Chuck Reynolds
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Problem with taglines and image!You have a couple issues.
1. there is another plugin adding some tags including your Facebook App iD. It’s outputting these tags which are redundant.
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="738573826255168"/> <meta property="fb:admins" content=""/> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" /> <meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="en_US" />– You should find what plugin that is (it’s not wpseo or this one) and turn that setting off or the plugin off.
2. The app id used above (“738573826255168”) is an Application ID… In my plugin, WP FB open graph, you have that number in the Admin ID field; which is wrong. That should be in the App ID field instead as the admin id field is for a person’s Id not an app id.
You need to fix those issues and that should allow Facebook to pull the info that this plugin is outputting; which does seem correct.
And after you do make sure you use FB debugger to “Fetch new scrap information” for your homepage and post to test the new info they’ll display.
Cheers
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Inconsistency with image sharing (WP 4.0.1)First thing. You have the wrong info in your fb:admins field. You need the ID number not your name. To find that read the instructions and go here and you’ll see the ID number for the person listed there. http://graph.facebook.com/lizziepresson
Second. The post should be fine. Upon using their debugger I had to force pull a new scrape – it then pulled the right info. But it’s saying the image isn’t found – which it IS in your source, and then it’s saying the image is too small – which it is NOT – so it’s using the logo instead. This image is what the plugin is saying to use: http://workingremote.ly/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/a-chair-affair.jpg
So 1. that’s Facebook being stupid… again. and 2. If you fix the admin ID thing it may juggle it loose but… Use the debugger – it’s what they have it for. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Length of descriptionJust tested about 20 more links… FB tends to cut things off at anywhere from 159 – 163 characters – and they do cut words too and put the …
one of many examples (this one is 159 char). http://i.imgur.com/uBx1Mif.png
I’m just going to leave it for now – no reason to put more time into it than I just have 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Length of descriptionThe easy answer is to use an excerpt under 160 characters.
I guess technically FB wouldn’t mind a bigger description payload but I’ve always gone off their old docs at 160. I’ll see if I can’t find any update info on what they mind / don’t mind but with links I think they cut it off at around 150 still anyways.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] scrapper says my image cant be used??Nice. glad you got it fixed. Did look like your server was blocking it. Just safety precautions on their end but a little too tight 🙂
200×200 can work but here’s the upgraded guidelines on FB image sizes if you’re interested.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#imagesForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Facebook] How do you update to Graph API v2.0?I’ve made the pull request for them here: https://github.com/facebookarchive/wordpress/pull/538
Hopefully they’ll review, merge, and update this plugin before the sky falls 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Page without Featured pictureI’m not sure what plugins you’re using or how the theme is built but a quick way to handle that is make sure the vehicle image you want to be shared is set as the “Featured Image” in WordPress. That should work for you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Am I clue less?Once you enable the plugin you’ll see code output in your header source. Once you add either a FB admin ID or a FB app ID you’ll see more code in your header source. After that you technically don’t need to do anything.
If you provided a url I can view-source and show you what’s being output. Just right click on your site and hit “view source”. If you need to… hit CMD+F and search for “og:” (without quotes). Should see a handful in there.
Okay. You definitely have a random issue but your problem is not my plugin or anything with WordPress (probably)… you have:
1. a DNS routing problem on www.
2. a server problem
3. possibly an .htaccess redirect problem
4. something with an https certificate isn’t configured right either (using mxtoolbox.com to test)http://www.kiwiearthmother.com (note the www) initially broke when trying to load. It later loaded okay. http://kiwiearthmother.com loads fine.
I’d talk to your host and/or a developer and look at your host error_log’s. See if there’s anything in there that can shed some light on what’s going on… If it’s a DNS problem then you need to either talk to your host or your registrar (where you bought the domain).
As far as the image. This is the one being pulled for your homepage: http://kiwiearthmother.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mother-earth3-320×228.jpg
It is too small for FB as per their rules… so it’s using this one instead http://kiwiearthmother.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Profile-picture3.jpgFor the home page if you set a fallback image, that’s big enough for FB, in WPFBOGP settings, then FB will use that image for the homepage.
Single posts will look first for a featured image, and then go to images it can pull out of the content and always fallback to whatever the fallback image is in settings.
This is all described in the plugin description but FYI.Again I can’t test anything as you’re not using the plugin but what the debuger says now is fine, but with warnings – see: http://i.imgur.com/oL31IFu.png
And a single post for reference: http://i.imgur.com/w0CyMj5.png
Same thing… too small of image or none provided – even now w/ the other plugin being used.Re: “Error parsing input URL”… that’s typically a server problem but as far as I can tell at this point – you’re not getting that warning from FB anymore. You just need bigger images in your posts and then you should be fine going forward.
without a specific definition of “it caused problems” I’m afraid I don’t know what exactly to help you with or where to look for said problems.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Wrong og:imageAll three images are the image in the content itself. You can verify that with the images FB shows in their debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
It seems that image is controlled by TimThumb which pretty much makes it not an image to bots. I’m not sure how your theme works but if you upload/select an image as the “featured image” the plugin should be able to pull that for the meta – give you some more control.
Just keep checking that debug tool they provide – it helps in testing what’s going on.
According to your source you’re not using this plugin.
Hope you got your issue handled though.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] No previewsI see you disabled all open graph output… if that solves your problem. Then yay!
eh idk man. I’d have to setup QTranslate on a dev site to test it. Too hard to say what’s going on w/o being able to see it myself and look at headers and stuff. I’ll make note of it.
i’ve got a new version coming out really soon. HOPEFULLY this week but i’m leaving town in a couple days so we’ll see. It may or may not fix the issue… a couple changes were made to urls but… again… idk what the issue is w/ that plugin.
Sorry man – that’s all I can do right now. Dead tired right now and need to sleep lol.
If you want – make an issue on github and/or look at code and do a pull request if you’re a coder. github.com/chuckreynolds/WPFBOGP/tree/develop
