when posting a link to Facebook, wrong description is displayed

  • Resolved danielanaidu

    (@danielanaidu)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    when I post a link of my website’s home page, https://www.mostboringblog.com, to Facebook, FB pulls some really old information from when the site was first created, and I can’t figure out where it’s finding it or how to make it update the information. Here is what FB displays for the site: “Most Boring Blog – Just another WordPress site
    Hello world! Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Author editorPosted on August 14, 20161 Comment on Hello world!”

    However, all that information was updated days ago. And yet FB continues to show that old info instead of the new info. This only happens with the home page. I even tried to change the home page to a static page instead of a latest posts page, and that didn’t fix it.

    Any ideas on what is going on and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

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  • The last time that URL was scraped by Facebook was on August 14, so I just scraped it again using the Facebook Sharing Debugger; and that gave me an updated result which no longer includes the text from that first post — so try sharing it again and see if it works correctly for you now.

    (And anytime you run into a problem like this in the future, you can use the Sharing Debugger just like I did, to check to see what data Facebook is collecting from your site, and re-scrape it if necessary.)

    Thread Starter danielanaidu

    (@danielanaidu)

    that absolutely fixed it! thank you so much! i am saving that link. i didn’t know about the debugger. i really appreciate it.

    Thread Starter danielanaidu

    (@danielanaidu)

    resolved

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