1.1.6 Breaking preview

  • Resolved ginkku

    (@ginkku)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I read about “Discord not embedding preview images the same way anymore”, but I also encountered other problems after installing 1.1.6. Using scheduled articles btw.

    1. Preview image is a tiny box.
    2. If my page is not using WordPress featured image, the preview should have SEO plugin’s default image. This feature doesn’t work anymore.
    3. The bot posts the update in time, but embedded timestamp is +3 hours wrong.
    4. The preview doesn’t use SEO optimized preview excerpts anymore, instead it finds WordPress’s own article text and includes ugly [visual composer] tags.

    Picture: https://i.imgur.com/zSvRbpW.png

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by ginkku.
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  • Plugin Author Nico

    (@nicolamustone)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi @ginkku,

    1) I’m aware of that, it will be fixed. Temporarily you can use the filter wp_discord_post_post_embed to send your image size.
    2) As you know, the embed does not expand automatically anymore, and with WordPress I’m not sure how to get the default page image if there’s no featured image. I didn’t work on any SEO plugin compatibility by default.
    3) The plugin uses the post publish date. If that is 3hrs in the past that will be picked.
    4) This looks more like a compatibility issue with Visual Composer. The code uses properly strip_shortcodes to remove all the shortcodes from the excerpt before to truncate it. I do not have the plugin to check if it removes that filter or does something else to keep the shortcodes, but I’d suggest you contact them to check on this.

    Plugin Author Nico

    (@nicolamustone)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    I’m marking this as solved since it has been a week from my last reply.

    3) The plugin uses the post publish date. If that is 3hrs in the past that will be picked.

    <- Not true at all!
    I have exactly same issue with exact same timestamp. And same time all site post date and time are correct, on site it shows exactly right time and everywhere else is right time too. Except when it posts to discord, then it adds some mystical +3 to every single post (since how to use timestamp in the plugin code is wrong). Also this extra timestamp actually is not needed at all, discord have it automatically already so why add extra another (wrong) timestamp?

    Thread Starter ginkku

    (@ginkku)

    I’d also like to add, that Discord’s own build-in link preview still shows the correct SEO excerpts. It’s only the bot that uses raw text.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by ginkku.
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