jwattam

I was having a similar problem – in particular with Facebook. I didn’t have my settings quite right in AIOSEO (which I thought I’d done last time I shared a blog post) but even after fixing them, I was still getting the wrong image in Facebook, even for posts which had previously been shared with the featured image showing correctly. I suspect an update to this plugin has changed something – the ‘social’ section of AIOSEO is now blank on individual posts.

The links given in this post proved helpful to troubleshoot. For the benefit of readers, these are:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector

I could see that Facebook was looking at an old version of my blog article that still had the wrong image. What I didn’t work out was where to go to immediately fix that – is it by clearing my host’s cache? Asking FB to ‘scrape’ again had no effect. (My ‘fix’ was to get interrupted by a phone call – when I came back and tried again, the new version of the page was feeding through with the featured image.)

I had no idea the HTML would be different when I’m logged in – tested on a logged out device and I confirm the Gmail address is no longer in the HTML.

Thanks!

The image placeholder reverts to a circle if I remove the custom image I added in WordPress. Hopefully it will remain a circle when I link to gravatar and it fetches the image from there.

Still seeing text below image placeholder though.