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My plain text Facebook post is being published with a link

If you have created a manual (one-off) post from the Scheduled Content area and have simply entered some text to publish, you may find that when the post is published to Facebook that Facebook automa…

If you have created a manual (one-off) post from the Scheduled Content area and have simply entered some text to publish, you may find that when the post is published to Facebook that Facebook automatically adds a link and thumbnail to your main website.

This is unfortunately a restriction of the Facebook API, but can easily be solved by attaching an image to the post when you are composing it. Doing this will ensure that Facebook shows a photo instead of an auto-generated thumbnail and link to your main website.

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