Pinterest not picking up description

  • Just in the last few days, Pinterest has stopped picking up the description. It picks up the title instead of what I put in the Scriptless Pin description box. This has never been a problem until the past few days.

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  • Plugin Author Robin Cornett

    (@littlerchicken)

    Can you please share a link to an affected post?

    Thread Starter Sapphire

    (@sapphire)

    It’s every new post on any of my sites, so I suspect it’s a Pinterest change or a recent update to Scriptless.

    I’ve set a post up for you on a non-production site. Try pinning it. The Scriptless description is the same as the one sentence in the post. But Pinterest picks up the title tag name as description instead.

    https://retrofoodfinds.com/posts/lemon-meringue-pie/

    Plugin Author Robin Cornett

    (@littlerchicken)

    Thank you! I’m confirming what you’re seeing. I have not changed the Scriptless Pinterest functionality recently, so it may be something Pinterest has changed. However, their developer information for building “save” buttons has not changed anything about the description.

    Since Scriptless is sending only the post URL, custom description, and image URL to Pinterest, I would guess that once you arrive on Pinterest, there is some kind of additional check back to the site which is overriding the description with the post title, since Scriptless isn’t including that in the sharing link (if a custom description is set).

    Thanks for your patience–unfortunately I do not have an answer for you at this time, but I’ll keep digging and see if I can find one.

    Thread Starter Sapphire

    (@sapphire)

    Thanks for investigating and explaining all this. I suspected it was a Pinterest change, but I’m glad you’re able to confirm it’s not somehow just my sites.

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