trumpdonaldj.com Normally if I post a link somewhere like Twitter or Facebook there’s a little preview window of the site I’m linking. When I use my site it’s really just the name and some little box, but no preview. Is there a way to fix that?

I’m afraid not [image] Ensuring only web browsers can access your website Websites and PHP InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web b…

For Facebook, could you add some code to make it easier to share from your website? I think you may use an image if you use the feed method. [image] Feed Dialog - Sharing - Documentation - Meta for Developers Not sure if that helps.

I don’t think that would work as stated by @Meishin

Yeah, I wasn’t able to get it to work. I could get the image to show using the share method and pointing to an image on the site, but when I tried specifying the picture parameter for the feed method, it looks like Facebook doesn’t perform the same retrieval for the image. My apologies. I think Face…

The same security system that blocks the requests from Facebook to lookup the OpenGraph data on the page, also blocks requests to specific images from your site. So the reason it doesn’t work is not a Facebook issue, it’s a restriction of free hosting.

I have seen this reply before on other questions, but how is having a preview when I post the link “file-sharing”? What file is being shared? And how does having that preview change it from hosting a website. Like when my sites were on GoDaddy they showed up fine, but they were still hosted websites…

S then even the cheapest paid hosting like Hostinger would be a much better choice.

[image] adamcharles1972: then even the cheapest paid hosting would be a much better choice. Yes, paid hosting is generally better than free hosting. It’s also, crucially, not free. If you need the features of paid hosting and are willing to pay for the hosting, just get paid hosting. [im…

[image] adamcharles1972: I have seen this reply before on other questions, but how is having a preview when I post the link “file-sharing”? What file is being shared? It has nothing to do with file sharing. The security system that the article Frank sent talks about is designed to make sure y…

Hostinger is consistently rated to be the best or one of the best in reviews and the site you linked is never even mentioned. I go with reviews.

Why is there no preview when I post my website link places?

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Meishin May 30, 2025, 4:37am 2

I’m afraid not