Jetpack publicise, wrong image, Facebook and Google Plus

Another note.

I just did the same facebook debug on this page

https://dustyghost.com/comic/digger-and-snuff/digger-snuff-console/

this time I got a message:

Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that's at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image 'https://i2.wp.com/dustyghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Games_upload_edf.jpg?resize=1000%2C375' will be used instead.

I then went to this address (the one used in the image tag)

https://i2.wp.com/dustyghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Games_upload_edf.jpg?resize=200%2C200

the image there is exactly 200 x 200 px

So my thoughts are this:

1) the massage started “provided image could not be downloaded or is not big enough”
could it be that Enhanced Distribution is contributing this? maybe the image does not load fast enough for facebook?

2) maybe Facebook needs the image to be 201px X 201px ??

the 2nd option contradicts FB’s debug message, so is it likely the 1st option?

Ok, I just made all the thumbs 250 px and now that debug message is gone.
I think that making them 200px exactly is a bad idea.

Will let you know if this works on my next few posts to FB over the coming days.

I mentioned Enhanced Distribution earlier I meant photon, sorry

A quick update:
I’m not sure, but I think photon is the issue.

Throughout the day I have ran the FB debugger several times over selecting the “Fetch new scrape information” option.

With Photon on, I randomly get a message:

Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that’s at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook.

I get this message 1 in every 4 times I run the debugger.

With Photon off, I have never gotten this message…. so far.

I will keep playing, but it looks like Photon may need to be turned off on my site. ??

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful for your hard work to help out with the Open Graph tags, but I have turned off the WordPress SEO option to include their tags.
So before the last update, when Jetpack was putting in the open graph tags (even with Comic easel adding some too) this was all working for me.

Now you have taken your tags out, this is not working for me.

Sorry for all the confusion. Let me try to clarify:

Jetpack’s Open Graph meta tags were never activated on your site. As I mentioned in my first reply on this thread, “Jetpack automatically creates these Open Graph Meta tags for you unless you already use another Open Graph plugin, in which case we let the other plugin handle things. “
Since you use the WordPress SEO plugin, Jetpack’s OG tags are never displayed, regardless of your OG settings under SEO > Social.

It would have been nice to have a flag that would let me chose if Jetpack should add them in or not, rather than taking that decision out of my hands.

If you don’t want to use WP SEO meta tags, and would rather use Jetpack’s tags instead, you can use the plugin I mentioned earlier:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/always-use-jetpack-open-graph/

Comic easel is posting the correct image to the og tag, it’s 200 px at least.

I have just run the Facebook debugger on the page I last had issues with and that is not showing a problem?

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdustyghost.com%2Fcomic%2Ff-d-m-idget%2Ff-d-m-idget-problem%2F

1) the massage started “provided image could not be downloaded or is not big enough”
could it be that Photon is contributing this? maybe the image does not load fast enough for facebook?

I get this message 1 in every 4 times I run the debugger.

That can happen, unfortunately; Facebook’s debugger can return random results, on your site and on others. An image that’s exactly 200x200px should be accepted by Facebook, but sometimes Facebook’s debugger fails to find the image, whether it’s served by Photon or by your site. It’s really random, and I wasn’t able to find anything that could explain the problem.

At this point I’m afraid I can only suggest that you keep trying the debugger, and open a bug on Facebook if this keeps happening:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/trending/

If you don’t want to use WP SEO meta tags, and would rather use Jetpack’s tags instead, you can use the plugin I mentioned earlier:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/always-use-jetpack-open-graph/

Doh! I’d forgotten about that. The reason I know the Jetpack tags were there was that I was testing that pluggin, which is off right now as I was testing something else. Sorry to give you a hard time over it when that was me confusing myself. LOL

That can happen, unfortunately; Facebook’s debugger can return random results, on your site and on others. An image that’s exactly 200x200px should be accepted by Facebook, but sometimes Facebook’s debugger fails to find the image, whether it’s served by Photon or by your site. It’s really random, and I wasn’t able to find anything that could explain the problem.

Ok well, all I know is that since Photon is off, this seems to happen less frequently. So I’ll leave it off for now anyway. In the meantime I’ll raise a bug with FB.

Thanks again Jeremy!

Hey all,

So it looks like we have issues in this area again.
Nothing major, but I have just noticed that Jetpack is now injecting OG tags, and this causing my FB and twitter posts to come out differently to how I want them.

This was not happening before the last update as far as I could tell.

Is there a way to stop this as I have created my own OG tags and don’t want to use Jetpacks.

Cheers

You can disable Jetpack’s Open Graph Meta tags with the following code:

add_filter( 'jetpack_enable_open_graph', '__return_false' );

Ah ha! Thank you!