I noticed that since last W3TC update (0.9.7.3), any link shared to WhatsApp by using any Android device is now without an image. This same procedure works fine if the device is iOS.
Thank you.
This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by SottoVoce.
This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by SottoVoce.
Hi people, i discovered a solution.
Instead of sharing the link like https://www.faunasys.com.br, you need to share it with the php extension, like: https://faunasys.com.br/index.php…. and whatsapp will load the information.
Before that i have tried everthing without sucess. Nowadays i use W3TC, Autoptmize, Async and cloudfare.
Thanks
Another thing to try is disable the ‘Optimize HTML’ option in Autoptimize. That worked for me. I believe WhatsApp scraping somehow failed to pick up the image when there are no line breaks on the HTML source.
Also, share another link from your site, WhatsApp caches links that have already been shared and previous ones will still show up without thumbnails.
when also using Autoptimize:
* make sure “inline all CSS” is not active
* enabling “optimize HTML” actually triggers W3TC’s HTML minify, which is more … pro-active in removing stuff then AO’s ??
@optimizingmatters, yes I forgot to post my answer here last year, but this is what was causing this error and many other errors related to W3TC/Autoptimize compatibility that I found on different sites.
Thanks