Pinterest not showing title of post

Hi all,

Got a problem. Although pinterest is finding the picture through OG it is not finding the title to place in the description portion of the pin.

Any suggestions or fixes?

Try validating your site with your pinterest account. That really helped with our main site, but remember sometimes they get overloaded… The og tags provide hinting but no guarantee they will always capture the data. Welcome to social media!

Actually, the site had been verified for a long time. I recently switched it to this theme. So that wasn’t the issue.

I replaced the share code in the php for template 11 since that is the one I use for all my posts, with the sharify plugin placing its php code in the same position. It solved the problem. So I think this is probably a bug in the theme share plugin.

Thank you for responding back. I am not a coder so I am not sure where to put that code. I can find basic stuff but not sure where to place it in the single.php and if there are mods for specific templates.

I do think it is good that you are placing it on the suggestion list. Every Pinterest share button I have used in the last 4 years, has placed the title of the post in the description. I am satisfied with the solution I came up with but I do think it would serve your customers well to add this feature to the Pinterest share button. It also would be nice to have a few additional sharing options like reddit, stumbleupon, linkedin ect.

For our system we use the title in the “title” and then Pinterest now auto-populates the description data on Pinterest with the OG tag for description, not title. This is how the 2015 API is setup. It’s *not* normal to have the story title populate the “description” block, as that duplicates the “title” block. So you may wish to double check that.

Well all I know is that the picture was all that was showing. You had to manually add any other details. I used the title for the description. Like I said, I am not a coder, but every Pinterest sharing plugin I have used has always put the title in the description under the picture.

Unfortunately my screenshot program doesn’t take shots of popups or I would show you what I am talking about, however it is the text section directly under the picture.

Well …. there is the “title” shown under an image when looking at the “all items” view, then there is the full view when you click on the picture where it will show TITLE and DESCRIPTION (e.g., the description from your OG tag called “description”) — the element under the photo in the all pix view on Pinterest is in fact the “title” and NOT the “description” … meaning, Pinterest pulls the “Title” from the OG “title” tag and shows that under the photo; when you go to full view there is both the title AND the description unless Pinterest having hiccups and not grabbing either. Not often, but they should generally always get the TITLE but sometimes miss the description — sometimes both. I then have to manually “edit” the pin from the full pin view, to add missing data.

This is how Pinterest works — it “scrapes” your OG tag data, but sometimes is — again — overloaded, and times out and may capture nothing except photo — nothing YOU can do to make this work 100% of the time. Period. Full stop.

Having proper OG tags for title and description is the proper methodology to — again — HINT the data for Pinterest to pull.

You’re not paying them to grab your data, so they do what they do. The theme, share button, etc. cannot “force” Pinterest to do anything.

Hope that helps.

Please understand, I am not complaining or telling you that you are wrong. I have no clue how Pinterest works. I am sharing with you that when using the theme sharing feature, Pinterest only grabs the image on my site. When I replace the theme sharing feature with sharify, or Mashshare, it work like expected. Well almost, Mashshare is pulling up every image to choose from except the featured image. My open graph meta tags are parsed correctly according to Facebook, so I doubt it is a meta tag problem.

Anyways my friends, I have let you know the issue. I don’t have time to continue working on this. My fix worked.