#1008 – &#039 showing up in Facebook due to og:description

Hi,

I have been notified by a site visitor that when he was trying to paste a link into Facebook the descriptive text Facebook showed him had '&#039' shown. I took it that the ' character was being replaced by &#039 code.

I looked at the page and the indeed the og:description tag had these codes in there where the ' should be.

I'm not 100% sure whether this is being caused by K2 or SH404SEF, i.e. whether K2 is presenting the formatted meta description to SH404SEF wrong or whether SH404SEF plugins are generating this og:description from scratch and not formatting this text correctly?

There is no dedicated meta description in SH404SEF defined or a dedicated meta Description in the K2 Item so it is working off the first x characters of the K2 Item text.

Maybe one way round this is to manually amend the meta description in K2 or SH404SEF but I wondered whether there was a programatic solution before we have to go through each page and find all of them that have a ' in the intro text?

Thanks for your help and I hope this makes sense,

Cheers,

Dave

PS - an example page is: http://www.xxxx.com/book-now/prices

Hi,

Thanks for confirming that!

I've added text into the K2 Items Meta Description field and even that has sorted the issue, this also confirms that it isn't SH404SEF it must be K2s behaviour when there is no meta description entered.

I suspect that it does some HTML stripping from the intro text and it doesn't process these ' properly.

I'll await the new Version 3 of K2 and see if it changes and then raise a forum post with them directly. (If version 3 ever gets released that is - lol)

Thanks for your help though!

Cheers,

Dave