FB does not detect post image on first try

  • Resolved gstricklind

    (@gstricklind)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Chuck,

    I’m having this weird issue that I haven’t seemed to resolve myself yet. When sharing a new post with a featured image on FB, it does not show an image initially. Reloading FB then trying to share again, it then shows the featured image (or using debugger).

    I’ve read elsewhere that this is a FB bug (due to not having width & height set, but according to FB these are only optional). And, it seems if it were a bug, FB would have fixed this by now.

    I’ve updated Genesis and deactivated ALL plugins. But still the issue continues. Have you heard of this before (I didn’t come across anything related in these threads). What are your thoughts and can you advise on what I can do to further pin down this issue? Thanks!

    (I can PM the staging link if you want but I don’t want to include it here)

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/

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  • Thread Starter gstricklind

    (@gstricklind)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    And by “all plugins” I mean all but keeping your WP Facebook OG plugin active

    Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    If it’s the initial share when you’ve posted something new it has nothing to do with width/height not being declared – FB does a pretty good job of figuring that out themselves. It just means they haven’t scanned your site yet and the scraper didn’t get it initially when you posted the link. You should use the debugger to get their caching engine to work properly; I”ve had to do this for new youtube videos i’ve posted or even news posts that are new like cnn stuff or other big sites. I’ve had to run them through the debugger to get FB to pull an image at all or the right image. It’s just FB.
    Debugger is here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

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