Social tags not updating [solved!]

[film-editor (Eric Pomert)]

I’m on Mac OS 10.15.6. All my RW8 plugins seem up-to-date.

One of my rapidweaver pages (RW8) is for a class I teach where the social tags need to be changed from time to time. When I change the image and description under “Generate Social Tags,” neither will update when I post the page link to FB, LinkedIn.

I have tried:

• using disk utility first aid
• restarting the Mac and republishing entire site

I’m not remotely a programmer - is there a simple fix for this?

Thanks.

[teefers (Doug Bennett)]

Facebook stores this data in their own database. You are probably seeing what they have cached.

You can have them re-scrap your page.

Don’t know about LinkedIn.

Have a look here for the steps for FB.

Facebook og meta property tags

If you are typing them by hand, then you can use what David(@thang) gave you. If you are doing open graph tags, then one of the tags that FB requires is the URL (different per page). I find it much easier just to type them in and edit then pastes the meta tags them self in the head section. Here is the facebook Doc on the subject: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters FB tends to move the Documentation around, but it should give you some samples and explain each tag prope…

[film-editor (Eric Pomert)]

SOLVED!
Thanks SO much, @teefers ! Fastest solution I’ve ever gotten.

I rescraped on FB and LinkedIn and all was updated without going into any further code in Rapidweaver.

Here are the links:

Sharing Debugger - Meta for Developers

and

Post Inspector

[teefers (Doug Bennett)]

Glad you got it working. You will need to re-scrape every time you change if you want it reflected right away.

[film-editor (Eric Pomert)]

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