Sharing Blog Post to Facebook

andreawk · ‎01-22-2017

I can't seem to share my blog post with Facebook. First I got a 404 error message. I shortened the URL--which I'm not really happy about and don't know if that's necessary--and now it posts to Facebook, but the photo or partial text aren't visible in the preview. The reader has to click on the title to see that. What's the solution? I suspect that there's an error in the URL or post settings, but I can't figure it out! Thanks.

Adam7 · ‎01-23-2017

What's the URL you're trying to share to Facebook, @andreawk? I'll take a look.

andreawk · ‎01-23-2017

It's akotula.com

Thank you.

Adam7 · ‎01-23-2017

When I use Facebook's debug tool to check your most recent blog post, it looks like it's getting both the image and text:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.akotula.com%2Fblog%2Fspecial...

andreawk · ‎01-23-2017

Thanks. I published it again and it showed up. But here's a follow-up question. After I got the 404 error message, I shortened the URL to "special education" from "Do We Need Special Education." Is there a character limit? Was it just a fluke that I got an error message from the longer URL?

Adam7 · ‎01-23-2017

There isn't a limit that I know of - I'm not sure why it gave you a 404 before, but just having a longer URL shouldn't have caused one.