Facebook OG image not set on password protected post

Hi,

Can you confirm if you have the latest version of Yoast SEO for WordPress v16.1.1 and could you let us know how you’ve set up the blog post to be password protected? Are you using any sort of plugin to set a password for that particular post?

We do know that there should be a minimum output, but in general, for password-protected posts, it should just be the title and meta description as per this GitHub issue.

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your help with this. Yes I am using the latest version of Yoast Version 16.1.1. I am just password protecting it with the default WordPress functionality – by setting the visibility of the post to password protected. No other plugins are used for that functionality.

I do understand not wanting to scrape a protected post’s content for images (which was the issue in the GitHub post as I understand it). However, if the user has explicitly set data for Facebook on that post I would expect that to be displayed. The only reason to put any content in those fields is if we want it shared to Facebook – there’s really no good reason for me to manually fill those fields with anything proprietary. Even defaulting to the generic content from the main Yoast settings page(if set) also seems preferable to replacing the Facebook content with just “this cannot be displayed” – since that’s not going to get me a lot of clicks.

I did use the code from this tutorial which has enabled me to at least get the description tag populated for Facebook, but I don’t know how to plug in to the Yoast functionality to get the og:image tag set up too.

I’m happy to write my own code to fix this if you can point me in the right direction for how to override the blanking out of the password protected post’s Facebook data. I know it’s a weird use case – usually password protected posts aren’t really meant to be shared so most users probably aren’t too worried about this. I’m posting this particular post in some specific Facebook groups with the password, but I don’t want random users on the internet gaining access to it without some verification that they belong.

Let me know if I can be of any further help! (Sorry I’m so long responding… I wrote this all out and thought I sent it, but I just opened up this tab again and realized I hadn’t clicked “Submit” ???♀?)

Hi,

It’s definitely not a regular use case, as if you set a password to your post or page, that would indicate that you wouldn’t want to share that link publicly.

We’d like to point you to our developer portal where you can review all of the documentation if you want to modify the plugin to fit your needs better if you really need the open graph metadata to output for password-protected posts — https://developer.yoast.com/

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