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10 years 1 month ago #42204 by brirem
Do you understand what Facebook is telling me here: Meta with name instead of property: The meta tag on the page was specified with name 'author', which matches a configured property of this object type. It will be ignored unless specified with the meta property attribute instead of the meta name attribute.
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10 years 1 month ago #42209 by alzander
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Yes. When an Open Graph tag is set, it should look like:
<meta property="og:author" content="123456">
Where the 123456 is the user's Facebook ID.

Many extensions will set a tag on the page that looks like:
<meta name="author" content="Alex Andreae">
That's a valid tag and *not* a Facebook Open Graph tag. However, Facebook will still try to parse it if an og:author tag isn't set. The warning is that the alternate tag above should use property= instead of name=. Ultimately though, it doesn't matter, since the tag won't be correct since it's not using a Facebook User Id... so it's proper for them to ignore the tag.. and throw a few warnings in the process.

Supporting the og:author tag is something we have planned for a future update as well, so you know.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex
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10 years 1 month ago #42218 by brirem
Replied by brirem on topic Open Graph Object Debugger
Thanks for the info. So, that bad tag is coming from some other component in Joomla, and nothing related to my page tags and SourceCoast?
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10 years 1 month ago #42227 by alzander
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Correct. JFBConnect won't add that tag. Also, I'm not going to say it's a 'bad' tag, just one that Facebook thinks is bad. It's actually fine to have on the page and shouldn't cause any problems.. it just doesn't give Facebook any more information about the page.

I hope that helps explain, and best of luck,
Alex
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