Hello April,
Thank you for your query. We will be super-happy to help you with your concern.
That is good that you added the image in the category page in the Rank Math panel.
Perhaps the reason why it is not showing is due to your site’s caching, if your site has caching.
The browser cache option in most cache plugins like W3 Total Cache is known to not play well with Facebook’s OpenGraph detection. If you have it enabled, disable it. The option for W3 Total Cache is at WP > Performance > Browser Cache > HTTP (gzip) compression
Screenshot for reference: https://i.rankmath.com/BbaiC6
Then, clear your website and server cache (including Cloudflare – if enabled)Once you are done, you might want to test again here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Click the Scrape Again
button:
Screenshot for reference: https://i.rankmath.com/A5z7WK
If that fails, leave us your WP admin access in sensitive data field.
We hope that helps and we are here should you have any follow-up questions.
Thank you. I use WP Rocket. Are you suggesting I turn off GZIP Compression permanently?
Is there any explanation of why all of my normal pages work fine, it is only the directory pages that are not pulling the specified image?
Hello,
The gzip browser cache option in most cache plugins like W3 Total Cache is known to not play well with Facebook’s Open Graph detection:
https://rankmath.com/kb/open-graph-image-not-displaying/#num-4-6-gzip-compression
However, since you have already applied the image in Rank Math’s social media meta box, then the image should be added in the og:image
tag.
In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.