OG Image

  • Resolved libra20

    (@libra20)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I think this might be a weird WordPress glitch and I posted there. But I thought that you might have an idea as well. Here’s the description of what’s happening that I posted there.

    I notice that my revisions don’t get properly updated if I don’t click “save draft” and just rely on the auto save. This is ok if I realize it before I click publish, but after a post is published, I can’t find a way to fix it.

    What I’m trying to fix is the first photo I uploaded as the featured photo is what’s showing up on my social media shares. Even though this photo was removed many drafts ago. I forgot to click “save draft” after I changed featured photos. Though it looked fine on all the previews. I don’t know if anyone else has this issue of things not updating correctly if save draft isn’t used.

    On my social media settings using All in One SEO, I’ve tried switching to a different photo for my Twitter cards and Facebook. And even though the settings in All in One SEO show that the other photo should be used, when I post to Twitter & FB, the same old featured photo show up. Though I know it’s not simply an All in One SEO issue because I’ve had other things not update properly with the auto save until I’ve done the save draft. Since I’m now published, even though I have updated the page after switching my All in One SEO settings for the post, I don’t know how to fix it since I can’t click save draft anymore. Update doesn’t work.

    I did try to upload a custom image in the social settings and the link shows up in the field, but it still doesn’t fix the issue. I’m thinking there’s something in the WordPress code that is overriding anything except that original featured image…

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  • Michael Torbert

    (@hallsofmontezuma)

    WordPress Virtuoso

    9 years, 6 months ago

    The saving issue doesn’t have anything to do with AIOSEOP, but if you’ve set an image that isn’t showing up for Facebook or Twitter, it could just be their cache.
    https://semperplugins.com/documentation/troubleshooting-incorrect-social-meta-when-sharing-or-publishing-content/

    Thread Starter libra20

    (@libra20)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks so much for your quick response! It doesn’t make sense that the image would be in FB or Twitter’s cache. The image showing is the featured image I used when I started drafting the post a week ago (and I swapped out that image for the current one a week ago). This was well before I even published the article today. It’s still in the article, but not as the featured image.

    And I checked the source code just now and it shows the correct image is the OG image. I think I have to chalk it up to another weird WP quirk since I’ve had a couple of these that nobody could figure out. I know the “save draft” thing doesn’t make much sense, but I’ve had multiple instances where things didn’t save properly with the auto save and were fixed when I hit the “save draft” button. Maybe that’s it and maybe it’s not.

    I did just delete the image from the post. But that didn’t change anything. FB & Twitter keep showing the old image. I’ll see what happens after the cache cycles as you say. Hopefully it’ll show an image and not an error if it can’t find the old one.

    Thanks again.

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