Publicise to Facebook using correct URL

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  crowlasludgvanwi · Member · May 2, 2013 at 6:23 pm

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  I have a website for my W.I. group on WordPress – http://www.crowlasludgvanwi.wordpress.com. I bought a domain name (not through WordPress) – http://www.crowlas-ludgvanwi.org.uk – and mapped that domain name to the site. So far so good. My problem is in publicising website content to Facebook. I can, in theory, publicise to Facebook. However, whenever I do the URL shows up on FB as my original wordpress.com one, not as the domain name I bought. This happens regardless of whether or not I’m logged in to WordPress. When I enter my new domain name in Facebook’s Debugger, it says, “could not retrieve data from this URL.” How can I get Facebook to accept content from http://www.crowlas-ludgvanwi.org.uk?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 2, 2013 at 6:24 pm

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  1. Try flushing your FB cache but disconnect from FB first http://umairj.com/146/how-to-clear-facebook-shares-cache/

  2. Try the full reconnect procedure again detailed at http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-facebook including step 3 (removing the FB app), which is probably the most important step.

  3. See also publicize troubleshooting http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#troubleshooting

  Note: RSS Grafitti http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti can be used for posting to Facebook walls if you prefer. RSS Graffiti periodically checks the RSS/Atom feeds that you specify and posts any new entries it finds to the Facebook Walls that you specify. You can get any feed written on any wall (Facebook Profiles, Fan Pages, Groups, Events and Application Profile Pages). In fact, multiple feeds to multiple walls. You choose the combination.

  Please note that reconnecting Publicize with Facebook does not re-publicize missed posts, but it will work for future posts.

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  ljkjklqljkhwhljkfqjhklfqjlkqjlh · Member · May 2, 2013 at 6:26 pm

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  How did you map the domain to your site? through your domain provider? That’s essentially loading the page inside of a frame, not actually changing the url of the page.

  You’ll need to follow the directions at the page below for it to work properly:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/