Social media preview not working

#60307
  • Resolved Ed Goldswain
    Rank Math free

    Hi, I switched to rankmath for a few months ago and love it. One issue I’m currently seeing is that when I share URLs on social to the social preview function is not working (no image or meta data).

    When I try the facebook url debugger, the error message is: Curl error: 61 (BAD_CONTENT_ENCODING)

    I’ve tried disabling the GZip compression and clearing the cache, but this has not worked. Any ideas on how to resolve?

    Cheers,
    Ed

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Ed Goldswain.
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  • Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

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

    I have just checked it but now it seems to be working, maybe it was just a temporal issue in the server or even on Facebook. Could you check it?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Hi Alberto, I’m afraid the feature is still not working for me (and hasn’t for weeks, in fact I’m not sure it ever has since I started using rankmath). Nor has it been working for my wife, or anyone else who’s tried to share any posts from this site, or another site I’m using rank math on.

    Hello,

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

    The issue you are facing is pretty common with W3 Total Cache users. The Gzip compression option is causing this issue so you must disable it from W3 Total Cache.

    After that, just clear the cache and test it again. If the issue persists please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    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,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    I am also looking forward to a fix. It comes and goes in my case, but since 5 June it hasn’t been showing the previews, just the basic landscape image.

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.


    @Ed
    Goldswain, I was able to access your site. I cleared your cache and had the debugger scrape your URL again. I have attached a screencast of your site test, you have not set a social preview image so the link is picking up your page featured image.


    @Mirela
    could you please try the same. if the issue is still there, please share some affected URLs with so we can check from our end.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Thanks for the update Michael. I’ve just tried posting that same link onto facebook, and none of the info or the featured image is pulled through to the post. Not sure how to upload an image here I’m afraid…

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    I am trying to log in and continue checking it but it seems the login credentials don’t work anymore, could you check it?

    Looking forward to help you.

    Hi. I tried what you said also, but it’s not working 🙁

    Hello,

    Thank you for for the follow up.

    The issue seems to be related to smush plugin. You can test this by disabling the plugin and checking if the image shows as expected.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Bingo – seems to be working fine now. I appreciate you guys getting to the bottom of it!

    Cheers,
    Ed

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    I’ve just looked at a second site of mine that had the same issue with RankMath – data/image not pulling through to social previews, and it doesn’t use Smush. I have deactivated all plugins except RankMath, and the issue still occurs. I’d added a sample URL from this site in the sensitive data.

    Update. Social media preview is now no longer working, despite Smush being deactivated… which is weird, as deactivating Smush 24 hours ago seemed to fix the issue.

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Could you share updated credentials for both websites so we can log in there and try to find a common issue to solve the problem?

    Looking forward to help 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.

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