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Metadata from Blog 5 "Meta and Social" section not being used by Facebook
I've add metadata to my blog posts, but when I share the post on Facebook by copying in the blog post URL it isn't populating the title, image, and description fields as I'd expected. For example, I have the following in my post:
<meta property="og:site_name" content="MCHT" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.mcht.org/mchtnews/post.php?s=2015-11-18-record-crop-at-erickson-fields" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Record Crop at Erickson Fields" />
<meta property="og:description" content="In 2015, MCHT’s Teen Agricultural Crew (TAg Crew) set a new production record at our Erickson Fields Preserve in Rockport, shattering last year’s total with a 76% increase. Thanks to the bounty, the crew distributed more than 20,000 pounds of fresh vegetables throughout the community!" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.mcht.org/perch/resources/ericksonharvestfbcover-w1200.jpg" />
I would expect the resulting FB post to use the og;title, og:description, and og:image to populate a post, but it seems to be using the meta name tags and the first image in the post instead.
Is this expected behavior?
Have you tested it with Facebook's debug tool?
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/