ksscheidegger
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Yes, permalink is set to post ID. But WordPress gives a dire warning not to change it, so I won’t. I will continue with the solution I have.
Deepak,
Thanks for the reply. The form is correctly set to email verification.
I was able to solve the problem by hard-coding the link to the page ID of my login page, like this: {{home_url}}/?page_id=nnn&ur_token={{email_token}}
where nnn is the numerical ID of the login page.
Hard coding a number rather than using a variable is not optimum practice, but at least it works.
I had a similar problem and was glad to find this answer. It worked. Thanks.
I think that a setting having no effect unless it is set in more than one place qualifies as a “bug” in need of fixing.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by ksscheidegger.
Update 2. The 300×450 image looks fine in “new Facebook.”
Update. I finally got a marginally acceptable result by using a 200×300 or 300×450 image. Facebook still crops the picture awkwardly, but at least it doesn’t switch to horizontal.
Very strange. A vertical image with those dimensions looks correct in Facebook’s Sharing Debugger. It also looks correct in the preview before I post it. But then after posting it changes to a horizontal image zoomed in to the center of the vertical image.
The og:image width and height tags on the post are correct. I have Googled this problem extensively and can’t find anything on it elsewhere.
Thank you for those suggestions. Shortening the title helped, but not enough. I would love to use a vertical image. But how? No matter what size or shape of image I use, Facebook forces it into the large, wide, horizontal image that hogs the space and crowds out my description (which is far more important than the image for most posts).
If use a square or vertical image, Facebook just zooms and crops it to be a wide, horizontal one.
This is driving me nuts. Any suggestions on fixing the image shape would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the response. The Facebook Guide simply says to use the og:description tag, and then it says, “A brief description of the content, usually between 2 and 4 sentences. This will displayed below the title of the post on Facebook.” My descriptions are generally shorter than 4 sentences, yet they almost never display in full and sometimes do not display at all.
Here is an example: https://www.facebook.com/CriminalJusticeLegalFoundation/posts/1436943726505824?__tn__=-R The linked blog post has an og:description tag with a description of three sentences. Yet it does not display at all.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by ksscheidegger.
Thank you for replying. We eventually figured out that the parameter .post-standard .post-inner padding-left had been hard coded at 230px to provide the space for the unwanted image.
The problem was fixed by copying the .post-standard .post-inner initialization code into style.css in the child theme and changing padding-left to 30px.
- This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by ksscheidegger.
- This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by ksscheidegger.