If the post content has a shortcode in the first line, the twitter card description ends up being blank and doesn't validate.

[jrthib]

This can be seen on line 66 of utilities.php

[jmau111]

Hi, thanks for your contribution but the regexp already removes any shortcode from desc.

[jrthib]

See if you can replicate my issue then. We were having an issue where we had a [caption][/caption] shortcode as the first line of content in post_content. The regexp would strip the code, then the excerpt would be a blank string in the twitter:description meta tag which would cause our post to not validate. I changed the file locally on our site to reflect the changes in my pull request and it fixed the issue.

Thanks for the response by the way :+1:

[jmau111]

Oki doki thanks.

[jrthib]

Also, if it helps, the shortcode we were using along with its attributes ended up being longer than 200 characters.

[jmau111]

But if you have only a shortcode that is normal it's blank. Can't replicate what you're saying

[jrthib]

The page we saw the issue on had a lot of text content in addition to the short code. I'll replicate our environment to see if it happens there, if it does, I'll send over a URL for you to check it out as well.

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But if you have only a shortcode that is normal it's blank. Can't replicate what you're saying

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[jmau111]

You can use ifferent way to solve blank desc issue e.g custom fields or SEO plugins desc with WP SEO or All in One SEO.

[jrthib]

I think fixing the problem by installing another plugin is not ideal.

[jmau111]

Hope for the best. I can only fix what regards the plugin not other stuffs that might be related to its use or other plugins. The point is my plugin is a good additional feature for thoses very popular SEO plugins.

If you want to publish pages with only shortcodes and no content I do not see how to help you. There is a snippet with excerpt field if your theme is using it : https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/other_notes/

[jrthib]

Please view the source on this page. This is a clean Wordpress installation with JM Twitter Cards installed. You can see that the description field is blank. This causes twitter to ignore the Twitter card when posting a link to the page.

http://twittercards.ironhorsewebsolutions.com/2014/05/addiction-researcher-to-receive-faculty-recognition-award/

<!-- JM Twitter Cards by Julien Maury 5.2.2 -->
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@TweetPressFr">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@TweetPressFr">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Addiction Researcher to Receive Faculty Recognition Award">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="">
<meta name="twitter:image:src" content="https://g.twimg.com/Twitter_logo_blue.png">
<!-- /JM Twitter Cards -->

This meta block fails Twitter card validation, if you run the URL here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator

[jmau111]

While I can see it I need to know what is precisely set for this particular post. Do you mind making a screenshot ?

[jrthib]

Feel free to log in: http://twittercards.ironhorsewebsolutions.com/wp-admin

[jmau111]

This forum is public please for your safety do not give credentials.

[jmau111]

I recommand you to remove this access since it has been publically given. I'll see what I can do to fix this.

[jrthib]

Thanks for checking. The fix that worked for me was to add strip_shortcodes() back into the code as I showed in my pull request from earlier.