Title: Plugin not pulling the data-pin-description
Last modified: May 9, 2021

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# Plugin not pulling the data-pin-description

 *  [juliearoundtheglobe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliearoundtheglobe/)
 * (@juliearoundtheglobe)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-pulling-the-data-pin-description/)
 * Hello,
 * When pinning images from my website, the plugin has stopped pulling the data-
   pin-description, it doesn’t even add the alt text. On Pinterest, the description
   is left empty.
 * Has Pinterest changed something or is it the plugin not working properly?
 * Thank you for your help,
    Julie
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-not-pulling-the-data-pin-description%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [mediavine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediavine/)
 * (@mediavine)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-pulling-the-data-pin-description/#post-14596934)
 * HEy [@juliearoundtheglobe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliearoundtheglobe/),
 * Thanks so much for reaching out to us about this! We’ve noticed this happening
   as well with Grow Social along with a few other social sharing plugins. As far
   as we can tell, Grow Social is applying the Pinterest Descriptions as it should
   but it looks like something has changed with how Pinterest pulls those descriptions
   on their end.
 * We’ve reached out to Pinterest for clarification on if something like `data-pin-
   descriptions` are being deprecated but have yet to receive a concrete answer 
   if that’s the case. As of now, it looks like Pinterest is favoring OpenGraph 
   meta tags set in the post.
 * For example, in the page you sent over above Pinterest is pulling the descriptions
   from the `og:description` meta tag that is being set by Grow Social. Since we
   don’t have a way in the non-Pro version to update this, it looks like you’re 
   using Rank Math to set these meta tags.
 * You could go to Grow’s Settings page and under the Misc section toggle on the
   setting ‘Disable Open Graph Meta Tags’ so that the descriptions are instead pulled
   from Rank Math.
 * Hope that helps!

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