Images and Descriptions not showing on facebook sharing links.

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  • Resolved Taylor

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    Hello, please assist, I have no images or descriptions showing when posting a link to facebook.

    I have set up and followed the guides on how to add images on the social tab but it still doesn’t do anything

    Evidently this is very important!

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  • Taylor

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    If it helps, the website is http://www.crystalife.co.uk

    This is a link im trying to share, but none of the pages show any descriptions or images at all not even the home page!

    https://www.crystalife.co.uk/crystals-for-anxiety/

    Souvik

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    Same problem.

    Go to:- https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

    Paste the URL of your post and click “Debug”. After doing it click “Scrape Again”

    And check your Thumbnail and description.

    If it don’t show your image and thumbnail and description. Click “Scrape Again” and check. Continue this process whenever your Thumbnail And Description show.

    If It shows, Copy your post URL and Paste the URL on your facebook page.

    I only “Scrape Again” 5 times and it works, but on my case description shows on debug page but don’t show my facebook page.

    I think it will help you. If so don’t forget to reply me.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Souvik.
    Taylor

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    No this doesn’t help at all, It just shows me that the OG items are missing.

    The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
    Missing Properties
    The following required properties are missing: og:url, og:type, og:title, og:image, og:description, fb:app_id

    Michael Davis

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    There are a few reasons for the Facebook (or any other social network like WhatsApp) not picking your images and other social tags. We will list them below so you can check which one applies in your case:

    1. First and foremost, you must check the page source of the URL in question. Search for the og:image tag like in this Video:
    https://i.rankmath.com/aJCccE

    If the og:image tag is not found, that means Rank Math is either disabled or not able to print your social tags. Once done checking if Rank Math is enabled, you must check why it isn’t able to print social content by following this troubleshooting guide:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

    Make sure to follow all the instructions carefully.

    2. Assuming the og:image tag was found in step 1, we can proceed to find the issue.

    Scenario 1: You are using minification on your website and your cache plugin is inputting too much inline CSS into your page source that your OpenGraph tags are pushed way too down your page’s source:
    turn off minification

    If this is the cache, you must move your inline CSS to a file because Facebook and other social networks will only look for OpenGraph tags in the first 60kbs of your page’s source. If they don’t find it, they will assume you haven’t added them. They don’t want to waste their resources crawling huge pages looking for OpenGraph tags.

    Scenario 2: The gain 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
    w3 total turn off gzip compression

    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:
    scarpe again facebook debug tool

    You should now see the OpenGraph tags update including the image.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Thank you.

    RankBot

    4 years, 2 months ago

    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.

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