northstatehillbilly

Hi there!

I forgot to post here when my site when live on Halloween.

It’s right here.

Thank you!!

I just thought to check and see if I can share my homepage on Facebook.

When I type in the URL in a new post on Facebook, it immediately grabs the correct image and the site description. So that’s working just fine. It’s the fallback image for posts that don’t have an image that’s not working.

muradabuseta:

Maybe you’re having a different problem than I am, then? When I clicked on the Facebook share button for your post that has the black apple image, I can see the image and an excerpt.

I’m having a very similar problem.

This is my website.

Using Yoast SEO and the social tab, I uploaded an image. This image is my fallback image when there isn’t an image in my blog posts. Since I just launched my website, I only have one post as of today.

At first the image was displaying just fine. Then I changed it from a boy moose to the girl moose you see in my avatar. I carefully pasted in the correct file path and entered it twice in the Facebook tab in your plugin.

It’s not showing up. When you click the share button for Facebook, you just get a white box instead of the moose image. So I went to the Facebook debugger tool and refreshed the cache and now, in the tool, I can see the correct image.

But after having cleared every single cache I can think of and resetting my browser, I’m still getting the same white box.

I was showing an error message, but I’m not anymore. This has been happening for two days now. The debugger shows the image, but when you click the share button on my post, you only see a white box where the image is supposed to go.

I’m not sure how to resolve this problem and hope someone from Yoast can help us. Thank you!!

Thank you!

I did the search for pages and it only found five. The homepage is one of the pages missing.

I didn’t realize it can take a few days for Google to index my site. Indexing means crawling through each page and registering it so that each one can be found in search results, correct?

You’d think if most of the others are showing up, the homepage would be the first one it indexes. But that’s the one it’s not pulling in a description for. It shows up first when you type the homepage URL into the search box, but no description.

I”ll wait a few days and see what happens, though.

Thank you!

I’ll contact Pinterest and let them know that their share code produces an error when an image isn’t included in a blog post. The error message is confusing and makes it look like the error was created by me or the plugin developer.

It really needs to be more clear. Thanks for your quick response, though!!

Oh, my gosh, I love you! Thank you so much.

Your plugin will be widely shared by me. You’re so thorough and attentive. I was thrilled to see that Facebook grabbed the moose image way down in the footer and put it next to the post title and excerpt. It looks great!!

Carla :o)))

Okay, it’s me again. :o)

I tested this by adding an image to a post and clicking the Facebook share button. The photo didn’t show up, but instead of showing my website’s name twice, it showed the URL, the post title, and an excerpt, which I really like.

If it’s not going to show the photo, I wish it would still grab the title and excerpt. Is there any way to do this?

I’m an essayist and don’t intend to upload many images to my posts. I can understand if Pinterest requires a photo, but a nice message explaining this would be helpful instead of an error message.

With Facebook, it didn’t grab the photo, but because the photo was there, it made Facebook sharer happy and so it went ahead and grabbed the post title and excerpt.

Ack. :o)

Well, I think I answered my own question. I uploaded a photo to one of my posts and tried pinning it to Pinterest. It grabbed the photo and the post title and pinned without any problems.

If you don’t have a photo, folks aren’t likely to want to share a post on Pinterest. But in case someone does try to, I wish they could be shown a message that says only posts with an image can be pinned. That would be really helpful instead of the confusing error message.

I’m not sure anything can be done about it, though. Is this happening from Pinterest’s end of things?

Mark!

I was doing some work in my functions file, when I discovered the enqueued dashicons. I vaguely remember adding this for a test project last year. So I removed it, refreshed everything, and the dang error that kept showing up in the develop tool disappeared.

I’m so glad for your wonderful insight and detective work. Thank you so much.

I’m not sure if that’s what was causing the Google Font load problem. You mentioned that may have been a separate issue. So I’ll have to wait for the problem to happen again and see if I can figure it out.

But thank you so much!!

Mark, my hosting company just did another search for the error and determined that their server is giving the correct MIME type for .CSS files, just like you said.

I’m glad to know that. It helps rule out that possibility.

They were also able to recreate the error and could see the error message and the generic serif font. When the Ubuntu font doesn’t load, a second error message appears indicating the server timed out trying to load the font.

Could those be two different problems? I just assumed they were related.

So something is causing the missing file extension problem. It’s because the extension isn’t there that the font isn’t loading properly, correct? Or is that related to the Dashicons?

Only the Ubuntu font is having the problem. When a page on my site loads, the other fonts load quickly and Ubuntu comes second. I removed Google Fonts from the stylesheet and enqueued them in the functions file, and this made a noticeable difference in load time, but Ubuntu still loads last.

It’s such an odd problem. I like the detective work, but at this point it’s over my head. I’m not sure what else to do.

I’m not sure what you mean by extension, but thank you for looking into this for me!

I created my own follow icons using Fontello and a font file. You can see them at the bottom of my website. Dashicons must be coming from the Genesis child theme I used to build my own child theme. I used Eleven40Pro.

I don’t use Dashicons in my website, but maybe they’re used in the WordPress dashboard?

SiteGround is my hosting company. They did a thorough search for the problem and couldn’t find anything. They want to recreate the problem and say it’s hard to fix when they can’t replicate it. But you can see the error message. I followed one suggestion to add a line of code to the .htaccess file and it didn’t remove the error, so I removed that line.

I added this: AddType text/css .css

I deactivated all plugins, one by one, and the error message still shows. And just now the Ubuntu font didn’t load when I refreshed the page, so for me anyway, the design is broken since it’s now using the default serif. It’s when the font doesn’t load that the second error message appears.

Back to Dashicons … any thoughts on how they could be the source of this problem?

tech55541, somehow I didn’t see your message to me. Thank you for the links.

Someone on Twitter gave me a link to this:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Incorrect_MIME_Type_for_CSS_Files

I’m chatting with my hosting company to see if MIME error and font not loading could be a server problem. Meanwhile, I’ll browse the links you gave me.

I’ll post back here when a solution is found.

I’ve never seen this done as a function before. Thank you!

Thanks, Mark. It doesn’t happen all the time. I can work on my site all day and do multiple refreshes and everything is fine. Then all of a sudden Ubuntu won’t load and it takes a dozen or more refreshes to make it load.