Metadata not showing up in Pinterest Rich Pin

  • Resolved elilyjayy

    (@elilyjayy)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, I’ve been trying to set up Pinterest Rich Pins for my website using Yoast SEO metadata.

    I’ve edited the Google Preview snippet to include a metadata description but when I try to validate my Pinterest Rich Pin and then pin the image, nothing shows up in the image titles and descriptions.

    Is there somewhere else that I can change the post metadata or any other way I can resolve this issue?

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  • Plugin Support Suwash

    (@suascat_wp)

    Hi @elilyjayy,

    Sorry for the trouble you’re having with Pinterest setup.

    Have you confirmed your site on Pinterest? If still not, please log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to the Yoast SEO menu item, and click ‘Social’. Then, go to the Pinterest tab of the Social settings. There, you can fill out a confirmation code to confirm your site with Pinterest. You can get more detail instructions on this KB guide: How to get Pinterest Rich Pins for your site

    I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter elilyjayy

    (@elilyjayy)

    Hi Suwash, thank you for your quick reply.

    I have previously confirmed my site on Pinterest and have followed all the steps on the guide. (I spent some time reviewing them in depth again) However, my metadata is still not being pulled from my site.

    I am a bit confused by this step here:

    On your homepage, Yoast will output the following OpenGraph tags: meta property=”og:type” content=”website”. In order to make Pinterest validate Rich Pins for the homepage, you will need to develop the ability to output “article” only on the homepage and place it, most likely, in your theme’s functions.php file.

    To do this, you need to use the Change Yoast SEO OpenGraph Type code here: Develop Filters to Set Custom OpenGraph Tags. Please know that you may need to develop the ability.

    Do I need to change my theme functions.php file? If so, what do I add/change?

    Alternatively, could my issue be because of the way I am pinning my images to Pinterest? I am using jQuery Pin It Button For Images and Ultimate Social Media Share buttons. I have also tried using Tailwind scheduler which can’t seem to find my page metadata either. Is there anything you would recommend to help me with this? I am open to using different plugins if this is the issue.

    Hi @elilyjayy,

    This can be a bit confusing because there could be several different factors involved. Below, we’ll just concentrate on whether Yoast SEO is working:

    1. Yoast SEO should automatically add the correct og:type metadata to your pages, so you don’t need to add any custom code if you’re using the latest version. Can you verify this by viewing the page source?

    2. Yoast SEO should generate the correct Open Graph tags that Pinterest can use. Can check an example page to see whether the metadata in the og:title, og:description, and og:image tags are correct?

    If the correct information is in these tags, then we recommend contacting the developers of the pin and share button plugins or services that you’re using to see if there are any additional steps you need to take.

    Feel free to inform us of the results.

    Thread Starter elilyjayy

    (@elilyjayy)

    Hi Priscilla,

    When I view the page source, the og:title and og:description is correct, but there is no og:image tag.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @elilyjayy To set an og:image value, ?you can do this by performing the following actions:
    ?

      ?Go to the Edit screen for the page/post
      ?Scroll down to the Yoast meta box
      ?Click on the Social tab
      ?Click on the Facebook tab
      ?Browse to select ‘Facebook Image’
      ?Click ‘Update’

    Can you please try that and confirm whether you then see a value for og:image being output?

    Thread Starter elilyjayy

    (@elilyjayy)

    Hi,

    I’ve set a Facebook Image and I can see a value for og:image in the page source, but when I try to Pin my image, I still don’t see my set description.

    Hi,

    We looked at https://elilyjay.com/why-im-starting-a-blog/ and we can see Yoast is outputting all the right metadata for use with Pinterest in the source code. Including, og:image, og:title, and og:description. See image: https://pasteboard.co/Jfl53Wd.png

    We also tested in the Pinterest debugger here and it shows they recognize the description. See image: https://pasteboard.co/Jfl5jmv.png

    We are not sure why Pinterest is failing to show the description. We only know that Yoast is outputting correctly.We suggest contracting Pinterest OR the plugins/tools you are using to share the link to Pinterest. You can contact Pinterest here:?https://help.pinterest.com/en

    Thread Starter elilyjayy

    (@elilyjayy)

    Hi, I’ve been working on resolving the issue of the rich pins with Pinterest and have now gotten the rich pin to show my post excerpt and title.

    However, the rich pin shows my post title in the format: [Post title] | [Site name] [Primary Category] – [Category] .

    This is despite my search appearance settings in Yoast SEO: %%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%%

    Is there anything I can do to change this?

    Thank you.

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