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Definitive update on this topic!
Since I have brand new blog (2 posts!) which I setup this weekend, as a migration of an old static section of business website, to a new folder using WP and Newspaper, I was also having issue with Google+ not grabbing photo+summary, and instead only grabbing my author photo + URL or headline.
So, here’s what I did.
I switched from the full width giant photo (style 4), to style 2, with featured image shown; still same problem.
I switched “show featured image off” and *ALSO* switched off the lightbox feature since I don’t use that — remember Google doesn’t like images which are links as they by default presume them to be ads not featured photos when scraping — and then placed my featured image into both of my new posts, and resaved both.
Viola. Went to share both on Google+ and both of my posts from new blog setup dropped in instantly into G+.
example… works!
https://plus.google.com/102627062589158403110/posts/a39F9Lrpa8tI am not sure whether it’s the featured images outside of post, since I don’t have problem with that on another site with Newspaper; but I am guessing it’s the lightbox under the post settings being on by default that may be the culprit. So try that FIRST (click to off), and see what happens with your G+ shares.
See this … it didn’t seem to impact the issue,
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/duplicate-ogimage-tag-due-to-fb-video-fix-update/
but I *did* notice the problem is only on my site which uses the show featured image on, vs that being off and then manually inserting the featured image at top of the post ….
view your page source to see the duplicate og:image tags; if using YOAST SEO or similar, you will see the theme insert one above the YOAST stuff.
I am going to try changing the images on my problem blog from the auto show featured image above post, to actually putting it into the post; however, you wouldn’t presume that would be the issue…. but never know.
Hi Chrisopher,
I already updated to the latest version, still same issue. Thank you for letting me know about the header.php but to be honest I don’t know what exactly I need to remove 😀
Regarding Google+… there’s nothing more to say, I think it’s useless, just a tool for data mining and collection. Hopefully it will be closed soon, fingers crossed :))
I’m gonna try tomorrow backing up everything and switching to the default theme. Thank you once again for your help, it is very much appreciated.
Best regards,
Well, if it’s an issue with old version of theme, best bet is to install today’s update and see if it changes. Also make sure you hack the header.php file to remove the section which inserts duplicate og:image tag, as that might also be issue.
My point generally was that Google is inconsistent regardless of theme, website, or meta data on properly grabbing all the data. And may have nothing to do with the theme, which you could easily test by backing up your settings, then temporarily switching to twenty-fourteen theme, then doing a save to see difference. Simple way to debug if specific to your “site” and images, or the “theme.” 🙂
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for your reply. As far as I can see the problem occurs only with Google+(Facebook and Twitter are working perfectly fine). The issue seems to be with the featured image (if another image is inserted in the article, Google+ will grab it with no problem) and started only 1-2 weeks ago. I’ve tried to deactivate all the plugins but with no luck. I’m pretty sure that the problem lies somewhere between the latest changes to the template or/and with the latest Google+ updates.
Looking forward to an answer from one of the admins/moderators maybe they can help us more.
Kind regards,
Issues can usually be traced to one of the following:
1) robots.txt file blocking access to uploads folder or custom image folder
2) images too large for featured image; sometimes social media systems hiccup on very large images; especially if over 25kb
3) googlebot using scrape method vs meta data for image (very common); but cannot determine best image when featured image is background element such as full-width image; this is why you sometimes see author photo or local hosted ad banner as selected image; this is why “wrong image” is shown; Google is grabbing from a related image on the page, which is not the featured image. This is because the “classic” Google parser went for the first image in the post body 100% of the time and ignored the meta data which hints the right image to use. I’ve theorized that from time to time they fallback to that system and ignore all image meta data. This is still used by Google News, for example — scraping and not using the meta data pointer to image to use.
4) google image bank overloaded; deferred; try again next day or later
5) google having hiccups parsing page unrelated to theme; issue with only grabbing photo and URL; or no image at all, or wrong image
6) facebook image grabber sometimes blocked due to their annoying ping of your web server to do geolocation and many systems like CSF will start blocking the IPs that Facebook uses, hence why you get no populated elements at all on sharing to FB; host / server needs to clear temp firewall blocks to clear up
Be aware Google has been doing massive changes to their network in August, due to phasing out author image and G+ data in SERPS, finally updating some things like the Google alerts page which was 5 years old, now updated; and long line of things changing post Panda 4.0 and Google changing their priorities for G+. How many G+ hangouts have you heard about lately? (None.)
We deal with couple dozen websites, mostly news portals updated daily with image and original news items, and run into all sorts of bizarro things with G+ lately. This usually clears up. Note that I more often see the problem with WordPress sites than non-WP sites, which is an indication there is some inherent issue which is unrelated to any specific theme, but not quite sure what it is.
There are so many plugins over @ wordpress that can do this…just go to wordpress site and put in the search “social share” and you see a lot show up.
Are you can buy this plugin that i’m using from “codecanyon” http://codecanyon.net/item/ultimate-social-deux/6556073
I’m not having these issues,so it’s not a theme issue..when i share a post to my google page it share perfect…
Me too!
Hi guys,
I have a strange problem with Google+ starting last week. Every single time I am sharing/posting an article I get the same thumbnail/image. I have attached a screenshot maybe someone knows how to fix it. Thank you.
Hi,
Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have a feature like that. You could try to search and use a plugin to achieve that, like https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ or similar.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
Have a nice day!
How can I have sticky social sharing and follow buttons just below sticky navigation on all the pages of the blog.
Here is the example: http://www.storypick.com/gold-digger-prank-india/
Here is a screenshot: http://www.screencast.com/t/sjgfnC4i
Hi, folks
minor issue with latest version of theme; where a duplicate open graph image tag is being inserted into the head, which should not be there when using a separate SEO plugin.
In header.php, lines 17-26 seem to be the culprit, and are not needed for those running something like YOAST SEO, which already inserts og:image tag:
//facebook sharing fix for videos, we add the custom meta data
if (is_single()) {
global $post;
if (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
$td_image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' );
if (!empty($td_image[0])) {
echo '<meta property="og:image" content="' . $td_image[0] . '" />';
}
}
}This is the only code I could find with quick search which may be the culprit of adding duplicate og:image tag above the YOAST SEO (or other) plugin section. I would presume the query is dropping in an echo, regardless of whether it’s a video or not (in my case no videos at this time).
I will go so far as call this a bug, since it’s not an optional choice. I am going to try removing that block and see if it fixes issue. More later.
Having the same kind of problem since the 4.2.1 update, Chris. Mainly on Google+ sharing. Using Yoast and Easy Social Share Buttons from Code Canyon the image attached to the share is my logo, not the featured image. All posts get a featured image and this started happening immediately following the latest theme update.
Hello Crew,
for some days my articles messed up at sharing on facebook 🙁
“…of type ‘website’ is invalid because a required property ‘og:title’ of type ‘string’ was not provided.”
– only the fuzzbuzz.de URL is shown but no META DATA
Iam Using the Facebook debugger and disabled all plugins (YOAST SEO, JETPACL etc). But the data doesnt get fetched corractly.
Anyone could help me? Bug at Version: 4.2.14.2.1?
http://www.fuzzbuzz.de
cheers my friends
Daniel
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for sharing, glad you figured it out!
May I add that you could also modify the top and bottom padding to achieve this, also the line-height for the block titles could also be modified from theme panel then you could use the custom css to adjust the block title container if the theme panel setting doesn’t do it.
.td_block_wrap .block-title a, .td_block_wrap .block-title span, .td_block_wrap .block-title label {
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
line-height: 24px;
}Thanks
I don’t have any screenshot sharing website account. I’ll upload them on wordpress so save it as soon as you can, I’ll delete them.
http://ss-img.styzic.com/2014/08/Capture.png
http://ss-img.styzic.com/2014/08/Capturee.png
Hi,
Please try adding an “excerpt” also on the page http://screencast.com/t/19YNdNb1t and check if it’s getting the excerpt on your twitter sharing description instead of short-codes.
Should work now, I have checked your site and seems liker the description it’s set now: http://screencast.com/t/7FE2g5yPn
Hope this helps!
Thanks
@Shashank I can see that you’re using the Shareoholic plugin. Can you please check if it includes sharing button for Reddit and Pocket?
Thanks!
How about a sharing like the one I use on my site: http://www.styzic.com/internet/humor/samsung-galaxy-s5-ice-bucket-challenge/537/
@Lucian, forget it. I have created one for myself. @Christopher, would love to hear your comments on the sharing buttons: http://gdgtarena.com/2014/08/22/samsung-galaxy-s5-takes-als-ice-bucket-challenge-dares-big-boys/
Thank you Christopher! I’m still struggling getting it to work on Twitter, and yet to hear from support. 🙁
