Title: Excerpt shows code when shared on facebook
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Excerpt shows code when shared on facebook

 *  [Inspiredbyplanetearth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspiredbyplanetearth/)
 * (@inspiredbyplanetearth)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-shows-code-when-shared-on-facebook/)
 * Hi!
    So when sharing an article from my blog on facebook, it won’t show its regular
   excerpt (or any regular content) but rather it shows code, e.g. “h3 id firstHeading
   class firstHeading lang en strong span style color…” and so on. I’m still new
   to wordpress, so forgive me if I have overlooked some basic rule, but as far 
   as I’ve searched I couldn’t find anyone else having the same problem. Any suggestions?
 * Thank you so much!

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 *  Moderator [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * (@clorith)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-shows-code-when-shared-on-facebook/#post-6126672)
 * Hi,
 * I suspect this is because the excerpt is a cutout of your primary content, and
   thus might be missing some closing HTML tags or similar (generating proper programmatic
   excerpts is a magical thing).
 * Personally I use the Yoast SEO plugin as it handles all the Open Graph codes (
   what facebook uses when your content is posted there) and makes it look all pretty
   like.

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 * [code showing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code-showing/)
 * [sharing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sharing/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-shows-code-when-shared-on-facebook/#post-6126672)
 * Status: not resolved

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