Posting page URL's to Facebook

Beaver Builder
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Hey guys

In the past whenever I’ve posted a page URL to Facebook a small box appears with the page description and my logo to the side of it. However now my logo seems to be missing and I just get the box with the page description. I haven’t changed much on my site recently so I can’t think what’s caused the logo to disappear. Any ideas?

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Hey Ian,

The image that appears there is the og:image meta tag that you’ve assigned to your site. The BB theme nor plugin does not have a way to do that, nor does it mess with those tags.

I know the plugin Yoast SEO allows you to add one per page. You might want to give it a shot. :slight_smile:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Ben

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Strange how it was working and isn’t now. The only thing I can think of is I changed from W3 Total Cache to the Zen Cache plugin, so maybe it has something to do with that.

I have Yoast SEO and just found the option so thanks, I’ll give that a try now.

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No worries at all, Ian! Did you get to check the markup of the page in question if it indeed have that meta tag in place?

Ben

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I’m not sure how to check the markup/meta tag of the page. Do you know how I can do this?

I also tried uploading an image to the Facebook tab of Yoast SEO/Social, but the image still isn’t showing. Do you know if something is stopping it? I did have a look at Yoast support but couldn’t find any answers and it seems they only respond to users with a paid Yoast account, not the free version I have.

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Hi Ian,

You can check your pages markup by right-clicking on your page and select “View Page Source”. From here you should be able to locate a number of tags with og:.

You can also use the Facebook debugger to check for any errors - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

You should also read this article, it goes into greater detail - http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-facebook-incorrect-thumbnail-issue-in-wordpress/

Thanks,
Danny

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Using that debugger worked perfectly. Thanks Danny!

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Hi Ian,

Happy to hear your issue has been resolved and thanks for informing us.

Thanks,
Danny