Debugging Facebook Posts
When your users share something on Facebook they get something that looks like this:
One of my clients had a problem where the text that was showing when sharing a page to Facebook was wrong and I learned two things.
- It's very hard to test this using the normal front end.
- Facebook caches information about your page.
The link below give you access to see what Facebook is getting from your site so you can fix any issues and force an update to clear the cache.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
The thing I find most interesting is that Facebook is finding this winking smiley face on the TPT home page:
Scott Keck-Warren
Scott is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect where he strives to provide solutions for his customers needs. He's the father of two and can be found most weekends working on projects around the house with his loving partner.
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