Facebook LIKE/SHARE functions are generally not working on my wordpress blog. I cannot LIKE or SHARE any new posts, but oddly if I have already LIKED a page, the SHARE function works fine.
The problem with SHARE is that the normal sharing window pops up, but there is no metadata populated in it. I've looked at the metadata in my blog posts and as best I can tell it is populated correctly by Wordpress. Additionally, I cannot find any differences in the metadata or code between posts that I have previously LIKED and ones that I have have not.
I've tried running the FB debugger/linter for a number of posts on my site and each one returns the message:
Error Linting URL: An internal error occurred while linting the URL.
I've tried googling this error, but cannot find any useful advice on what might be causing it.
Here is a sample post for people to examine this problem:
http://erb.kingdomnow.org/michael-pollan-talks-about-his-new-book-cooked-video/
Thanks...
You should use Open Graph tags (see "Use proper Open Graph tags and large images to generate great previews" and "Using Self-Hosted Objects") in the header of your webpages to help Facebook determine what metadata needs to be shared.
Since you are using WordPress, you could either edit the template file in your theme that defines page headers (normally header.php) or use Facebook's official plugin.
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As per the title, I'm having trouble getting facebook to pick up my microdata information on my website. I've published both as JSON+LD and OpenGraph, but facebook pixel refuses to read it.
I've tried to change multiple times how I format the information, without getting anywhere and checking that the crawler is indeed able to reach the page.
Weirdly the microdata debugger doesn't process my tags
https://business.facebook.com/ads/microdata/debug?url=https%3A%2F%2Foiritaly.it%2Fit%2Fantica-murrina-venezia%2Fbracciale%2Fdonna%2Fbr263a00%2F
While the sharing debugger seems to pick them with no problem
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Foiritaly.it%2Fit%2Fantica-murrina-venezia%2Fbracciale%2Fdonna%2Fbr263a00%2F
Google Rich Result debugger also is able to pick it up with no problem https://search.google.com/test/rich-results
This is the page I've been using as an example, but the problem is present in every product page
https://oiritaly.it/it/antica-murrina-venezia/bracciale/donna/br263a00/
Any idea on what my I been missing?
Right now the pixel feed isn't picking up this information
Thanks
I have created my website using wordpress 3.4.1 and, I tried sharing my webpage in facebook. I do not get any thumbnail or the basic blog description in the facebook post. Instead I get "No Title". I know this question has been asked a number of times in wordpress forums. But, most of them are leading to dead ends. Can some one help me in this regard.
PS: I tried using the facebook debugger (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) I get the following
Error Parsing URL: Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.
You need to add OpenGraph tags to your page, or even easier, finf a WordPress plugin to do it for you. Run the page through the debugger again and the issues should be fixed.
Just like what Niraj said you need to make sure you have the open graph meta tags on your blog. Here is a plugin which will add them http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-open-graph-meta/.
I created a Facebook OpenGraph App which was integrated with my website http://liveofofo.com everything worked fine but the problem is that not every read action triggers a post to timeline, as a matter of fact, it may not work in days meanwhile, I have the same Opengraph plugin and settings on another site (ghanamovie.org) and it works perfectly, all read actions triggers a post to timeline
I have done a lot of troubleshooting but I still can't get what exactly the problem is, I'll appreciate any help suggestion.
I took a quick look at the source code for the first article on the page.
The Open Graph meta tags are repeated several times on the page (and are not in the <head> section of the file).
Take a good look at the structure of your code and use the Debugger to see if Facebook approves of your syntax.
If there is a problem when you are posting the Open Graph action, log the error message. It will probably tell you why the post failed.
I've been running a blog for years now, and sharing blog posts (with the correct thumbnail, title and description) on Facebook always worked fine. Last week however, when sharing new blog posts, all the meta data was obviously missing - Facebook didn't even pick up the title of the page. When debugging the new blog posts, I get:
Response Code : 503
Missing Required Property: The og:url property is required, but not present.
Missing Required Property: The og:type property is required, but not present.
Missing Required Property: The og:title property is required, but not present.
-for http://www.discodemons.net/2012/02/16/moullinex-peaches-maniac/
When debugging old posts (and by old I mean posts published before that day when Facebook suddenly decided to stop reading meta data from my site), everything's there, I can share the link with picture, thumbnail and description.
There are two things troubling me:
1) I have all important meta tags explicitly specified in my header and my functions.php - when viewing the source code for the blog posts (see for yourself here: http://www.discodemons.net/2012/02/16/moullinex-peaches-maniac/
) , everything's there. I didn't change anything on my blog for weeks (or maybe months), and yet, from one day to another, I can't share my links on Facebook correctly anymore - even though all the required meta data is there.
2) Facebook is able to pull title, image etc. from even the most simple sites, that don't have any meta data included. I've tried and removed all the meta data from the header and functions.php, and yet facebook couldn't pull any information from my site?!
I've tried disabling all comments, tested some WP plugins that put the correct meta data in your source code, disabled them again, even removed all FB-related plugins such as like/sharing button etc. Any help on this much appreciated, I haven't got a clue how I could possibly fix this!
It seems as though your WP server is returning a 503 server error for all scrapes from Facebook. It may be that this is a security feature you enabled recently, or a plugin that attempts to serve different content to Facebook for the purposes of scraping.
The Documentation from facebook isn't understandable, atleast for me.
I have never worked before with facebook and had a basic requirement of putting a like button on Product pages.
So yesterday, I added the OpenGraph meta tags and like button to my Product pages as stated in this documentation, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/. I also created an app, as the document stated that it has extended the basic meta data to add a required field to connect your webpage with Facebook: fb:app_id.
The like button has been set but i have few queries which are as following :-
For some pages, the like button doesn't read the og tags. Rather than publishing the whole thing in a story manner by reading og tags, it just shows a link. During googling, I read it happens because of facebook caching and since, I shared the link on facebook before putting the meta-tags, this is happening. So, Is there any way that I can direct facebook to reset all the caching for my pages or scraping that it has done earlier.
Though I have created the App, I actually have no idea what to do with it. Why is it needed and what matters it can help me with.
I tested one of my URLs here: Facebook Linter but it shows some error and stuff which i can't understand. Below is the image. Please tell if I have done anything wrong and why it's showing these errors
Documentation for OpenGraph on Facebook containing outdated information about pre-defined types, see OpenGraph Types. You probably need to define your custom Object Type "Product" in for your Application/Site using Developer Application in Open Graph settings.
You may want to read Documentation for OpenGraph beta too.
Update:
There is a similar question about exactly this og:type: Opengraph meta tag og:type set to “product” errors (like button & URL linter/debug)