Facebook share adds HTML as text

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  solsticelight · Member · Mar 22, 2012 at 5:19 pm

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  Recently, the Facebook share paragraph that comes from the “og:description” meta property tag includes HTML as text: <p>< so what shows up in the share-post is <p> which looks messy and not inviting for clicking... Any suggestions? I have of course searched the forums without any luck.

  Also, the Facebook share worked fine until about the time I paid for an ad-free blog... no idea if that's a connection.

  Thanks all.

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  solsticelight · Member · Mar 22, 2012 at 5:22 pm

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  Well, my effort to use the “code” tag to show the problem didn’t work. I should have tried the back tick instead. The open graphic meta tag looks like:

  <meta property="og:description" content="My favorite tree is the Ponderosa pine that clings to the thin rocky soil in my front yard. On warm &hellip;<p><a href=&quot;https://solsticelight.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/my-favorite-tree-is-a-pine/&quot;>C..." />

  If this doesn’t work either, sorry.