Jetpack: Publicize: add filter to disable enhanced custom stories / embedded images

Created on 20 May 2014 · 52Comments · Source: Automattic/jetpack

Publicize changes the look of your Facebook updates if you publish Image Posts, or posts including very little text and only an image. When you do so, the image is uploaded to Facebook, and the Publicized post looks like an image you'd have directly uploaded to Facebook.

While this is great since it generates more Likes and Comments on Facebook, it doesn't bring as much traffic to your site as a regular shared link.
Some people also don't feel comfortable having their images uploaded to Facebook.

Would it be possible to add a filter allowing blog owners to use the default link format in their Facebook Publicized posts?

Suggested in 1844983-t

Cheesy Ticket Publicize [Type] Enhancement [Type] Happiness Request

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jeherve

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Just adding some info from 858135-zen which was my report:

When sending to Twitter, the post's featured image is included. This prevents Twitter Cards from working. Cards take a link, and if it has the right metadata, expands it into a rich media card (with the featured image, but also some more information). It also makes the click target bigger, and increases engagement. But you can't have an image attachment AND card. Best, I think, would be for Jetpack to realize that the site is properly set up to display Twitter Cards and then skip the featured image. But if it can't do it automatically, there should be a setting.

markjaquith on 20 Dec 2017

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kraftbj on 4 Jun 2014

kraftbj on 16 Jun 2014

Also suggested in 1908219-t

jeherve on 5 Aug 2014

:heart:

astralbodies on 23 Apr 2015

Also requested here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-ignoring-custom-text-on-facebook/page/2?replies=55&view=all#post-7004734

This became more important with the recent changes we've made in Publicize Next, as Facebook Page owners now would like to be able to revert to the default Publicize behaviour, i.e. no excerpt, just a title and a link.

jeherve on 29 May 2015

jeherve on 3 Jun 2015

Also suggested here: 2223806-t

mikeyarce on 11 Jun 2015

Also suggested in 2223024-t

chaselivingston on 12 Jun 2015

jeherve on 10 Jul 2015

jeherve on 22 Oct 2015

jeherve on 17 Nov 2015

Also in 2462468-t

kraftbj on 18 Dec 2015

jeherve on 18 Apr 2016

jeherve on 17 Jun 2016

jeherve on 22 Aug 2016

Suggested in 2788597-t

RCowles on 25 Aug 2016

Any movement on adding a filter for more control of the output? Even a simple checkbox in the Publicize settings that allows you to disable sending anything other than a link/title -- and not the excerpt + [ ### more word ] (should be "words" right?)

nocean on 28 Sep 2016

Also reported here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-featured-images-for-twitter/

In this case, the added image cuts off tweets.

jeherve on 3 Oct 2016

jeherve on 7 Oct 2016

As far as I can see, this isn't limited to "short" posts with a single image. It applies to posts with a gallery as well. Also, the example post below has 4 paragraphs of "real" text.

The entire gallery is uploaded to Facebook here, and what's more, the feature image (which is part of the gallery as well) is duplicated, appearing TWICE on Facebook. Not ideal.

Example: http://www.shuwenwu.com/2016/10/rush-creek-trail/ (my wife's site)

Resulting FB post: https://www.facebook.com/shulisawen/posts/1403113116384677:1?pnref=story

antermoia on 7 Oct 2016

How about make it follow the post format? if it text then just post the title and shared link, and if it photo it will post the photo with caption the title of post and link as text, and of course applied to other post format too.

yogasukma on 8 Oct 2016

As far as I can see, this isn't limited to "short" posts with a single image. It applies to posts with a gallery as well. Also, the example post below has 4 paragraphs of "real" text.

That's correct. Publicize supports 4 types of posts: images, galleries, videos, and standard.

As far as I can see, this isn't limited to "short" posts with a single image. It applies to posts with a gallery as well. Also, the example post below has 4 paragraphs of "real" text.

I can't seem to reproduce that issue on my test site at the moment. Did your wife upload the Featured Image separately, in addition to the image that's included in the gallery? If you'd like you can contact us via this form so we can take a closer look.

@ysupr While that would be great in theory, unfortunately a lot of themes don't actually support Post Formats. That would consequently make the feature only available to a subset of Jetpack users.

jeherve on 10 Oct 2016

Hello Jeremy, the featured image was not uploaded separately, in WP's Media Library it is the same photo that also appears in the gallery (ie. not a duplicate).

My guess would be that the two files are treated as different (by Facebook? by Jetpack?) because the featured image is a resized version (per the theme's media settings), while the other (in the gallery) is the original upload.

A simple switch for the user to enable/disable the enhanced stories would be most helpful to avoid these issues.

antermoia on 10 Oct 2016

Also requested here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharingpublicize-not-working-anymore/#post-8415480

jeherve on 10 Nov 2016

Also requested here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-twitter-summary/

jeherve on 7 Dec 2016

jeherve on 14 Mar 2017

Also suggested here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-share-format/#post-9522088

jeherve on 25 Sep 2017

suggested here 703420-zen
plus I vote for this!

omkarscode on 28 Sep 2017

858135-zen

lamdayap on 20 Dec 2017

Just adding some info from 858135-zen which was my report:

markjaquith on 20 Dec 2017

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Also requested in 877647-zen

jeherve on 3 Jan 2018

It's been 3 years now.
The answer is always "we're looking into it" or "it'll be added at some point".
At this point, I don't think it'll ever be done.

wolfheadtv on 1 Mar 2018

Another request in https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-post-excerpt-to-twitter/

KokkieH on 20 Mar 2018

1151786-zen

jeherve on 11 May 2018

Four years now. :-1:

antermoia on 28 May 2018

Request via Twitter

KokkieH on 8 Jun 2018

Another on Twitter

KokkieH on 29 Jun 2018

Another request for Twitter cards here #1357535-zd

donalirl on 21 Aug 2018

1645823-zen

tmmbecker on 15 Dec 2018

1660971-zen - Twitter Card request

htdat on 26 Dec 2018

Twitter card request: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/twitter-sharing-and-card-image-integration/

KokkieH on 4 Jan 2019

I would also like to see Publicize use Twitter cards instead of adding an image as an attachment. It already adds the necessary meta tags for the Twitter card support, it just needs to send the URL and stop sending the image.

ChrisBegley on 23 Jan 2019

This is also being discussed in 82800-zd-wordpressvip

BrookeDot on 25 Jun 2019

Via Twitter

KokkieH on 9 Jul 2019

Proposal: Publicize module must do the same as the Sharing Debugger (Facebook) - Card validator (twitter).
Now, the Publicize and Sharing modules work differently. See images:
1) Publicize: Wrong. Horrible. Please change the behavior of Publizie on Twitter.
2) Sharing: All right. Perfect. This is how the Publizie module should work.
3) Card validator (twitter).