Everytime i try to share a wordpress post in my Linkedin it doesn´t pick up the imagem in the article. Don´t have any problem doing this on Facebook for example and i think everything in the Open Graph Meta is correct because my source code says:
meta property="og:image" content="http://smartkiss.net/assets/online-ad.jpg"
The dimensions are more than 80 x 150 pixels as Linkedin recommends. Any idea why this might be happening ?
Thanks
One of the possible reason might be that LinkedIn takes image from oEmbed tag as it shown in another topic.
I faced with wrong image choosing by LinkedIn in my WordPress site. I found the problem by discovering URL by LinkedIn post inspector and saw the next information:
Try serving your images in a .png format versus a .jpg format. I know of several people having the exact same issue and this always worked.
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I developed a custom plugin for wordpress. In my plugin I´m using a linkedIn share button but when I try to share the article, linkedIn uses the wrong image. What have I done wrong? I tryed several solutions. og:image etc. are set correctly but I don´t know why it is not working.
Here is a link to the page:
https://www.vdtev.de/artikel?/event/vdt-treasury-online-mentoring/790
Thank you in advance.
The cache may be out of date for the link you are trying to share. Use the Post Inspector to test sharing the link and to cache the latest changes.
I use wordpress.org and bluehost. My site url is http://www.midnightmassmusic.com , and everytime I share an article either through text message, or onto fb, it doesn't display an image. I used facebook debugger and it keeps say there's no og description, and it's an invalid content type. How do I fix this? I even added facebook and google to hotlink protection, wondering if that was causing it. It didn't help. I use Yoast, didn't help. Is it possibly my image optimizer (Ewww) plugin interfering? Or are my image files not formatted correctly? Bluehost won't help me because they claim it's Facebook's problem..but it's not. The same error is occuring when sharing through text.
First of all, there is no og:decription tag in your source, so Facebook is right about that. That being said, your og:image is not accessible in public. I get a 403 error when i try to load it in the browser: https://midnightmassmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181230_1552042-1-e1547951786467.jpg
Btw, your image size would be 600x800, which is not an appropriate aspect ratio for og images. You should use 1200x630 according to the docs.
I am sharing an url "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/trend-tracking/jaitley-promises-robust-tax-regime-for-investors/articleshow/62741496.cms?utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TEST-LINKEDIN" via share api, but no image is picked up from the og:image tag (i.e. meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com" ).
But when i am trying to share the same url from linkedin admin page, it is picking up the image. This means that the image follows all the size-standards and other things required by linkedin.
Then why is the share api not picking up image url from the open graph tag.
If you think your share is properly formatted, but it's not working, first thing I would do is head on over to the LinkedIn Post Inspector, which will examine your URL and look for problems.
But, your URL does look right! Are you sharing like this, with proper URL encoding?
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Ftrend-tracking%2Fjaitley-promises-robust-tax-regime-for-investors%2Farticleshow%2F62741496.cms%3Futm_source%3Dlinkedin.com%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3DTEST-LINKEDIN
Because this link works for me! Take a look:
Sometimes you just need another pair of eyes on the same problem! Hope this helps!
I've got a site that has multiple share buttons on entries in a WordPress site.
We designed this so there are no individual entries to view, they're Podcasts and videos. The listing page has a minimum of 10 entries, each with share buttons.
Currently the share links and titles are working correctly. But the page is not recognizing the og:image, and instead is picking up the default logo for the site itself.
I read another post on Stack Overflow that said it might be an issue for LinkedIn if the image is utilizing SSL for the link. But I just find that hard to believe.
The other issue I'm struggling with, the docs say once an image is scraped it stays cached for approximately 7 days.
I had an issue with FaceBook and there's a debugger that allows you to rescrape the page which let's me verify my changes worked.
My two questions are, is there something other than the og:image i should be specifying? since I can't specify it per post, it's in the head of the page itself, i would think it would pick that up. No?
Second, is there a way a developer can re-check after the meta info has been changed to see if the changes worked, without having to wait the TTL on the cache?
try this:
url/link?blah=1
url/link?blah=2
url/link?blah=3
to get around the cache.
This should trick it into thinking its a new page each time.
Can i get a link to test?
Anthony Walz posted the correct answer. Through email he also helped another problem i had which corrected a new issue i didn't realize I had until i looked.
my LinkedIn shares were not picking up the show title, they were picking up the page description instead (i have several podcasts showing on one page, we don't use individual post pages, they all play from the listing.)
he pointed me to the developer docs on formatting sharing links
Which gives a real world example - here:
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://developer.linkedin.com&title=LinkedIn%20Developer%20Network
&summary=My%20favorite%20developer%20program&source=LinkedIn
Thanks a ton for assist Anthony!
The past week, Facebook has been getting every article feature image wrong on my site. The og:image is clearly defined, worked fine for the past few months and even the debugger shows the correct image, yet it chooses to use the same incorrect image across all new articles now.
Article
http://www.highwaysindustry.com/causeway-creating-a-competitive-edge/
Facebook Debugger:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
URL: http://www.highwaysindustry.com/causeway-creating-a-competitive-edge/
The meta tag, which clearly provides/defines the correct image Facebook should be using:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.highwaysindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Causeway-image-1.jpg" />
When on the debugger, if you Fetch New Scrape Information it will fix the issue. However I am currently having to do this on every single article that is posted. Why it's getting the wrong image in the first place I don't know.
In case someone runs the 'fetch new scrape information', here it is at the moment for that URL provided:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8t4o9h3o1p9uxhv/debugger-fb.png?dl=0
I am using WordPress and Yoast SEO.
There's a warning. And it's going to take some time to update the latest information but for now you might have to fetch new scrape information yourself.
og:image was not defined, could not be downloaded or was not big enough. Please define a chosen image using the og:image metatag, and use an image that's at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image 'http://www.highwaysindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dorman00001-e1423681471392.jpg' will be used instead.