Length of description

  • Resolved JudithHoejen

    (@judithhoejen)


    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I like this plugin, but I noticed that the description is not showing nicely. The excerpt length is cutting of the last letters in the last word, meaning it will look strange when showing.
    As an example it is showing “….ext” instead of “…extra”. Is it possible to adjust the length of the description showing when sharing a post? or at least get the word devided so the end letters are not just cut of?

    Hope you can help.

    Best regards
    Judith

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

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  • Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    9 years ago

    The easy answer is to use an excerpt under 160 characters.
    I guess technically FB wouldn’t mind a bigger description payload but I’ve always gone off their old docs at 160. I’ll see if I can’t find any update info on what they mind / don’t mind but with links I think they cut it off at around 150 still anyways.

    Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    9 years ago

    Just tested about 20 more links… FB tends to cut things off at anywhere from 159 – 163 characters – and they do cut words too and put the …

    one of many examples (this one is 159 char). http://i.imgur.com/uBx1Mif.png

    I’m just going to leave it for now – no reason to put more time into it than I just have 🙂

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