FB:Admins And FB:App ID Missing in Add Meta Tags

  • Resolved Andrew Arthur Dawson

    (@andrewarthurdawson)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Currently, the Add Meta Tags plug-in is not populating two meta fields which are:

    FB:Admins
    FB:App_ID

    Both are checked for by Facebook when sharing a post there. I get the following error at the present time because they are not being populated:

    “Admins And App ID Missing fb:admins and fb:app_id tags are missing.
    These tags are necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that
    generates a high click-through rate.”

    Can this be added in the next build of this plug-in and is there a workaround?

    Thanks,
    Andrew

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/add-meta-tags/

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  • Plugin Author George Notaras

    (@gnotaras)

    Hello Andrew,

    I’ll do some research about whether the ‘fb:admins’ metatag is necessary for proper validation and add it in future releases of the plugin.

    As I replied in the email, currently, there are two ways to add those meta tags:

    1) By adding them to the ‘Site-wide Meta tags’ box under Settings->Metadata:

    <meta property=”fb:admins” content=”ENTER_USER_ID_HERE” />
    <meta property=”fb:app_id” content=”ENTER_APP_ID_HERE” />

    2) By adding the following piece of code to functions.php file of your theme.

    function amt_extend_og_metatags( $metatags ) {
    $metatags[] = '<meta property="fb:admins" content="ENTER_USER_ID_HERE" />';
    $metatags[] = '<meta property="fb:app_id" content="ENTER_APPID_HERE" />';
    return $metatags;
}
add_filter( 'amt_opengraph_metadata_head', 'amt_extend_og_metatags', 10, 1 );

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter Andrew Arthur Dawson

    (@andrewarthurdawson)

    I ended up doing option 1, and only added the first one, the user_id and that got rid of the message. It would be great if the next iteration of add meta tags could have two fields to input these and once inputted, the code was added automatically for it. Please let me know if you find out why Facebook is now needing these things when a WordPress blog comes over to it. Thanks!

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