Just installed the theme, everything was fine but i noticed something very strange. Some users can’t access the site when they click at links posted at my Facebook Page. I’ve noticed that the majority of them are using Android Phones. Since 80% of My traffic comes from Facebook and mobile, i deactivated the theme
Why would the theme have anything to do with URLs posted on Facebook ?
The theme has nothing to do with how URLs are parsed. Meaning, if the URL you share to FB is correct and actually works, and somebody clicks that link – it will work if the site is accessible.
That is handled by your DNS, web server, and the ISP being able to resolve the DNS pointing at the IP where your website is hosted.
It might be a setting you have for Android users, or it may be that the caching of your CSS is mismatched on server and some android users or chrome users where chrome caches websites, is loading old CSS and not the new CSS and page will not load properly.
In those cases you need to clear server cache quite completely, where applicable; and a visitor who has a browser which doesn’t reload the CSS properly would need to hit “refresh” in their mobile browser to get the new CSS.
Sometimes you can force this by setting a very short TTL just for the CSS, like one hour, and let it be that way for a week — bad for pagespeed, but can “force” some browsers to make sure they only see new site CSS.
Might not be your issues; just a thought 🙂
Hi,
I’m not sure what your issue is regarding the theme as I have checked your site and your articles can be shared on facebook(I see that you have changed the theme) – http://screencast.com/t/QSCx0lpX Also I have share an article from your site and accessed the link and did not found any issues.
Do you mean that this happens only when Newspaper theme is active when try to access your link from facebook?
Thanks!
