Title: Error 403
Last modified: July 11, 2025

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# Error 403

 *  Resolved [wentzcreatives](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wentzcreatives/)
 * (@wentzcreatives)
 * [9 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-74/)
 * Hi, I’m trying to share this publishes article on Facebook page but there’s no
   preview showing up. I tried to debug by using Facebook share debugger, it says“
   Error 403: This response code could be due to a robots.txt block. Please allowlist
   facebookexternalhit on your sites robots.txt config to utilize Facebook scraping”.
   
   I was trying to search around how to fix it but couldn’t. Appreciate if anyone
   could advise me what to do to fix this, Thank you! (I’m using a paid plan with
   wordpress.com)
 * Post link: _[ redundant link deleted ]_
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ferror-403-74%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Sandeep Dahiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandeepdahiya/)
 * (@sandeepdahiya)
 * [9 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-74/#post-18551087)
 * Hi [@wentzcreatives](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wentzcreatives/)
 * I checked your page ([https://66wannarich.com/2025/07/11/practical-guide-daily-wealth-plan/](https://66wannarich.com/2025/07/11/practical-guide-daily-wealth-plan/))
   in Facebook’s Sharing Debugger, and the 403 error seems to be caused by WordPress.
   com’s firewall or bot protection blocking Facebook’s crawler (`facebookexternalhit`),
   not your robots.txt file, which looks fine.
 * Since you’re on a paid WordPress.com plan and can’t modify server-level settings
   directly, I recommend reaching out to their support team at [https://wordpress.com/support/](https://wordpress.com/support/)
   and asking them to allowlist Facebook’s crawler so link previews can load properly.
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [wentzcreatives](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wentzcreatives/)
 * (@wentzcreatives)
 * [9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-74/#post-18551360)
 * Thank you for your advise, I had contacted wordpress support and the issue has
   been resolved. Thank you!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [wentzcreatives](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wentzcreatives/)
 * Last activity: [9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-74/#post-18551360)
 * Status: resolved

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