Jellico

Well @mikes41720, I wish I could say that I solved the issue, but there must be a gremlin somewhere..

This is what Facebook says when I’m using sharing debuggerSee screenshot

But when I’m using the function scraped url, (I’ll basicly see the source code if the page), there are no sign of the frog (the “replacement” photo from Yoast).
I do however see:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://usercontent.one/wp/rainbowpets.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC_0019-1024x680.jpg"> and that’s the right photo..
I don’t know if there are something to do with the address isn’t my own (varnish cache)..

And as you can see in the image, there’s a loop in the url.. which isn’t happening when Yoast is disabled..

@anjali94 surprise! It’s me again!

I’ve done a lot of testing and testing and have come to this conclusion:

If the post is published and are shown on my site on a post-template page (the one that shows post) that DOESN’T have the function to display the featured image..

(I have no idea why something like that exist, but it does)
Then will Facebook take the first, best image it can find on that page as featured image.

If that’s facebook fault or yours, I have no idea.
It Yoast is handling the og, they will mess it up more..

@mikes41720 good question, I’m going to remove WP2social and do some testing with only Yoast after work (about 12hours) and I’ll get back to you with the result..

Ok @mikes41720, I’ve been testing a lot now, and I found that Yoast, when og function is activated, displays ANY photo prior to the correct one.

If I’ve got a photo selected in “display if no photo is found” photo, it will be displayed.

I also found the strange white “photos” was actually images in popups that where in the page, and when scraping from Facebook developer api, I found that those photos was specified in the og data (the popup, not the published photo)

First after removing any other photos in the post page, it worked, however, another issue has appeared.

This info is from Facebook scraper

Input URL	arrow-right	https://rainbowpets.org/testing-testing-7/
og:url Meta Tag	arrow-right	https://rainbowpets.org/?p=4716
301 HTTP Redirect	arrow-right	https://rainbowpets.org/testing-testing-7/
og:url Meta Tag	arrow-right	https://rainbowpets.org/?p=4716

And that shows on a conflict between my urls from the og urls, that’s causing an infinitive loop
That must be a bug?

.. Now I need a break, 40 posts and over 100 api calls, I’m dead tired!

Thx @anjali94, I didn’t know that, now it will be easier ?

I added these lines to .htaccess:

Redirect /feed/ /force404_feed
Redirect /tag/ /force404_tag
Redirect /category/ /force404_category

These will simply redirect all attempts to access the rss, tag & categories.

I’m also using the Relevanssi plug-in as replacement for WordPress own search.

I’ve also added Ultimate Category Excluder, to prevent categories to leak..

I’m also using Yoast seo, where I have specified what’s allowed to be in the site_index.xml

Thank you @mikes41720 for the help, I think I understood how it works now..

Hi @anjali94
Thx for still trying to help me.
The 404 you struck was because I deleted everything to make a clean restart of everything.

I was testing last night (my time cet+1), and added the clean cache, but as it uses more api calls, I could only do 3 tests before it shut me down, and I couldn’t wait an whole hour to keep testing.

But it was behaving strangely yesterday, but as I wrote, the 10api/hour died quick when using clean cache.

I’m going to mark this as solved, and I will do some more testing, slowly with 10api/hour.

Thx for your time and support.

Hi @anjali94 when I posted those two;

https://rainbowpets.org/testing-only-wp2social-online-2/

https://rainbowpets.org/testing-only-wp2social-online-3/

I had Yoast disabled.
I had force og on in WP2social.

Nr 2 is of a 4mb photo, and it’s not shown on Facebook
Nr 3 is a 560k photo of a feather.

If you look at https://Facebook.com/Rainbowpets.org only photo 3 is visible, the other, nr 2 looks like it’s some kind of error message being displayed, it’s not the sunset as the photo on my site is.

Now, if Yoast is disabled, and only WP2social is operational, why isn’t there any og information placed by WP2social?

Edit: thx for the link to debug
Checking with the debug, it clearly displayed image 2, can you see the correct image on Facebook? (Nr 2)

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jellico. Reason: Updated

@anjali94 hi again
I’ve tested both turning off the force og in WP2social and disabling Yoast.

…after experimenting now, with Yoast disabled, I found that some images don’t work regardless of Yoast.

If you visit facebook.com/Rainbowpets.org you will see my last 2 test posts, both the same except different images, one is showing, the other not..

Is your plug-in someway handling the photos or is it something that WordPress does, maybe that part don’t work ?

Edit: Maybe to big/small photo? The feather is original 560kb(I think) and the sunset is about 4mb.
But if there where restrictions like that, wouldn’t WP2social make sure of creating a viable size?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jellico. Reason: Added question

I’ve never specified an og:media in the media file, the wp2social handles that when I’m posting.

Wp2social is forcing an og tag upon publishing to Facebook, and somehow does Yoast interfere with it.

The users who are going to post on this site will never see these things, they will only fill out a form, and it’s done..

There must be someway to tell Yoast to ignore it and leave the function to wp2social.

@mikes41720 hi!

Well that works, it has always worked.
I just manually shared an old post and one I just created, both are being displayed on Facebook.
The issue I’m having is that Yoast is blocking the auto post as I previously mentioned.

@pcosta88 ops, I’m so sorry for the 404, I had the posts removed after they failed at Facebook. I have restored them so they will work now.
I have also activated Yoast again..

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jellico. Reason: Corrected an autocorrect

@pcosta88 1,2,3 Yes.

4. See https://www.facebook.com/Rainbowpets.org/

The last 4 posts there are available.
The title describe which is which.

In the Yoast settings you can choose a picture to be attached if your post don’t have any. If I select a photo there, it will always be displayed on my posts. As you can see on the pinned post (that photo was the one I put in your settings)
When I removed that one, the other “white”photo as you can see was attached. And when I disabled Yoast, you can see the photo it was suppose to be, a feather…

@nsgawli I’ve tried that, and it produced a hideous layout.

I just detected that WordPress had this as code: (when looking at the text editor part in the page editor)

<pre><code>[wpsc_create_ticket] </code></pre>

Try it, and see how vierd it looked..
Without that, it looks much better..