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Bas de Bruin
Bas de Bruin

Reputation: 17

Linkedin preview states: "Cannot display preview. You can post as is, or try another link." when entering link to my Wordpress site

When I enter the link to my WordPress site babid-management.nl or any post page within that site (e.g https://babid-management.nl/blog/new-autopost-test/) I get the message "Cannot display preview. You can post as is, or try another link." popped up.

I checked LinkedIn support pages and can confirm the OpenGraph meta properties are available (see also results from OpenGraphCheck.com at http://opengraphcheck.com/result.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbabid-management.nl%2Fblog%2Fnew-autopost-test%2F#.WfmbiWiPKUk

What else could prevent LinkedIn to pull this post from my website?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10442

Answers (2)

Shadi Alnamrouti
Shadi Alnamrouti

Reputation: 13248

It seems your server is blocking the LinkedIn Bot agent:

Apache (such as in Wordpress):

If you have Better Security Plugin installed, you need to remove the following line in your .htaccess file

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Link [NC,OR]

IIS (such as ASP.Net)

In your web.config file if you have a blocking rule based on HTTP_USER_AGENT, remove the following line:

<add input="{HTTP_USER_AGENT}" pattern="^Link" />

Upvotes: 1

Mary Maggie OBrien
Mary Maggie OBrien

Reputation: 11

I don't know if you're still working on this Bas... But I did find that someone did a pretty extensive step by step relating to oembed code interfering or preventing linkedin.

https://pmig.at/2017/10/26/linkedin-link-preview-for-wordpress/

Suggests installing Disable Embeds plugin to fix the problem.

Upvotes: 0

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