No Excerpt for some links

[Aaron]

My staging site: http://aaronkine.staging.wpengine.com/

Where is the Excerpt for these links? I am using Buddypress Activity Plus on another site and it shows the Excerpt for all these links. It also uses the Correct Image Preview instead of a cropped version (once posted to Activity Stream)

• http://www.sbearthday.org/volunteer/
• http://mashable.com/2015/10/13/free-online-classes/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#d1vSt9Q8GuqF
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-katovich/invest-in-who-you-know-pa_b_9294246.html

Another issue:
These links DO show the excerpt but there are some weird numbers showing up at the beginning of the Excerpt.
(just figured out what these wierd numbers are… its grabbing the Social Numbers from the Social Icon Buttons just above the Article [Facebook 291, Google+ 51, Linkdn 421, Pinterest 100] )

8 Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2016

“291514211002016 is going to be a big year…”

same problem here–> http://www.nptechforgood.com/2016/01/27/11-must-know-stats-about-how-ngos-worldwide-use-internet-technology/
“725487A collaborative research project by the…”

[Anonymous]

Hi @aaronkine
It depends upon the site, if they have not set proper meta description

view-source:http://www.nptechforgood.com/2016/01/27/11-must-know-stats-about-how-ngos-worldwide-use-internet-technology/

Analyse Metadata
URL: http://www.nptechforgood.com/2016/01/27/11-must-know-stats-about-how-ngos-worldwide-use-internet-technology/
Title : 11 Must-Know Stats About How NGOs Worldwide Use Internet Technology
Description : –

You can check for it, they have not set general meta description. Facebook specific property=”og:description” is set there.

Regards
Varun Dubey

[Aaron]

Ok understand, but how come this other plugin can grab the excerpt? Buddypress Activity Plus.

Also, when i paste this link it lets me choose an image (i chose #1 Butterfly) but when i hit POST theres NO image??

Volunteer

[Anonymous]

Hi @aaronkine
It depends upon their logic, We are using meta values and which is most common for all site.
It might be possible they are using first image apprach from body part.

Regards