{"id":18997456,"date":"2026-08-19T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/facebook-sharing-errors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:26:32","slug":"facebook-sharing-errors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/facebook-sharing-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sharing Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halfway through the day yesterday with no changes to my configuration, Facebook started returning links with &#8220;Checking search engine crawler&#8221; instead of the post image and link. <br \/><br \/>I have attempted disconnecting and reconnecting with Facebook. Running their social debugger simply says &#8220;URL returned a bad HTTP response code.&#8221;. 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. <br \/><br \/>Because I also have Cloudflare&#8217;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 &#8220;Checking Search Engine Crawler&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18997456","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18997456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18997456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18997456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}