Question

I am having humbling issues with Facebook and WordPress

I am using
WP ver 3.4.1
FB plugin Version 1.0.2

I Installed the plugin. Created a Facebook app.

What is happening is I am sharing the page on Facebook using Facebooks share button, send button, and subscribe button. Even if I copy and paste the post I get the following in the feed description.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <​a href=”” title=””> <​abbr title=””> <​acronym >title=””> <​b> <​blockquote cite=””> <​cite> <​code> <​del datetime=””> <​em> <​i> <​q cite=””> <​>strike> <​strong>

I think it is in a Facebook PHP file, but I looked there. I am kind of stumped to say he least.

Answer 1

Yes. For some reason the Facebook for WordPress plugin pulls in the comment instructions as the default description it uses in the og:meta tags, especially when there is no text associated with your posts or no excerpt set.

On my sites, I use the Facebook for WordPress plugin for connectivity, but I’ve given up letting it generate my meta tags. I use WordPress SEO instead, since you can specify what text should be in your description, titles, etc. There are other plugins that also do the same.

To inhibit the Facebook for WordPress meta tags, add this to your theme’s functions.php:

//Remove the Facebook for WP tags until they get their s**t together.
remove_action('wp_head', 'fb_add_og_protocol', 10);