Title: Changing Facebook description when shared Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Changing Facebook description when shared * [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * (@tobbger) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/) * My blog has no text in the posts (it’s basically sound and image based) and therefore the description I get on Facebook when sharing a post is: * `You may use these HTML tags and attributes: ...` * I would like the description box to be empty. It should only view the post title and the image from the post (each post has it’s own image). I’ve tried to download plugins like WP Open Graph to sort this out, but I can’t get it to work. * What’s the easiest way to only change the description text for each post when sharing it on Facebook? I want the headline and the image to be what the post has already. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [odie2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/odie2/) * (@odie2) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382486) * As I know you can’t have empty description, alternatively you could exclude description on Facebook when you are sharing url (by X button on hover). * Also, it’s very bad for SEO and Accessibility that you have no text on site. For search engines and text readers your content just don’t exists. You should consider adding short note or at least `alt` attribute for images and sound. * You could change description for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter with [Yoast SEO plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)( in post’s edit you will have new box with 3 tabs – read more on [official website](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/)). * Thread Starter [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * (@tobbger) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382582) * Thank you! * I’m using both `title` attribute for the hyperlinks and `alt` attribute for the images, but I’ll look into further optimizing the content for SEO and Accessibility purposes. * If I can’t leave the description empty (however, like you said, this is possible manually by just clicking the description box and emptying it when sharing on Facebook), would it be possible to have a standard text for every post? Maybe simply describing the blog or whatever. In that case I would get: * **Unique post title from post being shared** **_Unique image from post being shared_** _Description of the site (“This is a blog with sound and images”)._ * Sorry for being slow, but how would I do this with the Yoast plugin? Or is there an instruction for this on their official website? * Thread Starter [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * (@tobbger) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382602) * Okay! I’ve managed to change the description with the Yoast plugin. It didn’t seem to work at first, but then I realized that the changes applies only to new posts. Does anyone have any clue on how to apply this to posts created before the change? * [odie2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/odie2/) * (@odie2) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382611) * You could set default descriptions and title in **Yoast SEO -> Social**, however if social/search engine accept it, it depends from it (for example Google prefers get description automatically from your website instead read meta tag). * Thread Starter [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * (@tobbger) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382618) * Thank you! Yeah, I got that working through the **Yoast SEO -> Social** tab. But now the problem is that I only can get this working for posts that are created after these changes. Is there any way to apply the OG settings for older posts? * [odie2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/odie2/) * (@odie2) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382620) * Are you sure? I can’t check it at the moment, but I think defaults should be set for older posts with no specific attributes set. * Please check your posts’ source (Ctrl+U when reading post on website) for **` meta property="og:`** by Ctrl+F. If you are testing og tags with Facebook it may doesn’t showed you right tags if you linked that url before so Facebook already cached box with data in your browser (then try close each part o box and after some refresh it should be downloaded again). * If it seems like problem with `og` tags in source, then you should ask on [Yoast SEO’s forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo) are you can apply it to old posts. I am not using defaults descriptions or titles as I have always content in posts and pages, so I can’t tell you more. * Thread Starter [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * (@tobbger) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382623) * Ah, sorry. The problem is only appearing in posts that’s probably in the browser’s cache. So it should not happen for any of my visitors. * Thank you for all your help! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Changing Facebook description when shared’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [tobbger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbger/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-facebook-description-when-shared/#post-6382623) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics