Title: Facebook Sharing Errors
Last modified: August 19, 2026

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# Facebook Sharing Errors

 *  Resolved [radioinsight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radioinsight/)
 * (@radioinsight)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-sharing-errors/)
 * Halfway through the day yesterday with no changes to my configuration, Facebook
   started returning links with “Checking search engine crawler” instead of the 
   post image and link. 
   I have attempted disconnecting and reconnecting with Facebook.
   Running their social debugger simply says “URL returned a bad HTTP response code.”.
   saying it could be due to a robots.txt block and to allowlist facebookexternalhit
   on your sites robots.txt config to utilize Facebook scraping. However, I do not
   have that bot blocked. Because I also have Cloudflare’s Platform Optimization
   subscription, your support bot told me to whitelist it through there which I 
   did. Yet that too did not resolve the issue. When googling “Checking Search Engine
   Crawler” I see a number of other WordPress based site spitting out that error
   on Facebook in the past 24 hours, which makes me believe this is either a Jetpack
   Social and Cloudflare conflict that is beyond my personal scope to resolve.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffacebook-sharing-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [lastsplash (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lastsplash/)
 * (@lastsplash)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-sharing-errors/#post-18997551)
 * Hi [@radioinsight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radioinsight/) –
 * You also contacted us via email on support ticket #11590333.
 * I’m closing this thread in favor of the email. We’ll help you over there.

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 * Last reply from: [lastsplash (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lastsplash/)
 * Last activity: [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-sharing-errors/#post-18997551)
 * Status: resolved