facebook post sharing issue

#1 · April 26, 2019, 7:21 pm

hello, when i sharing forum psot or forum page on facebook, facebook not showing correct post names, post pictures and nothing, how to fix it can anyone tell me?

when i sharing link, facebook showing only post titles

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#2 · April 27, 2019, 4:03 pm

Hello @maturelly

Facebook should automatically generate a preview based on the topic-title and the text of the first post. Asgaros Forum creates the necessary meta-tags which are required for it.

However, if you are using another SEO-extension it can be possible that it overwrites the ones generated by the forum. In this case please ensure that the used SEO-plugin is disabled for the page which contains your forum-shortcode.

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#3 · April 30, 2019, 8:27 am

understand thenk you <3

#4 · April 30, 2019, 8:38 am

but i try to disable seo on forum page but it’s not working, i using yoastseo

#5 · April 30, 2019, 11:38 am

Hello @maturelly

Can you post a link to your forum so I can have a look into your HTML-output?

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#6 · May 1, 2019, 10:28 am

https://gameshop.ge/forum/

#7 · May 1, 2019, 8:52 pm

we have the same problem but only with the preview image

we do not have seo plugin active

page with the shortcode [forum] has a thumbnail

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#8 · May 1, 2019, 11:19 pm

yes only image cant fetching…

@asgaros please fix this problem…

#9 · May 2, 2019, 4:18 pm

i see

<!-- Asgaros Forum: BEGIN -->
<link rel="canonical" href="XXXXXXXXX" />
<meta name="description" content="Forum" />
<meta property="og:url" content="XXXXXXXXX" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Forum" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Forum" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="XXXXXXXXX" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Forum" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Forum" />
<!-- Asgaros Forum: END -->

but where is og:image ?

#10 · May 2, 2019, 7:51 pm

Just to make things clear: You want to use a general forum-picture for social-media websites which you have set for your forum-page containing your shortcode? Or a picture which is inside of the first post inside a forum-topic?

While the first one should be possible to implement, the last one can be problematic because:

1: There is no way to specific a preview-image directly inside the WordPress-editor
2: Posts not always have images
3: Posts can have multiple images and even some smiley-plugins are converting the string to images

Especially 1 and 3 are problematic because the only way would be to parse the entire content and choose pictures randomly – and this may be not optimal if this picture is a smiley.

I will check if I can find a way to implement this and put it on my todo-list:

https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/222

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