Hello, the posts on facebook show the author meta after the site, have a look:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9492/136468307.2/0_da844_2bb7ffe5_XL.jpg
How do I remove author from there?
Facebook puts in the info of the account you post under, meaning which account you’re logged in with when you “share” to Facebook. This is normal.
It will normally show
NAME OF WEBSITE | FB ACCOUNT THAT SHARED
e.g.,
https://www.facebook.com/Send2PressNewswire/posts/485665321535291
No, it is not a fb account. This is the name of admin on site (just one word).
NAME OF WEBSITE | name of admin who posted on site
And I do not have this while sharing my other site. It is just website and that is all.
On mashable.com they even edited the name of website
https://www.facebook.com/mashable/posts/10152405217759705
So it is not “mashable.com”, but just “mashable”
So I assume this info is editable. But I can not find where it is.
AH, you may be using Jetpack or something to “auto post” — that is different from sharing. Technically you shouldn’t be able to share/like something to FB without an account. SO, not sure how that is happening at all. Sorry.
Likely they edited in the OG tag data. Or, MASHABLE has a high-level account with FB (2 million members!), meaning the “account” is called MASHABLE and not a specific person. This likely means they have commercial account under business name, vs a “person” who then has a “page” like you and me.
Their OG tag clearly just says “Mashable” for site name.
<meta content="Mashable" data-page-subject="true" property="og:site_name" />
ON your site you would likely need to “not set” an author for a story you don’t want to have author on, and make sure in WP the “name” of your site is just name and not name.xyz.
In the case with Send2Press.com – the reason it shows that vs “Send2Press” is because all shares go through a shortcode/302 redirect. If shared directly, it should pick up the OG tag "<meta property="og:site_name" content="Send2Press Newswire">"
That may not help at all. But, it was my impression/experience in how that all works.
Check your meta tags for Facebook and Twitter (YOAST SEO or similar is useful for setting these up properly). Facebook “should” pull from the info in your OG tags, so that would be the first place to look.
Thank you, I will check the plugins, but I think this is the theme, since I have same plugins on other site, and they do not generate author metadata. And I am not using Jetpack or something to “auto post” – I share directly on FB.
In functions.php, there is
if (!is_home() and !is_front_page()) {
//do not show author metadata on front page
$authorMetaGoogle = get_the_author_meta('googleplus');
if (!empty($authorMetaGoogle)) {
echo '';
}
}
May be I need to edit this or add something here. I just do not know what.
Well, of course that data is for Google to not show the Google author data on home page meta tags of your site.
One thing you can try: export your settings data, switch to default theme, do a save from a page NOT already saved to FB, see what it does. FB pulls that data from your OG tags (that is purpose), but as to how they are getting “author name” from your site vs “account logged in with” I have no idea. I thought it was impossible to share to FB without being logged into an account, where that person/account would then show as “who shared this.”
Sorry no better answer 🙂
