Topic-icon Open Graph showing website name instead of article name...

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Hey there!

Some of my articles are showing up on facebook without titles, but with the site name where the titles should be. This has just changed recently. Any obvious reason you can think of?

developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/o...-twitter-at-its-best
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There could be a few reasons for that. The <title> tag on that page is what the og:title tag is being set to, so it's possible that something is setting your standard meta title tags incorrectly on the page and that should be investigated.

As for JFBConnect itself, since you're using Joomla Content, please ensure you have the Open Graph - Content plugin enabled. That should be able to take the actual article title and use it for the og:title tag. With that disabled, JFBConnect will use whatever is in the meta title tag, since we won't know enough about the extension being used for the current page to generate a better tag.

Hopefully, that's all it is and enabling the content plugin will get you going. If not though, let us know, and we'll gladly help investigate further.

Thanks,
Alex
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Thank you Alex. Open Graph - content was indeed disabled, but enabling it did not change anything.
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Plot thickens, if I disable JFBConnect, the og:title is correct in the facebook debugger and everything works correctly. Which settings should I start by looking at?
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That's very interesting. I'm not sure why a) JFBConnect would be using the meta title instead of the Joomla article title and b) what would be happening when you disable JFBConnect. From your picture, I can't completely tell, but it seems like something else is setting an Open Graph tag on your page. Do you know what extension that would be?

If you can, please feel free to Private Message me super admin credentials for your site and we can investigate further into what's going on.

Thanks,
Alex
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All done, please take a look when you can
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...and this link to the same article has 169 likes.

medialux.com/index.php/39-news/company/2...-twitter-at-its-best
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Sorry for the delay. This took a bit of investigation to determine a fix. I've updated your Open Graph content plugin so that it always properly sets the Open Graph title to the article's title.

As for the different Like count, unfortunately, there's not a way to fix that with JFBConnect. Your site is setup in a way that there are multiple different menu items and modules that will generate a different URL for each article. JFBConnect does try to generate the 'canonical' version of the URL to tell Facebook to associate the Like's with. However, JFBConnect doesn't have any way to tell which is the correct URL based off the current menu item and thinks each is correct.

You'd have the same issue without JFBConnect as those URLs are different. We do clean the URL of lots of common issues that can cause problems, but we just can't make them all unique.

In that case, you should either setup a redirection from the other 2 variants to the one with all the Likes, as that's obviously the one that users go to the most. Alternatively, you can install an SEF extension which will ensure that there is only one URL for each piece of content.

I hope that helps explain. The fix for the Open Graph title will be in the next release, so you shouldn't have to worry about this going forward.

Thanks,
Alex
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