Facebook scrape information does not display block content

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  • Plugin Author Dave Liske

    (@delmarliske)

    balvan64 I’ve been looking into this issue and have finally located the most-likely problem. Looking at the source code for the page you linked to:

    <!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v3.0.3 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ –>
    <meta name=”description” content=”[contentblock id=hmn_yanagibas_oct] [contentblock id=17 img=gcb.png]”/>

    What happens is that Facebook scrapes the meta description (or an og:description if you have that set up instead) and loads it as the description for their link. That’s probably what you’re seeing happen, especially since this is the only place the shortcodes appear when viewing the page source. This is a known issue with the Yoast SEO plugin, as described here:

    https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/2846

    Looking at their changelog, it appears the fix has not yet been implemented. If you’re so inclined, the solution is also listed on the above linked page. I haven’t tried it myself, so I can offer no guarantees. But your issue is definitely reproducable with the current version of the Yoast plugin installed.

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