= Just rebuilt my website after years and now sharing the URL will not display a thumbnail or site description. I've had a Wordpress site hosted on Godaddy for years and always image and copy appeared when I shared the URL. Anyone know why it would stop? Have I forgotten a step? =

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That is a feature of opengraph, you may have had a plugin that added that functionality before.

Copy and paste your website's address into this tool to see how it will share.

httpsdevelopers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

As other commenters have pointed out, SEO plugins usually do this job (Yoast, Rankmath, etc.)

Also, do yourself a favor and get away from GoDaddy for a decent host :)

Usually the SEO plugins will have this ability where you can customize what the shareable link will display. I use Yoast.

Your site is using Yoast Seo. It is part of the homepage Seo dashboard at the bottom of the page where you can choose the description and icon for the site.

Off the top of my head it uses the featured image for the page, but I'm sure there is an option in the Yoast dashboard for a Google preview somewhere where you can change the image to whatever you want.

Tech support suggested Yeost, and while it's great for customizing the social media appearance of individual pages, it does nothing for my homepage. I know there's a way for the homepage to display a thumbnail and tagline when posting on social media, because my old Wordpress build did that. Unfortunately I don't remember what settings I used to make that happen, and nobody at Godaddy seems to know either, so I don't even know where the issue lies.

Shared the URL where? The image and copy are the responsibility of the third party where you shared it to to fetch this info from your website. You can assist them by providing meta description and opengraph tags, which you appear to have, in your  element. You should contact Facebook or whoever you are sharing it to for assistance. Sometime they have url sharing troubleshooters where you can test a link to see what they see and refresh their cache.

I've tried Facebook and Twitter and neither ones are able to display these. That's why I suspect it has something to do with my website. But I'll follow up with Facebook.

You're missing open graph data in the template.

Get og better share on social media - that will use the excerpt and featured image on the share.


Or as others have suggested get an seo plugin like yoast or all in one seo.

Wish I could edit my original post, but thanks everyone. Yoast fixed my social media problem!

To those bagging on Godaddy I totally agree, but I'm stuck with them for another year. If the mods don't mind me adding this question inside the post, which provider do you suggest for Wordpress sites? I don't need anything fancy, like an online store.

Have you checked for mixed content? httpswhynopadlock.com is what I usually use.

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