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Situation was as followed:

1. Default Post Type – No issues – Lands on Fan Page and Publishers Wall
2. Custom Post Type – On Post – Shows on Users ‘Recent Activity’ but not on time line as ordinary post type
3. Ordinary Post – When liked shows on user Timeline with title and description
4. Custom Post type doesn’t show in time line, but is visible in ‘Recent Activity’

Reason: Facebook plugin doesn’t post the ‘Description’ meta value for all post types.

When analysing the source code for Facebook plugin, I notice it looked for ‘exceprt’ to put a meta value for ‘description’. Since my custom post type doesn’t need an excerpt it was not given as a capability.

First check your theme to see if the custom post type (arguments given to register_post_type( $post_type, $args ) function property)

What you are looking for is at ‘supports’ which needs to get ‘excerpt’ value.

Yah, the plugin is very young, but I am disappointed, Facebook should use more horsepower to develop this section. Had I had time I will add those features.

Try adding the excerpt manually. For example, go to the top menu (I think it is screen options) and check Excerpt. Then you will get a box at bottom to enter the excerpt. Before publishing fill it and publish.

Mine doesn’t work, so actually can’t test it for you.

I agree with Otto, its getting better, but the wait is bitter! They need to give more control over the plugin, for example a PHP function to get the comment-count and another to get the comments.

Now it just comes with the_content() which ruins my design.

One more thing, when I started using the plugin and when some one liked it, the post will appear on the time line of the person. But no longer it appears. But it appears in recent activity.

Well I had an issue with my custom post types and had to change the defining of the custom post type adding ‘capability_type’ => ‘post’ ( in register_post_type()

Ok found a solution when declaring the post type use ‘capability_type’ => ‘post’.

But still a theme that is been used is not showing the recommendations.

Chris, are you using WordPress SEO (Yoast) plugin? It has an social option and once I unchecked Facebook from it it works.