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1. J. K.
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Hi there,

   Love the plugin but there's one thing I hope can be fixed:
   When I post on my wp blog and its sent to my fb page it doesn't translate the special characters very well, resulting in something like:

   Title & Title – Title
   <p>Post with visible HTML tags

   Can this be fixed?
   Thanks!

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/

2. pamelaz22us
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Ditto that problem here.

   Looks to be the html associated with the time line entry showing in the post? Possibly I did something wrong in the setup of open graph?

   See it here:
   https://www.facebook.com/Torchbabe

   Any plans for a fix on this?

   Also, secondary issue, the photo from my Etsy sidebar widget is showing up in my facebook post. Not a huge problem for me but it does seem rather random.

   Thanks!

3. pamelaz22us
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Testing this more and it seems what I am getting on the FB page isn't the time line entry but a duplicate of the what I put in the content box but with mark-up.

   https://www.facebook.com/Torchbabe

   So my fb page entry looks like this:

   <p> Test 4 post content. </p>

   Test 4 post content.

   Also, I am getting an entry on my personal FB account time line, even though 'The post to author's timeline box is not checked'.

   Doesn't appear I can edit the post to FB either to get rid of the markup junk.

   Can somebody fix this? I can opt out on some of the fancier features but the duplication is a deal breaker :-(

   Thanks for any fix offered.

4. jaytarbox
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   I'm seeing the same thing happen at the top of posts to Facebook.
   for example:

   &Nbsp; As I prepare for

   There is space at the top of the post, hence the &Nbsp that does exist in the code. But it shouldn't be showing up in Facebook.

5. Ray Monohan
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Bump. Happening to me to on http://www.facebook.com/northwestsportsbeat

6. Akhil R S
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   I do had the same issue, As a quick solution i used the fb_strip_and_format_desc() function to trim the html characters.

   https://www.facebook.com/keralathanima

   Edit fb-social-publisher.php file goto line 232, use fb_strip_and_format_desc() in both name and caption array values like below
   

   $args = array('access_token' => $fan_page_info[0][3],
           'from' => $fan_page_info[0][2],
           'link' => apply_filters( 'rel_canonical', get_permalink()),
           'picture' => $post_thumbnail_url,
           'name' => fb_strip_and_format_desc(get_the_title()),
           'caption' => fb_strip_and_format_desc(apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() )),
           'description' => fb_strip_and_format_desc( $post ),
           'message' => $fan_page_message,
         );

   Hope this will help to fix the issue.Thanks

7. J. K.
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Hi Akhill,
   Thanks for the code, do you paste it in, or replace lines 232-240 with your code?
   Anyway, I tried both but it didn't really change anything, my test turned out like this:

   FB 0 Twitter test 2
   <p>Excuses we moeten nog iets testen voor facebook & twitter

   So the only place where a special character seemed to be displayed correctly is the ampersand at the end...

8. Akhil R S
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Hi J.K

   I used the plugin function fb_strip_and_format_desc in name and caption values to clear the html characters, and its working fine for me. You can check my page here : https://www.facebook.com/keralathanima.

   Can you paste the changed code here.

9. rubious
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   I have this same problem, and tried the same fix but there is one additional problem - characters such as apostrophes an ellipsis are showing up as unicode instead of plain text, so:

   Here's an example

   Shows as:

   Here’s an example

   This looks really bad, is there a fix for this too?

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