Error when sharing wordpress blogposts to Facebook

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    markushankins537229151 · Member ·

    Until yesterday my blogposts worked fine when sharing them to Facebook. Facebook took the picture, headline and a piece of the text automatically. But now it’s not working, it’s like it can’t find the specific blogpost but only the main page of the website. Why is this?

    I tried Facebook sharing debuger, and it says:
    1. Bad Response Code
    URL returned a bad HTTP response code.
    2. Inferred Property
    The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
    3. Missing Properties
    The following required properties are missing: og:url, og:type, og:title, og:image, og:description, fb:app_id

    When asking Facebook sharing debugger:
    “See exactly what our scraper sees for your URL”

    The answer is:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd”>
    <html>
    <head><meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″></head>
    <body><p>Blocked</p></body>
    </html>

    I googled the errors and found:

    Facebook Debugger – Bad Response Code: URL returned a bad HTTP response code : 404

    So I tried emptying out the WordPress htaccess page. Nothing is left but:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    # Direktiven (raderna) mellan BEGIN WordPress och END WordPress genereras dynmiskt och bör endast ändras via WordPress-filter. Eventuella ändringar till direktiven mellan dessa markörer kommer att skrivas över.
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    And the site is working well. But the problem with Facebook not finding the pages is still here to stay. So I found more chatter online about people with similar problems appearing after installing or removing plugins, so I deleted all plugins (except Htaccess Editor – Safely Edit Htaccess File), but the problem is still not solved.

    Help me please. What can I do to get my WordPress blogposts back to normal on Facebook?

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi there, could you send a link to the site you’re having trouble with? It sounds like the one you’re describing is either on a Business Plan, which would get you chat based support if you’re logged into the correct account.

    Or it could actually be a WordPress.org installation hosted somewhere else. If it is hosted somewhere else, you’ll need to use the forums for self-managed WordPress installations instead:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

    Hoping this helps!

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