Compatibility WP 4.4 and New G+ Share

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Hey there!

Is there anybody in here upgraded their respective WordPress v 4.4 with Nespaper Theme v6.6 and went smoothly?

Also the Goggle+ share button sometimes does not catch the proper image when sharing, yes all open graph tags are in there.

Thank you and have a great day

Bests

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Google+ has problems capturing images regardless of the OG tags; usually if there are too many images “before” the main image in the post (e.g., mega menu), if the only image is a giant “outside the post” image format, and/or if the only image in post is too small (e.g., smaller than 300px).

Not much you can do about it, unfortunately.

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Thank you very much for your reply Chris, will see if I can do something about it via some middleware code. Cheers and thank you

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Hello,
You will need to use the SEO Yoast plugin and set it according to their guide here: https://yoast.com/social-media-optimization-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/#hgoog but this will only improve the chances of G+ capturing the correct images. Don’t expect a 100% fix for it as unfortunately as Chris stated above, not much can be done about it.
Thank you!

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Thank you Bogdan

There is a way but I didn’t check your code for sharing, in fact Google+ uses schema.org microdata (recomended method) will see if I can do something about it.

https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/

Thanks for reply

Regards

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Hi,

You can try an alternative method of geting it to work. Try to test this by removing this itemprop=”image” from here: http://screencast.com/t/Ua5FRoCtBKg and see how it goes.

Thanks.

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