Thread: Linking website to Facebook

Linking website to Facebook

http://www.ocalasclassifieds.com/, is the link to my site, when i use that same link to a new post in Facebook, the post information it grabs from the link is for BlueHost ... which is where I host the site at. This is the first time I have ever seen that. Try adding a link in facebook and wait for it to auto populate the information. You don't have to actually post the link. I just added Yoast SEO plugin as well and it still does the same thing... thoughts?

This is what it is wanting to post:
Welcome ocalasclassifieds.com - BlueHost.com
http://www.ocalasclassifieds.com/

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When it should be grabbing my title and meta-description .. right?

I'm also using the Jetpack plugin and I can not reproduce this problem. Please check with your hosting service.

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This has seemed to fix my problem, adding meta tags for the OpenGraph stuff ...

<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Free Classifieds of Ocala - Have something for sale?" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.ocalasclassifieds.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.ocalasclassifieds.com/ocala-free-classified-ads-authentication-logo-large.jpg" />
<meta property="og:description" content="We help you recycled your old stuff! Post it for sale in our free classifieds of Ocala! " />

This link helps as well so you can see what FB sees ...
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

Unfortunately, the problem I am having now is that since I hardcoded those meta tags above, when I try to use the jetpack facebook button to share an ad, all I get is the information in the meta tags above and not the information that pertains to ad itself ...

Although now since the updated functions.php file you attached, if I delete the hard coded meta tags everything seems to function properly again with sharing except I don't know where it's pulling the decription from or it's a cached description. (There's a typo in the description and I'm thinking it's a cache issue.)

Is there a way to make the meta properties for the og: tags dynamic?

Ultimately I'd like this:

<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:title" content="<PAGE TITLE FROM THE YOAST SEO TITLE SETTINGS>!"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="<CURRENT PAGES URL>"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="<NORMAL ABILITY TO CHOOSE AN IMAGE FROM PAGE>"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="<CURRENT PAGES DESCRIPTION FROM YOAST SEO SETTINGS>"/> -->

I'm going to try the alfa child theme and see if that takes care of my issues ...

I installed the alfa but Yoast's Social Settings seems to be the thing to use. I have used Yoast for a long time and didn't realize it did the opengraph stuff as well. Although I couldn't figure out why all my titles were the same until I realized I was using yoast for the titles .. duh.

I do have one problem now. The facebook debugger sees the ad's image but facebook doesn't bring the thumbnail over.
(It actually sees two of the same images since I think the alfa theme is pulling one as well.)
It looks like an image pops in the share for a second then vanishes. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

http://www.ocalaequinesales.com/ads/...-another-test/

Here's a link to it if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Thx.

For the record, your thumbnails have to be larger than 50x50 before Facebook will recognize them in your open graph meta tags...
Change your thumbnail size in the Wp-Admin to 150x150 px. Settings>Media - thumbnail size

I set mine to 150x150, didn't try any smaller ones...

I researched a ton of crap and it turned out that this was my stupid problem ...