Twitter card not changed, with duplicate posts

Hey @herbertwest1,

First of all, we agree that it should be the large image by default for new users. We were already planning on changing this in a future update, probably 4.2.3.

With regard to Yoast Duplicate Plugin, we integrate with it and it should duplicate your SEO/social meta settings automatically. I just tried and confirmed this on my own test site. Are you using the “Clone” option and using a recent version of AIOSEO?

Thanks @arnaudbroes for the reply.

Good news about the upcoming default option, that would be great.
If the cloning functions for me ??

I use uptodate versions of AIOSEO, so i just updated to the latest : 4.2.2, but its still the same for me : if i create a new article it’s the summary with large picture.
If I “duplicate” an article, it’s still “summary”

In case that it’s useful, here is an article of the url/used by the plugin to duplicate : /wp-admin/admin.php?action=duplicate_post_new_draft&post=48397&_wpnonce=2059dc624d

Any ideas?

I might have misunderstood previously.

When you are creating a brand-new article that is unrelated to another one, then the default values for that post will be based on what you’ve selected in the Social Networks settings. I assume you’ve now selected “Summary with large Image” as the Twitter Card size there.

However, if you are duplicating a page using YDP, then it will also duplicate all the SEO/social meta data you’ve set for the original page. If the original page is set to use “Summary” (based on the old default value), then the cloned instance of the page will also have “Summary” set.

Is that what is happening here?

Yes, I believe that this is what is happening here.

Because originally my default setting was “summary” (not “summary with large image”), my previous articles have that value associated.
If I duplicate an article, it will keep this setting, evene if I have another default settings in AIOSEO.

So I guess that my point is that the default value in AIOSEO is not overriding the previous setting in articles when I duplicate an article

Does that make sense?

That makes sense, but that’s the intended behaviour though. If you duplicate a page, you duplicate all existing AIOSEO data as well.

Maybe from a certain point of view, but not from mine.

Another way to look at it then, would be : is there a way an option, something to change the default setting from all past articles?
Because that’s what I intend to do. And therefore duplicating will go back to to the new setting

@herbertwest1 that depends. There are three options in the metabox:

1. Default (Set under Social Networks > Twitter)
2. Summary
3. Summary with Large Image

If those posts are using the “Default” value, then they should automatically switch to “Summary with Large Image” if you change the default setting under Social Networks > Twitter.

However, if that’s not the case and they are specifically set to “Summary”, then there’s no easy way to do this.

Our team can however write a code snippet for you that just have to run once on your website (e.g. by putting it in your theme’s functions.php file and just loading some random page) that runs a database query to change the value for all of your posts.

Let me know if that is something you’d like.

Yep @arnaudbroes, I looked at the previous articles.
In the past, they were set as “summary” and not as “default” (set under social networks > twitter)

And a little while ago, I changed the value because I wanted to move to “Summary with large image”

So ok, I understand. But yes, it could be interesting (for me as well as other AIOSEO users) to have an option allowing to go edit the value of all the previous articles and therefore actually changing the default

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by herbertwest1.

Hello @arnaudbroes ,

Following up with your previous suggestion of :
“Our team can however write a code snippet for you that just have to run once on your website (e.g. by putting it in your theme’s functions.php file and just loading some random page) that runs a database query to change the value for all of your posts.”

I am still interested in that ??

Hey @herbertwest1,

You can use the code snippet below –

add_filter( 'admin_init', 'aioseo_update_twitter_card_value' );

function aioseo_update_twitter_card_value() {
	global $wpdb;

	$tableName = $wpdb->prefix . 'aioseo_posts';
	$wpdb->query( "UPDATE ${tableName} SET twitter_card = 'default'" );
}

If you’re unsure how to run this code snippet on your site, then I would recommend you to use the WP Code plugin – https://nl.www.ads-software.com/plugins/code-snippets/

Once you’ve installed that plugin, create a new snippet like this and make sure it’s active – https://prnt.sc/GhfhlMcxeeLT

Then, reload the page and simply deactivate the snippet again.

Before you do any of this, I highly recommend you to create a backup so that you can restore your data if anything goes wrong.

Thanks @arnaudbroes !

Sorry for the late reply, I didnt get any email notifications and didn’t see I got a reply…

Thanks for the code snippet, it worked correctly
Seems like all my new articles / old / duplicating old articles now all have the right value :
name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image”

So that’s a good thing done… I still don’t know why when sharing a link on Twitter, it doesn’t show as a “Summary Card with Large Image”, but I will investigate further