Facebook Description

Can you provide with an example URL?
The plugin only strips html tags and shortcodes. I does not strip punctuation.

You can use the post/page/cpt excerpt to provide a different og:description. The plugin goes there first.

Here’s the URL of the page I’m trying to put in a Facebook status:
https://judygerlach.com/stardust-and-paper-moons/

I’m relatively new to WordPress… how do I use post/page/cpt excerpt to provide a different og:description? Could you give me more details on how to do that? Or perhaps help me figure out why the plugin is stripping out the punctuation.

OK I think I solved everything. I had to install a plugin so the excerpt field would show up on pages. There was no punctuation problem; your plugin was grabbing title-like info that had no punctuation.

“OK I think I solved everything. I had to install a plugin so the excerpt field would show up on pages.”

Yo DO NOT need a plugin to fill up the excerpt. (Maybe to show it on the page but not to use it on wp-admin)
Just go to your post/page/cpt edit page, on the top click on “Screen options” and activate “Excerpt”.

I’m using WordPress 3.9 and the option to activate “Excerpt” does not exist in the screen options of pages; only posts. However, once I installed the page-excerpt.1.3 plugin, the activate option showed up on pages.

“I’m using WordPress 3.9”
Why?

“the option to activate “Excerpt” does not exist in the screen options of pages; only posts”
You’re right. We’ll force excerpt support on pages on our next version.

I’m having a similar issue, however I am using a custom theme with all homepage elements done under the main_index.php rather than a normal Page.

How can I go about adding an excerpt to this?

Thanks.