at first when I posted when it went to facebook it had a box that linked back to
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at first when I posted when it went to facebook it had a box that linked back to my blog. Now it only shows part of what I wrote. wondering if I am doing something different
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Hi there!
Can you give me a link to your Facebook posts one that worked and one that didn’t? If you click on the timestamp of the post you’ll get just that individual post.
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My first post for sure worked and the last one for sure didn’t. the first was on Feb 22 and today was the last one. I don’t understand what the timestamp is…I clicked on the actual date above and left of the post. sorry very new
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does it make a difference if I post from my laptop or the app on my phone. I posted just now from my computer and it had the link box on facebook
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well come to find out the post that showed up on my page last night with the WP box that takes them to my blog only showed up on my page. no one else could see it
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does it make a difference if I post from my laptop or the app on my phone. I posted just now from my computer and it had the link box on facebook
Nope! You can post from anywhere.
I need links to your Facebook posts. If you look at a timeline in Facebook, there’s a little timestamp that tells you when the post was published. If you click on that, it will take you to the permalink for that specific post. If you can copy that URL and give it to me, I can take a look at your Facebook posts.
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https://www.facebook.com/martha.bastin/posts/10205292740494237:1?pnref=story THIS ONE WORKED
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205311591565502&set=a.10205286233451565.1073741852.1119190083&type=1&permPage=1 THIS ONE DIDNT
https://www.facebook.com/martha.bastin/posts/10205303090192973:1?pnref=story THIS ONE DIDNT EVEN SHOW UP TO ANYONE ELSE -
Those links don’t work for me, which makes me think you’re shares are restricted. This is totally fine. We’ll just have to come at it from another angle. Could you take a screenshot of the posts? We have a guide for that here:
If you upload them to your Media Library I can take a look. And could you provide me with a link to the WordPress posts that these Facebook posts should link to.
I believe this might be happening based on the content or post type. Facebook tries to interpret what we send them the best it can, which sometimes results in different styles of posts. This happens especially with posts that have galleries or images in them.
Once I have those images and links, I can dig into why this happened. :)
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ok there are three pics in my Library. One didn’t work (Back to the grindstone), One didn’t even show up an others page(way to go lady pats) and one worked (best cup of coffee). https://kydee143.wordpress.com/page/3/ (here is my link to my WordPress page and my FB page https://www.facebook.com/martha.bastin
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looks like it works when I don’t post a picture. now what do I do. how do I do it so I can post a picture
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Thanks for those specific details! I’ve taken a look at the three posts you mentioned and I’m not sure why Facebook is treating them differently. :(
I’m going to do some testing on my own site using your theme to see if I can figure out what Facebook is doing. I’ll let you know when I figure it out.
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Alright. I did a bunch of testing on my site and here’s what I’ve found. If you have a fairly small amount of text (I think around 75 words) and only one image in your post, whether its in your content or set as the featured image, Facebook will import the image and display the text without the full link to your WordPress.com site.
There’s no way for us to change this because this is all done on Facebook’s side. But I found that if you include more than one image, then Facebook doesn’t do this:
In my example here, I set a featured image and added an image to the content.
I hope this gives you enough information to work around Facebook’s weirdness. Please let me know if I can help further!
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