Sharing a page on Facebook - changing preview information

 
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How do I change what information is shown on this preview when sharing to Facebook? Specifically, the Meet <animal>, and the text here under the same words (note, I already changed this. It had said Meet <animal> as well.


 

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      Hi Deb,

      Facebook pulls the information directly from the animals profile from your listing.  This is usually just the words:  "Meet Cat - An Adoptable pet Cat."  This has to do with the OpenGraph settings in the website and the way that Facebook imports that data from the OpenGraph meta tags.  

      You can see everything that Facebook is importing by going to the debugger here and entering the URL you are attempting to share:

      https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/

      Because of the way the pages are auto generated, there really is no simple way to change that meta tag without affecting every other listing you might share.  It does create an interesting suggestion for a future improvement to our website service, though.  To have the ability to change the og:description meta tag in a future release might be quite beneficial.  

      Are you familiar with our online issues tracking system JIRA?  You can use the same username and password you use for this Q&A section to access JIRA and make a feature request for our service:

      JIRA - Bugs, Improvements, Feature Requests

       

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