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Sharing articles on Facebook displays wrong article excerpt

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Started 1 year ago by ckmede
Latest reply from Devin
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ckmede
Member

Hello, when we try to share a story to Facebook it doesn't display the opening paragraph of the story in the description. Instead, it displays a block of content in our mega menu.

How can we fix this so that an excerpt of the posted article shows up in the description?

Here's the site: http://www.fresnostatenews.com

Here's a screenshot to help explain what's happening: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/fbsharing.jpg

Posted 1 year ago #
ckmede
Member

Wondering if anyone can provide some assistance with this...

Thank you

Posted 1 year ago #
ckmede
Member

This is a problem with the Shoutbox theme right out of the box. I have tried installing several Facebook Open Graph plugins for WP but no luck.

Looking forward to some help...

Posted 1 year ago #
Devin
Moderator

Hi ckmede,

I'm not very familiar with Facebook OG so I've marked the topic to be looked at by another support crew. No guarantee of a fix, but he may be able to provide a direction at the very least.

Regards,

Devin

Posted 1 year ago #
kita817
Member

It is also not letting me select an image from the post. I am having the same issues.

Posted 1 year ago #
Dude
Dude

Hi!

Did you try Yoast SEO: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/ - it works very well with og meta data.

Best regards,
Peter

Posted 1 year ago #
kita817
Member

This plugin did not resolve my facebook posting issues.

Posted 1 year ago #
ckmede
Member

This might narrow down the issue:

The bug occurs when you enable the checkmark labeled "Use the description to create a Text Block..." when creating a mega menu within Appearance > Menus in WordPress. I had a paragraph in there and it seems to complain when the <p> tags are inserted. I tried <span> and it also bugs out. I just stripped out the description and it works fine now, even without the Yoast SEO plugin.

See here: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/fbbug.jpg

Posted 1 year ago #
Devin
Moderator

Hey ckmede,

Thanks for the additional details. I've flagged the post for Kriesi to take a look at as I'm not sure what else you could do.

Regards,

Devin

Posted 1 year ago #