Sharing in Facebook Not Showing Blogger Post Description (Solved)

 By Raju on May 28, 2011
http://www.simplebloggertutorials.com/2011/05/sharing-in-facebook-not-showing-blogger.html

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why Facebook does not show the description of the post when it has been liked or shared by the readers”

t Facebook pulls out the description of the post from the first paragraph found and is determined by the paragraph tags. It is represented by <p></p> tags. Thus, a paragraph will be created when it will be formatted as the example below in Edit HTML mode: 

<p>The para starts.</p>

 you generally press “Enter” key on your keyboard. This creates line breaks (<br> tags) instead of <p>tags. As a result Facebook cannot extract the description from the post.  

Option 1

Step 1: Go to Blogger’s dashboard > Design > Edit HTML tab and check “Expand Widget Template”. 

Step 2: Find <data:post.body/> and add the <p> tags as shown below: 

<p><data:post.body/></p>

 Step 3: Save your template. 

<data:post.body/> is the part where your actual post is displayed which is written in Post Editor. Adding paragraph tags ensures that whole of the post body remains in between these tags. As a result, you can write normally within the post editor and no manual formatting is needed. As you publish the post, it will automatically be inserted within the paragraph tags.

But there is a problem also. These tags will break in any div tags are used within the post editor. For example, adding images to your post in Compose mode will break the tags at that position. If you want to use this method and also want to add an image to your post then you have to write the first para, at least containing more than 150-200 words and then you can add the image for your post. In this way you will get the first paragraph with proper tags. 

Remember

When you are writing a new post from post editor, find Options, check Press "Enter" for line breaks and click Done or Save. This is one time process and ensures that you don't see any<br> tags in HTML mode.

Facebook scraps the page every 24 hours, so, once your post has been shared or “Liked”, it would automatically add the description from blogger post. Thus, it’s solved.