How To Change Facebook Link Preview for Wordpress Posts & Pages (2023 Update)

How To Change Facebook Link Preview for Wordpress Posts & Pages (2023 Update)

How To Change Facebook Link Preview for Wordpress Posts & Pages (2023 Update)

If you have ever posted a link to your #Wordpress website on Facebook, you may have noticed that the link preview that shows up doesn’t look great.

One of my clients asked me how to change the way link previews show up when shared on social media. I’m sure many of you have experienced the same problem.

Her question was: “Hi David, do you know how can I get Facebook to show some pretty photo from this page when I share a link instead of just a boring cut off logo?”

The good news is, there is a simple way to fix link previews and thumbnails and even specify the title and description that go with it.

You can fix your Facebook link previews it in a matter of minutes using a free Wordpress plugin called Yoast SEO: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/w…

After installing it on your Wordpress site, simply scroll to the bottom of a page or post to update the Facebook preview to the way you want it to look.

You can change:
1. Facebook preview title
2. Facebook preview description
3. Facebook preview image

It’s important to know that Facebook may still use the old preview, even after updating. To fix this and inform Facebook about the updated link preview, head to the Facebook Debugger Tool: https://developers.facebook.com/tools…

Then paste the link you want to update into the URL field and hit ‘Debug’. Facebook will now scrape your page again and look for an updated image, title and description.

From now on, Facebook will display your new link preview wherever it is shared.

As always, let me know if you need any help or post any questions you have in the comments below. 🙌

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0.03 -> Hi guys, it's David here, and I just  received a question from one of you  
7.5 -> regarding the following problem: Sometimes,  you want to share a page on social media,  
14.1 -> like your homepage. So you grab the link, go to  Facebook, paste it in, but the preview of the page  
23.55 -> doesn't look very pleasant. There's definitely  room for improvement. So the question is,  
30.9 -> how do you change what it looks like when  you share a certain page or post on Facebook?
36.36 -> The easiest way to do this is by using a plug-in  called Yoast SEO. If you haven't already installed  
44.91 -> it, you would go to your WordPress website,  under plugins, and click "add new." This is a  
55.38 -> free plug-in, so you can simply install it. In the  search bar, you would type in "Yoast SEO" and that  
70.74 -> should bring it up. If you haven't installed  it, click on "install now" and activate it.
78.63 -> Once that's done, you can scroll to the bottom  of any page (this is the homepage editor),  
87.12 -> and you'll find this new Yoast SEO box. Usually,  Yoast SEO helps you rank better on Google,  
97.14 -> so you can influence what it looks like in  the Google search results. But it also has  
102.6 -> this tab called "social," and if you click on  that, it allows you to specify a new title,  
109.41 -> description, and image just for  Facebook. This is what we want to do.
114.81 -> Upload your own image and change the description  specifically for Facebook. Instead of something  
122.46 -> like the old preview, now if you share the same  link, it would look like the new one, for example.  
129 -> It's really easy to do; you just need to  have the Yoast SEO plugin, scroll to the  
133.29 -> bottom of any page or blog post, and then you can  specify what you want it to look like on Facebook.
138.6 -> You might also need to update the link if  you've shared it before. Facebook "scrapes"  
148.92 -> your website for images and descriptions  and saves it on their server. So even  
156.12 -> after you've changed the image, the old  one might still show up. To update that,  
161.94 -> there's a tool from Facebook called  "Sharing Debugger." You can go to Google,  
168.93 -> type in "Facebook Sharing Debugger," and the  page will come up, or go directly to the URL.
178.77 -> Once you're there, you can simply  grab your updated link, put it in,  
187.44 -> and Facebook will scrape the website again,  looking for updated images and descriptions. Now,  
196.95 -> everywhere people share it, the new  image and descriptions will show up.
202.59 -> I hope you found this helpful. Give it a  
205.2 -> thumbs up if you did. Thanks for  watching, and I'll see you soon.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Re5GDumZzM