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Facebook Open Graph Description Issues

Hi,

I’ve set up the Facebook plugin on a single WP install. The custom site description appears properly in the Open Graph tags in the page source code. Yet, when someone clicks the Like button, the description shows up as “Just Another WordPress Site.” I don’t even use that on the site…I’ve replaced it in the WP settings. So where is this description coming from?

I heard something about OG using the default if you don’t have an excerpt, but I’m not sure where I’d put an excerpt to represent the whole site.

Thanks,

Mark

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 5:48:05
  • Vladislav
    • Dead Eye Dev

    Hi,

    Thank you for sharing the link. I just verified your OpenGraph headers, and they seem to be fine – the description is not the default WP one. I was also able to “Recommend” a link, and it showed your custom site tagline, like we expected it to.

    I’d just like to clarify what is most likely to be the cause of the issue you just experienced. Facebook caches your pages when someone hits “Like” for a time period. Within this time period, Facebook will use this cached information for all subsequent “Like”s to construct the post for the wall. So, if your default site tagline got picked up by Facebook cache at some point, this is what the subsequent “Like”s will show until the cache is invalidated.

    The good news is, you can refresh the Facebook cache manually if this happens. You can do this by using their Debug (previously Linter) tool, here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

    Basically, what you do is just paste in the link to the page you wish to refresh the cache for and hit “Debug” button. This tool is also quite handy for debugging the rest of the OpenGraph headers.