Twitter not showing photos from posts, also homepage problem

  • Resolved EAC2015

    (@eac2015)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi – I went through the social media instructions in AIOSEO. I got FB working correctly but not twitter. It is set to summary with large image and first image in content. We have no photos showing up on twitter at all.

    Same when we post the homepage to twitter. I have that set to show the featured image but it doesn’t show any image.

    Please help? Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    Hey @eac2015,

    Do you see any images when you debug your homepage URL using Twitter’s card validator?
    https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

    – Arnaud

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    Hi – There is no photo, just a generic colorless scroll thing.
    Thanks.

    Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    Can you post the URL of your homepage here? I’d like to inspect the source code to see what our plugin is outputting.

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    ethiopianadoptionconnection.org

    thank you

    Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    It’s happening because you’re blocking Twitter from accessing the image through your robots.txt by disallowing access to /wp-content/uploads/.

    – Arnaud

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    can I ask you a few things? I thought robots.txt was related to indexing. Why would the photos show up fine on FB but not twitter? What am I missing?

    Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    The robots.txt basically tells search engines and other bots what they can and cannot access on your website; it’s not exactly the same as noindexing something, because if you noindex a page, they can still access it; they just won’t include it in search results. If you disallow it in your robots.txt however, you completely block their access to it.

    However, not every bot “listens” to what your robots.txt tells them to do; I can only assume that Facebook’s bot is one of those and it ignores robots.txt rules.

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    Thanks for explaining that. I’ll have to rethink this.

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