Site description and 'Post Comment' button

  • IestynR

    (@iestynr)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m having a few problems with a couple of things over at my site. The first is whenever I post a link to my site over to, for example Facebook – the description of the page, that’s shown on the Wall come out as:

    “You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <​a href=”” title=””> <​abbr title=””> <​acronym title=””> <​b> <​blockquote cite=””> <​cite> <​code> <​del datetime=””> <​em> <​i> <​q cite=””> <​strike> <​strong>”

    I’ve hidden these tags by using this CSS code: .form-allowed-tags {display: none;} – which removed it visually from my page, but they somehow come up when I, or anyone shares a page on Facebook. I’ve installed the SEO Plug-in, which should display the description I’ve added in the ‘Meta Description’ of the Page’s Plug-in box – but unfortunately, it still displays the above HTML code as the site description. Has anyone got any ideas how to get my Meta Description to show?

    Secondly, on my comment section of any Page or Post, My ‘Post Comment’ button under the comment box goes over a tick box for ‘Notify me of follow-up comments by email.’ Does anyone know how to move the ‘Notify me…’ text so that the tick box is shown?

    Thanks, and my website is: http://www.iestynroberts.com

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  • TimDesain

    (@timdesain)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-you-may-use-these-html-tags-and-attributes

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hey, unfortunately I saw this before, and my comments.php doesn’t have the HTML code added to it, or have the <?php comment_form(); ?>? code in there.

    I can’t actually physically see them on the site anymore (any page or post), so I have no idea how Facebook can fetch them when displaying a description of my page/post?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I’m not convinced that the above topic has anything to do with your issue. How are you adding these links to Facebook? Via a plugin?

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Esmi.

    My theme (PageLines – not the Pro version, just free) has the share with Facebook button enabled on the theme, along with other different networks, but using this button, and copy and paste the link from my page, onto my Status Update give the same results.

    TimDesain

    (@timdesain)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    read the topic carefully and try.

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    http://www.iestynroberts.com/photography/cymru-wales/

    This page for example. (If you have Facebook, could you copy the link, and paste it into your status, if you don’t share it with your friends, you’ll get a preview of the post, with the Tags under the header).

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    My theme (PageLines – not the Pro version, just free) has the share with Facebook button enabled on the theme

    Ah! I wonder if this is the problem? There’s certainly nothing on the source of your pages that would cause Facebook to pick up that piece of WP core output. Your meta titles & descriptions are all excellent. So it must be the data that Pagelines is sending to FB that causing the problem.

    Can you disable this functionality in Pagelines and replace it with a plugin – even temporarily?

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I’ll have a quick play around with the Facebook plug-in. See what that brings, thanks!

    Do you know anything about the ‘Post Comment’ button problem I’m having too?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Try adding:

    #submit-alt {float:none;}

    to the bottom of style.css.

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    No, that didn’t do anything unfortunately.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hmm… I can’t see that CSS in your stylesheet. And it works for me using Firebug.

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve added it in again – does it show up ok on your end now?

    It doesn’t seem to work over here – running Google Chrome os OS X.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Yes – it’s showing OK for me. Remember to press CTRL and F5 simultaneously when viewing an updated page/site. Or try emptying your browser cache. This should ensure that your web browser fetches a fresh copy of the page rather than serving up an out-dated copy from your own cache.

    Thread Starter IestynR

    (@iestynr)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hmmm, that’s odd. I’ve just tried deleted my cache on Chrome (as I don’t believe Google still haven’t added the force refresh on Chrome yet!), and still nothing. I’ve tried it in Safari, and it looks ok over there! Must be something to do with Chrome I guess?

    Oh well, thanks a lot for your help, I’ll try playing around with the Facebook Plug-in tomorrow morning.

    Thanks Esmi.

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