My wordpress posts don't display properly on Facebook

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  johnacrandall · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 2:08 am

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  When my Posts are publicized on FaceBook, they don’t display as they do in WordPress. All formatting seems to be stripped and paragraphs are removed.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 23, 2015 at 7:49 am

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  Hi there. I’m afraid WordPress.com has no control over this – post previews are created and controlled entirely by Facebook. The only way to control this is to post your links to Facebook manually. Then you should be able to edit the preview before you click the Post button.

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  johnacrandall · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 10:48 pm

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  Thanks kokkieh, I was afraid that was the case. I was hoping for a work around but . . .

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 10:58 pm

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  How exactly are they being shared? Publicize should only post the first couple of lines (although it does so without any formatting). If you’re using some service to draw in the whole post, try using one based on RSS like Networked Blogs, which retains formatting.

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  johnacrandall · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 8:59 am

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  Raincoaster, thanks for responding, I am simply publicizing from wordpress and you are right, it gives the first few lines without formatting. This is Ok for most things, but I often want to publicize to facebook poems that I put on wordpress, it would be nice to be able to have even just the first few lines retain returns at least so they aren’t all jumbled up together. I will look at Networked blogs to see what they are about and I will just post poems by hand for now unless their is a more elegant way of doing things.