Publicize and Custom Post Types

Resolved Readie21
(@readie21)

8 years, 5 months ago

Hi,
I use a lot of the Jetpack features on our website http://www.pewseyvaleridigcentre.com but one thing that I would really like support for is for new events posted on the website using “The events calendar” plugin to be posted to facebook and other social sites automatically as the rest of my posts are.
I have found the following forum entry on their support pages;
https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/jetpack-how-to-use-publicize-with-your-custom-post-types/
is it still possible to get jetpack to share custom post types in any of the ways described?
I believe the one I particularly want to share are “tribe_events”
if anyone has experience with getting this working I would really appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Sam

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Plugin Contributor Richard Archambault
(@richardmtl)

8 years, 5 months ago

Hi!

That method will absolutely work. See here:

https://jetpack.com/support/publicize/#custom-post-types

The 1st example is the one to follow, but replace product with tribe_events. Add the relevant code to your site by using this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

Let me know how it goes!
Thread Starter Readie21
(@readie21)

8 years, 5 months ago
Hi Richard,
That worked brilliantly, Thank you very much.
While we are on the topic do you know why Facebook posts don’t share with the title or the featured image, Twitter posts work great just not the ones on Facebook regardless of whether from a standard post or a tribe_events post.

For Example:
Here is a standard post shared through Jetpack;
http://www.pewseyvaleridingcentre.com/pvrc/pony-club-christmas-party-tuesday-12th-december-4-30pm-to-6pm/

Here is the Twitter post looking brilliant to catch attention to the post
https://twitter.com/P_V_R_C/status/933354443109781504

And here is the facebook post looking a bit drab without a title or image?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1928839360464732&id=206418656040153

Thanks for all your help,
Sam
- This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Readie21.
Plugin Contributor Richard Archambault
(@richardmtl)

8 years, 5 months ago

For that post, I checked it in Facebook’s debug tool:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewseyvaleridingcentre.com%2Fpvrc%2Fpony-club-christmas-party-tuesday-12th-december-4-30pm-to-6pm%2F

As you can see, it was scraped by Facebook on November 22, and it had some errors at the time. Is it possible that Jetpack wasn’t active then, or that you had some other plugins active which might have stopped Jetpack from outputting its OG tags? I ask because Facebook is complaining about some missing tags but I definitely see them in your site. Here’s what I suggest: on that Facebook page I linked to, hit the “Fetch new scrape information” button. I didn’t do it for you because I want you to see the current errors first. I expect that there will be no errors on a new scrape, because in the site’s source I see all the expected tags. Something in your site likely changed between November 22 and today.

If you have other posts that also don’t look good on Facebook, you can do the same thing: stick the post URL in the Facebook debug tool, and hit “Fetch New…”.

If you continue to have problems with newer posts published from now on, now that I’ve verified that Jetpack is outputting the proper OG tags, let me know!

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