Suddenly unable to share WordPress link on Facebook

I was able to share links from my WordPress blog on Facebook with no issues up till about a month ago. Previously, the abstract and featured image turned up fine, but now only the link shows up. I've tried adding OG meta tags to my functions.php but it is not solving the problem. Using a plugin didn't help either.

I ran the facebook object debugger and I got a response code: 200 Error:

Can't Download: Could not retrieve data from URL.

Here is a sample link.

I was able to share links from my WordPress blog on Facebook with no issues up till about a month ago. Previously, the abstract and featured image turned up fine, but now only the link shows up. I've tried adding OG meta tags to my functions.php but it is not solving the problem. Using a plugin didn't help either.

I ran the facebook object debugger and I got a response code: 200 Error:

Can't Download: Could not retrieve data from URL.

Here is a sample link.

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Share Improve this question edited Apr 28, 2013 at 16:39 tfrommen 9,23177 gold badges4040 silver badges5959 bronze badges asked Apr 28, 2013 at 16:12 TheresaTheresa 111 bronze badge 2

• 1 Your page took a minute and a half to fully load, it appears linkwithin's widget.js is delaying page load for some reason, I suggest disabling that and testing again. – Milo Commented Apr 28, 2013 at 16:44
• Hi Milo, thanks for the suggestion. I disabled it but it still doesn't solve the link problem on facebook. The site does load alot faster though. – Theresa Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 0:18

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I finally solved it. It was something with the permalinks. I changed the permalinks structure and suddenly it works.

For anyone who may have a similar problem, try going to settings under wordpress --> permalinks and try changing the permalink structure. I changed mine from day and name to post name and now facebook can recognise the links.