Social media previews not updating

#61147
  • Resolved Mirela
    Rank Math pro

    Hi.

    I checked out the two other recent topics opened on this subject, but it didn’t help.

    I don’t set up a different image for Facebook and Twitter, I just expect them to pull the featured image when someone is sharing the post. If I go in the source, in the RankMath section, the og:image is no longer dynamic content, but static and defaulting to the one entered in the Titles & Meta settings for the entire site.

    As I have twitter and Facebook shares automated via IFTTT because I am currently traveling a lot, so you can see how this caused a big mess for me in a short time.

    (I was using W3 Total Cache with GZip compression way before this and it used to work even, so it must be something else.)

    Can you please help me fix this fast?

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    Hello,

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

    We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
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    Hello,

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

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    Please check the attached screenshot, I am unable to access your wp-admin. Please share your dashboard URL so we can look further into this.

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    Hello,

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

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Thank you for the follow up.

    I have checked your site and the social image setting appears fine and updates the same on Facebook debugger. Please check the screencast attached in the sensitive section and let us know if there is something we are missing.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Hi. You checked for the home page, which doesn’t have a featured image and it’s ok to pull the default one. Please try doing that for a blog post. And also check twitter, it’s not just facebook causing issues. Those still don’t pull the featured image and use the default one, which isn’t ok.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Mirela.

    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 seems to be because of the image size you are using. I added a different image size in your media library for testing. I have added a screencast in the sensitive section whereby I tested your page with your initial image then changed with my test image and you can see it reflects in the facebook debugger.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Hi,

    I’ve been using the same image size for over a year and it worked perfectly until recently. And if it’s not right, why is your plugin showing the preview as it should, then sharing it wrong?

    Also, why does this post (and the ones before it) work with the featured image (same size) when shared: https://www.the-travel-bunny.com/st-kitts-scenic-railway/

    But all the posts after that no longer pick up the featured image? I haven’t done anything different on my side.

    How can I change this to work again, without editing by hand hundreds of posts & pages in several languages? It’s horrible that this feature stopped working as it did with your plugin. And I’m guessing it’s more to image size since on some pages that works just fine, yet on newer ones it doesn’t. And there are also other threads open regarding the errors of social media sharing (one mentioning 3 different sites).

    Please help me get this to work as it did a few weeks ago with the same image sizes as before. I mean, even on your site, you don’t mention a mandatory image size, and you can say you can use smaller images, too -> https://rankmath.com/kb/meta-box-social-tab/.

    PS. Also, it seems you deactivated my social sharing plugin and left it that way 🙂

    Hi, after you guys logged in, I can no longer upload webp images. What did you change? I need that option back asap, I can’t publish today’s article otherwise.

    Hello,

    I see the issue on your site. The problem is you are adding .webp images in Post thumbnail which is not supported by Facebook. When you use webp images, Facebook will throw Unkown Image error. Rank Math plugin checks the image extension before adding it in tag and since webp is not the supported format, the plugin is using the default image from Settings. Please add an image with 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'gif', 'png' extension.

    That will fix the issue.

    I hope that helps.

    Hi. Thank you, I will do that for the featured image. But can you please edit what you changed when you logged in because ever since then I can no longer upload webp files without adding an extra function? And I don’t want to add that extra function to fix something that wasn’t supposed to be edited in the first place.

    I need to add webp for the rest of my article images directly instead of paying for my cache plugin to convert them after upload 🙂

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Mirela.

    Hi, can you please fix this? It’s something that wasn’t supposed to get changed by you.

    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 related to WP-configuration and the way to overcome it is by using a plugin or editing your wp-config file. None of this was changed during our troubleshooting process.

    Please note that by default, these: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .ico are the image file types that can be uploaded in wordpress. If you were able to upload .webp images before, it is likely there were existing customization to allow so.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    Hi. Until one of you logged in, I was ale to upload webp files directly. And the images were showing with preview & everything in my media library, too.
    That was before updating to the latest version of wp.
    Please fix what got broken when you guys logged in. I already reactivated my social sharing plugin which you guys left deactivated. 🙂

    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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