sharing on facebook with lorem yada yada

[jmcpinto]

Hi,

 

when I try to share a product in facebook (either copy past the URL or use a module like addthis) the facebook entry apears with the "lorem yada yada" thingy.

 

if I try the same with a product from the default catalog (ipod) the correct description appears.

 

my custom product has all fields filled (small description, full description, in multiple languages).

 

I can't find where facebook is taking the lorem stuff from to change it there

 

any help? my business will heavily rely on facebook marketing and I can't use it like this.

 

Thanks,

JPinto

[Dh42]

Google the "facebook linter" and from there enter you page into it, it will show you exactly what data it is extracting and from where. 

[jmcpinto]

not working

 

while on facebook linter I get og fields for description correctly matching the website (nothing on lorem ipsilum)

using addthis or posting url into facebook gives the random lorem ipsilum or even random images (ad image instead of product image)

 

when I say random is really random! if I repeat this long enough sometimes I get the correct image/description.

 

really puzzling me....

[Dh42]

Can you post a link to the site?

[jmcpinto]

check  this link to a product that yesterday was not working and today it is:

http://www.johnlittlechicken.com/wstore/pt/bodys/8-john-littlechicken-rock-roll-body.html

and this one for a product that today is still not working but in linter everything is fine:

http://www.johnlittlechicken.com/wstore/pt/james-crocket/9-james-crocket-body.html (text incorrect)

http://www.johnlittlechicken.com/wstore/en/james-crocket/9-james-crocket-body.html (text and image incorrect)

 

(the second one does not have descriptions filled, I was testing if that was related)

 

Thanks,

Jpinto

[Dh42]

There is a module in your theme called something like slide top content, that is where facebook is getting the lorem ipsum data from. As for why it is displaying that information my best guess is that you need to fill in the short description field of the product, because the og:description is blank and the addthis module is just grabbing the first on page text, which happens to be the lorem ipsum. 

[jmcpinto]

great advices DH42, it should work. Many thanks for that.

 

but... grrr.. I still have the same anoying behavior which doesn't make any sense.

 

I've now disabled the hidden module with such content, but on facebook the behavior is the same.

looking at source of page I can't even find word lorem anymore.

 

addthis and facebook, include lorem ipsolum

facebook linter behaves correctly as expected

 

I'll try changing browsers, clean caches, restart. could be something on client side.

[jmcpinto]

nothing on client side. changing browsers, clean cache, etc. is useless.

 

but I got a new finding on facebook side.

 

on facebook linter: after I click on the link saying "Scraped URL See exactly what our scraper sees for your URL"

the facebook integration for my URL starts working correctly.

 

Seems like facebook has some cached old version of my URL (possibly from the first attempt while still with "slide top content" module) and hitting the scraper link clears this cached version.

 

I'll try creating new products to see the behavior.

It will be really bad if I need to 'scrap' all my products one by one and for each language....

[Dh42]

You will have to use the linter to clear out all of the cached pages, facebook caches pages, but the linter will clear them.