Hello
when I click the Facebook share button instead of seeing the Article title and a part of the article. I get a load of text, categories and so on:
Home United Kingdom UK News Luxury Residential Development in SalfordUnited KingdomUK NewsLuxury Residential Development in SalfordBy admin -Feb 9, 201510 SHARE Facebook Twitter Knight Knox International – leading provider of buy-to-let developments to the private investor market – has launched plan…
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How can I stop this please
If you’re posting something like a video or photo without any text on the page, put some text into the normal wordpress post “excerpt” box describing the photo or video; this would then populate the meta description tag and OG tags for FB and twitter.
Hi Chris
The posts are full article pages and The excerpt box also has text in it as well.
https://www.facebook.com/agentswall
check out the post for example: http://agentswall.com/spanish-real-estate-trends-quarterly-report/
Many thanks
Joe
You appear to be missing all the OG tags for description, title, etc.
You need to look at your page “source” for a post and note all the elements missing which are needed for sharing to FB and Twitter.
Without the proper meta data, the social media sharing just scrapes the first text on your page.
You need to use something like Yoast WordPress SEO, to setup all your social media tags!
Try using the Facebook debug tool to look at your post page as it will tell you all the data which is missing!
Yes we have done this and it says that all the data is missing. And it is picking up all the tags, pages, time date and author etc.
EuropeSpanish NewsSpanish Real Estate Trends Quarterly ReportBy admin -Feb 9, 201500 SHARE Facebook Twitter Spanish
A most unusual set of circumstances indeed. Sadly we have gone live with the site and are now totally confused with this issue which was not spotted in the development stages.
We love the new theme sooooo much but we really need to sort this issue out as we are now losing many shares and likes and interaction because of it.
Can you possible have a look at out set up or the code?
I can send you all our login details on a private message.
Best regards
Joe
Well, as I stated you need to use something like YOAST WordPress SEO plugin to enable all the missing data. This is also “suggested” in the theme docs.
The theme doesn’t manage all your SEO settings for you.
Download and install the Yoast SEO plugin, which allows you to setup all your missing info!
🙂
Hi Chris,
Will do – I will let you know how it turns out. Many thanks for the advice.
Best regards
Joe
