Share on Facebook not working properly

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I noticed an issue with this on a site a week or so ago, and have confirmed this plugin is the culprit by deactivating it. I’d like to reactivate!

I’m only using the icons to link out to facebook, etc. and not using the sharing buttons for posts, but the plugin is writing in the facebook open graph tags anyway. I’m handling those with Yoast.

As a result, the open graph tags are written twice, causing errors. For example the facebook open graph object debugger reports additional instances of og:url.

Additionally, the text the facebook scraper picks up from this plugin’s open graph tags is a long string without spaces that includes link information directly from the content. It looks like all the spaces and html are stripped out.

Yoast grabs the custom excerpt that I prefer for the description, but the og:description tag is duplicated by this plugin, facebook is using it instead.

I like your plugin (thanks for your hard work!), but I think the open graph tags should only be written/output if someone is using the share buttons for the posts. If you add a conditional to that effect, that should cure the duplicate tag issues.

Thank you Johnny, let us look into it.

Ok, should be fixed in new plugin version, we’ll upload it next week.

FYI, I have a similar problem. When I either share or paste a page to Facebook the snippet eliminates the spaces between the words, so it looks like gobbledygook. This was not happening a week or so ago. By process of elimination, I believe the problem is in the plugin. If I am not mistaken, I approved a routine update of it within the same time period. My site is osburnt.com.

Thanks jposburn, as mentioned above it should be fixed in the version we’ll upload early next week.

This should be fixed with the latest version. Could you please check?

I just updated the plugin and tried FB share option and the first two lines appear correctly now (as the blog post text) and then change to something similar to what was happening before at the end of the second preview line and onto the third line. Now, there are spaces between words and characters, whereas before there wasn’t.

Ok, so which problems remain exactly? Do you have a screenshot for me so that I can understand it better? Please send it to support at ultimatelysocial dot com.

It works much better. I found I needed to generate new scrapes using Facebook debugger in the case of shares or pastes I had tried before and held off making because of the problem.

Two problems remain. (1) Punctuation marks are eliminated, and (2) if there are embedded links in the scraped text, the url is scraped instead of the word.

Much happier for now, as I feel I can at least share or paste links.

Can’t see a way of attaching a screenshot …

Please send the screenshots to “support at ultimatelysocial dot com”

Have you been successful in resolving the Facebook share problem? Thanks again for your help.

Did you send us your screenshots?

Hello – and thank you for this free plugin! I’m having an issue, in that the Facebook, Google +, Linkedin, and Twitter links do not work. I have it set to “share” the page with those sites, but I just get a blank bubble when I click on the share icons. Please advise how to fix? My site is here: https://peabay.cloudaccess.host/ Thank you!

Hi @orlisgal, please post different issues in different threads. Also, I’m not sure what your issue is, when I move over the icons it displays fine: https://screencast.com/t/hoCizLNR