After update new articles will be shared w/ intro text, not meta descr

* In the JFBConnect backend > Channels area, please open up the channel for autoposting and let me know the values for 'Autopost Plugins' and 'Autopost Objects'.
* Which Open Graph plugins do you have enabled?
* If you have objects selected, please go into JFBConnect backend > Social Meta > Objects area and check that the selected object is published and the Category and Descriptions are still set correctly.

This should help us start to figure out the problem.

-Melissa

Can you try disabling the Custom Object and JomSocial open graph plugins as a test. Then, use the Facebook URL debug tool to rescan your page. Make sure you use the "Scrape Again" button so that it fetches the page again. Let us know if that fixes things.

Either way, let us know a URL that is having issues as well as the description you'd expect and we can help investigate further.

Thanks,
Alex

If I go to that page, it brings me to www.deepershades.net/dsoh-shows/dsoh-442...y-culoe-de-song.html which has no og:image tag on the page, hence the error. Alex only mentioned disabling the Custom and JomSocial open graph plugins, not the Open Graph - content plugin. If this is a normal Joomla article, please enable the 'Open Graph - Content' plugin again. When enabled, JFBConnect can attempt to pick an image to set for the og:image tag. Without the plugin, you'd have to manually insert the SCOpenGraph easy-tag to get an image tag added or set a default image in the JFBConnect backend > Social Meta > Defaults area.

-Melissa

I see. You can re-enable the 'Open Graph - Content' plugin and then create an object in the JFBConnect > Social Meta > Objects area for articles. In the object, you can specify that the description is taken from the meta description instead of article text. If you've previously just enabled the plugin, but had not created an object, then JFBConnect tries to use the article text by default.

Not intending to make you go in circles

The Open Graph - Content plugin is what is inserting the open graph image tag and making that work. However, the default of the Open Graph - Content plugin is to set the og:description tag to the first words of the article. Knowing that disabling it changes the behavior helps us understand things quite a bit.

I know you mentioned you created a new Custom Object. I think that's the way to go. You'll want to create a new Content - Article object and set it to the "Root" category. In the settings side, set the description to come from the Meta Description. That should do what you're looking for and apply it to all articles on your site. Test though and let us know how that goes.

Thanks,
Alex