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avatar last-phoenix
last-phoenix
7 Sep 2015

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Enable GZIP in administration panel.
  2. Add facebook share button to site.
  3. Try to share article.

Expected result

A picture with article title and article text appears in the facebook share pop up windowscreen shot 2015-09-07 at 12 11 54

Actual result

Only domain name with no article image or text appears in the facebook share pop up windowscreen shot 2015-09-07 at 12 08 54

While using facebook debug tool - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/ errors of missing og tags, like og:type, og:url and others are displayed. But when inspecting site source code, all the necessary og tags are present.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 3.4.3
I'm actually using K2 CCK v 2.6.9, but I doubt if this makes any difference.

Additional comments

This article helped me solve this problem - http://www.itoctopus.com/problems-with-sharing-links-of-a-joomla-website-on-facebook and the problem is described very clearly there.

avatar last-phoenix last-phoenix - open - 7 Sep 2015
avatar dgt41
dgt41 - comment - 7 Sep 2015

This is a known FACEBOOK problem. Quoting myself from #3643:

Turns out that Facebook scraps ALWAYS the first 40k of data of a given page. That means if your page is more than that (the compressed one) then it will be partially downloaded, and because is compressed it will be broken.

You can use the plugin from that PR or use another one that also solves this problem.
PLT decided long ago to not trying to solve Facebook’s problems in the CMS!

avatar last-phoenix
last-phoenix - comment - 7 Sep 2015

Thank you very much for pointing out the plugin!


This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/7831.

avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 7 Sep 2015

Closing issue as it's a Facebook bug.

avatar Bakual Bakual - change - 7 Sep 2015
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-09-07 17:54:39
Closed_By Bakual
avatar Bakual Bakual - close - 7 Sep 2015

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