Boston Tom

Thanks for the info! Sadly, I don’t have time to disable an actively running site to troubleshoot this but I’ve seen these blank-image tweets being sent from other sites that use Yoast (I check the page code). Most website owners may not even be aware that the Jetpack Twitter share button doesn’t include an image unless you manually specify it in the backend. Can you replicate that issue?
Also, I leave the social default image blank in the settings. Because it’s a news site, I have to have a different image for each article, not some generic one.
Right now the default image for FB and TW is the First Image found in the article (i.e., A prominent image from the page’s content). I don’t use WP’s Featured Image feature.
For the JetPack Twitter button to work, I have to manually choose the hi-res image because the first image in the article is a thumbnail with a width of 350px. Much too small for FB whether you use JetPack or some other sharing program.
Unfortunately, I can’t simply copy the hi-res URL when I select the thumbnail image for the article and simply paste it into the Facebook and Twitter fields as I could with All-in-one-SEO ( Will that feature be something you’ll be adding?). I have to manually select the hi-res image each time because Twitter won’t see the image when using the JetPack TW share button.

If we understand it correctly, when you share the link to Twitter, it shows the correct card preview. But when you use the Jetpack Twitter share button, it doesn’t show the correct preview?

Yes! It only happens with the JetPack Twitter share button. The other issue is that Yoast grabs the first image in the article (from the settings, which is fine), but it’s always a thumbnail, so I have to manually select the hi-res image for Facebook and Twitter. There’s also no way to copy and paste the URL to the high-res image so I have to pick the image twice (once for FB, once for TW). In All-in-one-SEO, you can copy the hi-res URL when you select your thumbnail picture and paste it into the Facebook and Twitter URL fields without having to jump through all these hoops. And if it’s an older image, I have to search for it each time. Make sense?

Hi Michael,
Well, it does output the twitter:image tag if you manually select an image in the backend via the Yoast SEO ‘box’ under the Social tab. If I don’t manually set it, it doesn’t output the image tag for Twitter. I always manually select the Facebook image, otherwise it will grab the first image in the article, which is just a thumbnail, and it looks terrible when posting to Facebook.

Regardless of whether I select the image myself, manually sharing to Twitter shows the image. And the validator shows it correctly. It’s only when sharing using the Jetpack twitter button does the image not appear unless I manually select the Twitter image.

I can’t figure out how to hide a link I want to share and I can’t edit my original support question to add the link via the hidden link field.

Update: When I manually select an image in the backend (in the Yoast box under Social) for Twitter, the twitter:image tag shows up on the frontend with the URL to the image I picked. It’s not using the image chosen for Facebook, or even the first image in the article (the default in the Yoast settings). I always pick the Facebook image because it grabs the low-resolution thumbnail image in the article that’s set for 350 px wide. Looks terrible on Facebook. But Twitter isn’t using that pic and just leaving it blank, despite showing in the preview with the hi-res Facebook pic. Does any of this make sense?

Hy Maybelline,
Thanks for the prompt reply The image shows up in the Post’s preview as per the article link you sent me. It’s also not my browser’s cache, cookies, etc., all of which I cleared (including the server cache). How do I know that? Because when people share a story to Twitter using the JetPack share button at the bottom of the post, I can see that image is blank on Twitter. If people share using something like Buffer, no issues (granted, Buffer allows you to pick any image it finds on the page). And all the images are under 1Mb.
I’m not a programmer but also not a newbie. It started happening with the 16.9 upgrade. I can see my Twitter notifications and the blank images started happening around that time.
It’s also missing the twitter:image meta property when you look at a post’s source code. It has all the other tags but that one. Please read my original post above because you seemed to have missed key items (such as the missing tag). Thanks.

That fixed it. I took a screenshot of my settings as all my settings and URL exclusions got deleted. BTW, the anti-crawler feature needs a whitelist box for IP addresses. It keeps blocking my third-party RSS feeder, Follow.it, so I had to turn it off. Thanks, Tom

I gave it a day to make sure it wasn’t the server and that seems to have resolved it. Haven’t checked the error log in the wp-admin folder which is where I found these errors. Using 2.7.1 so fingers crossed. Thanks!

Yes. That fixed it. Thanks!

Do I simply overwrite the plugin (v2.7.1) or do I have to deactivate it, delete it, and reinstall it using v2.7.0? Thanks!

I’m using version 5.159.7 and getting this error message too. Will the above instructions fix this for me?

Yes, it’s fixed. Thank you!

The plug-in goes into the mu-plugins directory. If you don’t have the mu-plugins directory, FTP to your site and create it in the wp-content directory. So the path would be /wp-content/mu-plugins/ Simply upload the entire force-https folder to this directory.

The mu stands for must use. Depending on your hosting company, you probably have it already. Little Bizzy plugins may require their autoloader.php script, which goes in the same directory. It’s a single file and was available on git-hub. Not sure if it was taken down by Little Bizzy.

A lot of their plugins are only available if you host your site on their servers. So they probably don’t have the time to provide support to non-hosting customers. My crappy hosting company is the same way and use their own proprietary plugins.

I use Really Simple SSL which is available here. You install it, activate it, and choose the settings right for you (the default settings should work just fine). Hope this helps.

That worked. I updated my first review to reflect that. Thanks!

I actually had edited my original post but the site takes a while to update comments. Hopefully the change will show up shortly.

How do I make the Recent posts display as two columns? I want to have it go across the top of my page, as sort of a mini frontpage, but I can’t do that with only one column. I’ve tried putting two ACF widgets in one widget location, but it stacks rather than running across.

I also have ‘Read More’ turned on, but it’s not showing up on the front end. Using latest version of WP and your plug-in. Thanks.