• Resolved jdmrsm

    (@jdmrsm)


    You say in the description: “This plugin works on Facebook, Google Plus, and Linkedin.” … it doesn’t seem to be working for me on Linkedin. I actually don’t need it for Facebook and Google+ because those two pull in the page date just fine. I just need it for Linkedin.

    Does it, in fact, work for Linkedin? If so, could you please go through the steps to make that happen?

    Thank you

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

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  • Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    Hey jdmrsm

    It does, and like any of the other networks, but depends on them handling the open graph data the way you designate it. For reference – scroll down to the “Improve content sharing with Open Graph” section on LinkedIn’s developer docs here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin

    That og:title (etc) code is exactly what this plugin outputs. If you view your page source when this plugin is activated and just do a CMD+F search for “og:” and you’ll see those tags in there.

    Now.. with that said.. Linkedin is horrible at sharing links – the worst one out of the ‘big 3’ (FB, TW, LI). So while the plugin does follow their documentation; from that point to when they process it and post it – I can’t do anything about that. Once it’s in their hands – regardless of their documentation – they handle it the way they want.
    FB is very well known for changing it constantly – even Google does this if you present them well done meta tags. This plugin was built long ago when these networks actually did honor your tags – they change constantly and show what they think is best on their network – again linkedin is horrible at this but… I built this to present the data that should be used – what they do with it after that… out of our hands.

    Hope that helps understand it all a bit 🙂 Cheers!

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