How to fix Facebook Open Graph tags in new WordPress site
I am building a WordPress site behind the scenes while I have a "Coming Soon" page showing on the front end. I wanted to share the site with someone to show the landing page, and this showed up as the thumbnail:
This is obviously not what I want.
I went to developers.facebook.com and checked out the Open Graph properties. The following are the og:title, og:description, and og:markup_url:
og:title
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og:description
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og:markup_url (shortened for the sake of brevity)
<meta name="description" content="Bluehost - Top rated web hosting provider - Free 1 click installs ... />
<meta name="keywords" content="web hosting, provider, php hosting,web hosting,.../>
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />
I tried to edit the functions.php file of the default theme that is being used currently, which is the 2016 theme per suggestions on WordPress forums, but my theme isn't what's being shown, and it didn't work.
I also tried to add a plugin specifically for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Open Graph tags, but that didn't work either.
What file is being picked up by the crawlers that displays this information? I can't seem to find these meta tags.
Ok, this was easier than I thought. I noticed the last URL scrape was November 11, 2016. I clicked "Scrape Again" on the Facebook Sharing Debugger page, and the correct link came up.
So, it was a simple cache issue.
Thank you for the suggestions, friends!
