Facebook Sharing not display proper preview. Shows something else instead

  • Resolved Ken Wong

    (@ken-wong)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    Need some technical help on this issue. Usually from any Blog Post that we have in Word Press, by clicking the Facebook share button, a proper preview of the post content would be shown. Instead I have got the follow preview
    “Ken Can Travel – Coming Soon
    This page is used to test the proper operation of your recent MOJO
    Marketplace installation of WordPress! If you read this post it means your
    installation was successful!”

    At the advice of the Bluehost helpdesk, I deactivated MOJO, but it didn’t help. The main Cores were also re-installed but didn’t help. I have subsequently deleted this Plugin but problem remains.

    I have checked the other Sharing buttons like Twitter, Google+, Tumblr … they are all working except Facebook.

    Could anyone help?

    Regards,
    Ken Wong

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  • Richard Aber

    (@richaber)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Facebook does cache previews, so it could be that they accessed the URL in question once, cached what they found, and just haven’t cleared out the old cached preview since.

    You can try to force clear an old cached Facebook preview with the Facebook Debugger tool at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    Enter the URL in question into the text field, then click the “Debug” button.
    After the information has been retrieved, press the “Fetch new scrape information” button that now appears below the text field.

    See if that clears it up for you.

    Thread Starter Ken Wong

    (@ken-wong)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the advice Richard.

    I have tried it. For a moment i thought that it didn’t work. But it did!
    Apparently MOJO modified the Raw Tags resulting in the issue of an old cached preview that didn’t refresh.

    I have use the Debug program to check through all my pages and updated it the way you mentioned. It’s all now smooth and running like a well-oiled engine.

    Thank you very much Richard!

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