Preview (excerpt and image) not being displayed when placing URL in LinkedIn

  • Here’s the blog: https://www.equitylancer.com/equicenter/

    If I try to share a link on LinkedIn by placing the URL in the status update field, WordPress should automatically generate an excerpt by selecting the first 55 words of the post followed by the linked ellipsis “[…]”. This is not the case anymore.

    Now, when I share a link, all I see is the link and a direct URL to the website.

    It works fine on Facebook, but not on LinkedIn. Any ideas why?

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  • This is going to be too difficult for you to get answered here. There is way too much that could have been done to the code so your question could be answered a million ways. Gathering from what you are saying he added a solution that was coded into the theme and who knows what other files it touches. For example, I’ve used socialite.js for sharing but that involves much more than the functions.php file.

    Unfortunately, questions this broad get ignored on here since most people know that it is outside of the scope to help with problems this deep. You may have to seek out someone that can take a look.

    Hi there! I’m having the exact same problem with my site. Did you ever resolve this?
    I honestly can’t figure it out.

    Thanks!
    Karl

    Hi there,

    I was struggling with the same issue (WordPress Multisite with MSLS for various languages) and made one discovery. I haven’t tested this extensively so I’m not quite sure if this is “reproducable” or if it can help others but…

    It seems to me that part of the problem resulted from the permalink structure of your WordPress. Furthermore whenever more than one category was selected for a particular post LinkedIn would have difficulty interpreting the link.

    The solution I found to work was to de-activate all categories but one (Additional note: for some reason it seems that it’s best to not choose “news” as the active category) and click update. Then try and copy-paste the link in the LinkedIn update field.

    If the link is interpreted (“swallowed”) correctly by LinkedIn, you can post the update and if this is important choose to re-activate other categories on your WordPress post.

    HTH, JP

    On another forum, I found a recommendation to check the banlist of hosts and user agents. For Apache webservers it is created in the .htaccess file by webmasters – manually or with the help of “security plugins”, e.g. Better WP Security.

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/having-url-preview-problems-in-linkedin-bot-blacklist-is-blocking-them/

    Hi everyone, I also found that de-activating WP Better Security solved this problem for me. Here’s my 10 cents.

    I am experiencing inconsistent behavior that just changed this week although I did not apply any changes on my side.

    Old blog posts: Facebook and LinkedIn both resolve the URL to show the blog post excerpt and image in both the preview and after shared. This still works with new shares of old posts. (e.g. old post)

    New blog posts: Facebook works, but LinkedIn does not. On LinkedIn, it just shows the domain part of the URL and that is it. (e.g. new post)

    The only thing I can think of that is different is that it was a different contributor that uploaded the text content. But I am the one who uploads photos and actually publishes the posts.

    @eraynor – please start a new thread – this one is 8 months old.

    Hi

    I am having the same problem. Where when i try and post a link from my wordpress website to linkedin it shows only the site title three times. No image, no information. My other website works fine. I noticed last night my website was missing a sitemap which I have fixed. Does anyone have another things I can check its really hindering my business not being able to post.

    I did e-mail linkedin helpdesk they closed the call and send me to wordpress support lol

    Freddo to anyone that can help me fix this ??

    Sam

    This continues to be a sporadic problem on my site as well. It appears to be more of a problem during busy times, so I wonder if it is performance related. Perhaps LinkedIn has a short timeout for retrieving this data?

    I agree that this is a major hindrance to marketing my blog. Quite a few people have commented about experiencing this problem. It would be great if one of the code contributors would take this up!

    Its really weird though as my other site works perfectly. I wonder if I’ve missed something. I have only just added a sitemap yesterday. Being a job board and not having the ability to post to Linkedin is a bit of a business killer. I’m sure its either a security issue or a setup issue. Any help appreciated

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