Andrew Arthur Dawson

@drawmyface there are definitely some concerns with that plug-in when I went to the page to read about it? A few users lost their database due to installing it and others said there was a malicious file put on their system that remained after using it and deleting it. I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed about this now. Man I wish this was simple fix. Code snippets should have changed this easily. Would a jetpack software update fix this?

@drawmyface Are there any risks to installing that plugin that could mess up my operations. I ask this because as I said I’m not technical with WordPress and godaddy support isn’t helpful more than not to help fix anything. If it is simply me downloading a plug-in and it only is me pointing and clicking to see something and is read only where I can’t screw something up then great? Just let me work the exact steps and any risks please ok Dan?

@drawmyface yup, nope. I am not on their cpanal sadly. I have very little options with my managed WordPress with godaddy. Been down this path before the very first time I had issues with jetpack. If my jetpack update fails I use FileZilla to delete the appropriate jetpack folders and such and of course I can make minor changes there but my version of WordPress does not give me access to change the database core files. If this is a core file change then no I don’t have access and I guess I’m screwed and don’t know how to fix this. I purposely have been on this version of godaddy for six years because I don’t understand all this technical stuff with WordPress and wanted godaddy to handle any WordPress updates and core database file changes. The next upgrade to my platform is the one you are speaking of and I absolutely do not want to migrate to that because it puts more control in my hands and believe me I have screwed my whole WordPress up just in going into FileZilla before so giving me more power to manage stuff isn’t a good thing. So if I can’t access that file in my normal jetpack accessing option when I have to go into FileZilla to delete my jetpack folders then I have no solution?

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@drawmyface the only access I have to ever looking at my database has been going into FileZilla. I’ve made some minor changes in there before using it. That’s all Godaddy allows for me. So if I can’t make this change there like I have when I’ve deleted the jetpack folders there due to an update failure them I don’t have any other solution. This is option I’ve always used to accessing my database and the only one I have. I have managed wordless and my options are limited but FileZilla is indeed what I’ve always used to access my database.

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@drawmyface The code snippet I put in my last reply is the exact code that I ran and then deactivated after running. Are the quotes correct in what I cut and pasted into here? If so, I use FillaZilla and just want to make absolutely sure where this option is to check? When I log in to FileZilla and am looking at the root, where exactly do I navigate to, to see this file and double click it to look at it?

@drawmyface Ok, so I placed your code in. This is what is showing in my code snippets right now:

add_filter( ‘jetpack_publicize_options’, function( $option ) {
$option[‘attach_media’] = false;
return $option;
} );

It’s active and I have it set to “run snippet everywhere” like I did the first time when the function was set to true. Sadly, this still didn’t turn off the way it’s posting the picture. It’s still seperating the picture when it comes over from the Jetpack publicize. But as soon as I delete it and place the link in Twitter to share, it does it correctly. I don’t know what to do now? Why can’t I turn this off? Does it have to do with me having it set to “run snippet everywhere”? The only other snippet I had in my snippet list is one Jeremy Herve had me do ages ago but I deactivated but never deleted. It’s the following:

function custom_jetpack_default_image() {
return ‘https://thetwelfthstep.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/For-New-Blog4-1024×315.jpg’;
}
add_filter( ‘jetpack_open_graph_image_default’, ‘custom_jetpack_default_image’ );

It’s been turned off for years so I can’t imagine that’s impacting it? Regardless I just deleted it so it’s not even in snippets, but I don’t think anything has t one invalidated for it because I’ve been running auto posting from Jetpack fine for a long time. So I have no idea, I used your code, ran it with the everywhere option running, and then posted tonight automatically to twitter and it continues to show up with the picture separate until I delete and repost the link. I hope you can make some sense in this and help me to get this working without having to keep deleting my auto Tweet and manually doing it to make it show up the way it used to.

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@drawmyface That is indeed interesting. I thought a snippet only works so long as its set to on and once off its temporary use becomes off? Isn’t that the point of snippets? And once I set this on and run it. Can I turn it back off or do I need to leave snippets active?

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@drawmyface Nope, I deactivated Code Snippets and CDN is definitely turned off. Publicize using jetpack for Twitter definitely makes the image separate now. If I delete the auto tweet and repost using the same link it invests the picture and tweet like I want. It’s almost as if that code snippet is still active but I checked and I indeed have code snippets deactivated and that snippet was turned off before I did that. It’s almost as if there’s a memory I had that snippet on at one point? I do not have any other plugins or custom code or anything that does meta data. Try this in your testing. Add that code snippet from above, auto publicize to Twitter to see if it separates the picture, if it does then good because it should and then deactivate that code snippet and then auto publicize again to Twitter and see if somehow it still thinks that snippet is active? Maybe it’s holding it on in memory?

@drawmyface Ok, interesting enough, I turned off that code snippet a few days ago and also turned off the CDN on my Godaddy hosting settings page. While that issue is gone that I originally reported, what doesn’t make sense is that I still have the image being sent to Twitter on my posting separately? I have the jetpack photon thing off and have jetpack automatically post to Twitter like always and yet the image still shows up separately. But if I delete the automatic posting on Twitter that comes over and repost manually using the link from my blog posting, it posts the way I want which is with the image and link together so that it I click the picture it goes to my blog? Can someone explain why it auto posts differently from the manual post?

@csonnek yes I’d say the problem was the CDN. I still have two questions though.

1. If the photon thing with jetpack is turned on, does it take my image when I post and then send it to Twitter? When I used it before i thought it also slowed down my site?
2. That code snippet I realized was to handle the Twitter image like jetpack used to. It takes my picture separately and posts on below the data for the Twitter post. I believe without that the posting is a picture that can be clicked directly as a URL?

@csonnek I turned off CDN on GoDaddy Managed WordPress and both of those examples work now with the right image displaying. Is it ok to still leave that section of code in code snippets in…you never explained what that is actually doing when activated?

@csonnek hi there thank you for responding. I’m not sure I understand as I have a very low understanding of WordPress hence why I use Managed WordPress on Godaddy to assist in my lack of knowledge. How do I switch to the Image CDN that is built into Jetpack? Is that a free feature and how will it work with my image that is in each of my blogs to ensure Twitter won’t block it?

Ok, so I found out on the Jetpack boards a section of code that Jetpack developers put out there to help with someone else who had a similar issue. I guess the image was no longer being carried over past Jetpack 8.5 so it was allowing Twitter to get it, which in my site’s case I guess the robots were being blocked? I’m not sure I understand that, but I found this code:

add_filter( ‘jetpack_publicize_option’, function( $option ) {
$option[‘attach_media’] = true;
return $option;
} );

I added it using Code Snippets and labeled it “Jetpack Publicize Image” and activated it. Wherever I use the main image I’ve been using in the majority of my blog postings it works. But if I change the image to anything else, it doesn’t work. Here are two examples, where the image is still being blocked:

https://thetwelfthstep.com/2020/09/09/words-on-bathroom-walls-a-truly-stunning-masterpiece-about-schizophrenia-for-a-new-generation/

https://thetwelfthstep.com/2020/01/15/messiah-a-riveting-netflix-series-that-asks-us-to-ponder-what-wed-all-do-if-the-messiah-supposedly-had-returned/

Facebook renders all of my images that I attach in my blog’s just fine. It’s just Twitter.

Hopefully someone can help shed some light on why my own personal image that I use in every one of my postings is working with this code snippet but not any other images that I attach in my blog, including other versions of that main water image. Can someone please help explain why this works in the one case but for nothing else and how to fix this for all cases?

Sincerely,
Andrew

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If it was a communication issue would that error indicate it was my hosting server not being able to reach you or vice versa or something else? So when say Facebook tried to take the link to my blog article and when I put it in my timeline and only the name of my site showed up with that link, is that showing Facebook couldn’t communicate to my site through Jetpack’s way of handling the Image tags? As I said when the issue happened it was all my blog articles affected, not just a new post and it was with all social media. It wasn’t with the image itself which is always at the end of every one of my articles, it was communicating somewhere and failing to get that image. I’m just trying to understand where the failure in communication was probably happening?

@supernovia Just wanted to check in and (a) say that my posting tonight for my blog went through just fine with no errors on either Twitter or Facebook, like it always did prior to last night. For whatever the reason, last night only, when I posted at my usual time at 12:03am or so, I got this curl error and timeout issue where the picture (g:image) wouldn’t come over. I tried multiple old postings that had gone through fine, to answer your question, and none of them worked. My entire arsenal of past successful postings suddenly had the intermittent issue that if I kept hitting Scape in Facebook debugger or Debug for the Twitter tool, it would eventually work intermittently. Today, it’s back to normal with it working ALL the time. So, I”m going to make the assumption there was a communication issue between Jetpack and my server causing this. Regardless, Jetpack didn’t respond yet to let me know their thoughts, but hopefully they will. I’m just glad the issue isn’t present and at least I know it’s not anything I did.