Social media previews

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  mkjackie99 · Member · Jul 30, 2021 at 2:06 am

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  Hi, I recently changed the name of my blog. But my social media previews for my site still show the old name. How do I fix this? Thanks.

  Site: https://mrsjackieo.wordpress.com.
  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jul 30, 2021 at 8:14 am

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  Hi there!

  Where exactly did you change the name of the blog? Have you updated it in the Settings here?
  Do I understand correctly that you still see the old title when sharing posts on social media? Or are you concerned that previously shared links haven’t changed?

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  mkjackie99 · Member · Jul 30, 2021 at 2:42 pm

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  Let me check the settings link. Thx. And yes to first question on title, no to previous posts question. Be back in a sec. Ok it was changed in the Settings. Let me try another share, see what happens

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  mkjackie99 · Member · Jul 30, 2021 at 2:49 pm

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  Nope, still displays the old title. Here is a screenshot
  https://photos.app.goo.gl/gXkdXQ3ccNYwhNYW6
  I’m not sure what I’m missing here. 🙄

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 30, 2021 at 6:12 pm

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  Hm, that screenshot album is empty, but if you’re referring to Facebook specifically, there’s a way to fix that. :)

  Facebook has a cache that refreshes itself at a time period they don’t specify, but this should clear up automatically eventually.

  If you want to clear that up manually now, you can by running the link through https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and on the results page, you’ll see a “Scrape Again” button. Click that to refresh Facebook’s cache.

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  mkjackie99 · Member · Jul 30, 2021 at 9:35 pm

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  Hi, Facebook seems to be okay with the new name, but when I share my WordPress site address on Twitter it still shows the original name.

  I’m not sure how to show it if the screenshot won’t display.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 30, 2021 at 9:43 pm

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  Ah ok, Twitter also has a cache that will refresh at an undisclosed time.

  They don’t make it clear in their documentation, but I believe you can similarly manually refresh their cache by validating your site via https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

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  mkjackie99 · Member · Jul 31, 2021 at 12:39 am

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  Thanks – I’ll try that. If it doesn’t work, oh well. Why sweat the small stuff?

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 31, 2021 at 2:00 am

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  @mkjackie99 They will clear their own cache after some time anyway (not sure when — a few hours, a few days?) but yeah, I’ve personally had luck with their card validator. Enjoy your weekend!