# Social tags not updating \[solved!\]

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739 "2020-09-15T18:08:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/1 "2020-09-15T18:08:11Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![teefers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/teefers/32/8173_2.png) [@teefers](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/teefers)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/2 "2020-09-15T18:50:35Z")

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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](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/facebook-og-meta-property-tags/13432/10):
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> 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](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…

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**Author:** ![film-editor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/film-editor/32/981_2.png) [@film-editor](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/film-editor)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/3 "2020-09-15T21:13:55Z")

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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](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/)**

 ![Screen Shot 2020-09-15 at 2.09.22 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/9/d/9def05932a8ff0397d21f41a2984bed2792bf57e.png)

and

> **[Post Inspector](https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/)**
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> Get insights into how your content shows up on LinkedIn with Post Inspector.

 ![Screen Shot 2020-09-15 at 2.11.31 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/f/e/fe76e4e79ab503a2aaf5288c2b6e7d3687657a74.png)

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**Author:** ![teefers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/teefers/32/8173_2.png) [@teefers](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/teefers)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/4 "2020-09-15T23:02:01Z")

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

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**Author:** ![film-editor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/film-editor/32/981_2.png) [@film-editor](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/film-editor)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/5 "2020-09-15T23:21:51Z")

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Film Editor

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-tags-not-updating-solved/34739/6 "2020-10-16T09:22:03Z")

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