updated with the image, and this is not something I have time to do for every article when it goes live so people can share the correct looking article tweet.

I am well aware of the Card Validator as I have had to use it previously when we’ve changed the image of our articles, so I know it typically works almost straight away.

As noted above, there appears to be some kind of issue with the most recent update?

I confirm that I too started having the problem after the last YOAST update. At this point, since there are several of us complaining about the problem, I deduce that those YOAST developers will have to work quickly to fix this bug.

For now, I’ll have to manually upload the articles (with photos) to Twitter to avoid the problem. Hope in YOAST they resolve soon.

Update. After several tests on three websites, even turning off the cache plugin the problem on Twitter still occurs. I hope the YOAST developers will fix this bug soon.

@eliserd
Were you able to resolve the issue? We ask as we looked at most recent post here https://www.thenerddaily.com/review-a-deadly-education-by-naomi-novik/ and looked at the source code and we can see Yoast is outputting the right image of: https://www.thenerddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-Deadly-Education-by-Naomi-Novik-Review.jpg

See image which shows source code tags are correct: https://pasteboard.co/JugnwQg.png.

We then tested in Twitter and the right image appeared when we tweeted the URL. See image: https://pasteboard.co/JugnKGY.png

If you are still experiencing the issue please provide us with a URL that still has it.

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Thanks!

The issue still ongoing. Yes, some of the recent articles appear to work now as I spent half an hour using the card validator to run each of them through dozens of times in order for the image to update.

Articles are still not working as they go live. For example, these two have gone up since my last message.

https://www.thenerddaily.com/mara-rutherford-kingdom-of-sea-and-stone-interview/
https://www.thenerddaily.com/review-beyond-the-ruby-veil-by-mara-fitzgerald/

I have never had to do this before and the only change that has been made to our WordPress site in the last week is updating Yoast.

Hi,

We checked on both https://www.thenerddaily.com/mara-rutherford-kingdom-of-sea-and-stone-interview/ & https://www.thenerddaily.com/review-beyond-the-ruby-veil-by-mara-fitzgerald/ in the Twitter Card Validator and we do see that it isn’t loading any image in the preview. We checked on the image URL itself https://www.thenerddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mara-Rutherford-Kingdom-of-Sea-and-Stone-Author-Interview.jpg for one of the posts and it seems to be loading just fine. Your robots.txt file also doesn’t suggest anything that could be blocking the crawlers from accessing the image.

Could you let us know if you are using any caching plugin or is there anything in your setup or workflow when publishing these posts?

Also, just to be sure, we would like to rule out any plugin or theme conflicts that may occur. The fastest way to do this is to?deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme?like?Twenty Nineteen.?

Test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the?Health Check & Troubleshooting?plugin. This plugin allows you to run a conflict check?without affecting normal visitors to your site.

As we can imagine that you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process:?How to check for plugin conflicts.

Hello,

I decided to rollback Yoast to 14.9 after your response and since then, posts that have gone live, their image is automatically picked up and the card validator is not needed…so it seems there is an issue with the latest update.

Hi @eliserd,

Thank you for your reply.

That is odd, as there were no changes to this particular functionality between 14.9 and 15.0 when we check our changelog.

We did check both URLs again and see that the Twitter Card Validator does show the images for both of them. Were you able to see any difference in the Yoast output regarding the Open Graph metatag?

<meta property="og:image" content="https://i1.wp.com/www.thenerddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mara-Rutherford-Kingdom-of-Sea-and-Stone-Author-Interview.jpg?fit=1000%2C742&ssl=1" />

We might believe there was/is a conflict with another plugin when you were running 15.0. Maybe it was incorrectly cached in your W3 Total Cache plugin. In order to troubleshoot why it works on 14.9 and not on 15.0, we’d like you to do the conflict check with 15.0 to see if we can find the culprit.

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