Sometimes you may face different errors like 403 forbidden error when sharing the link of your learndash course on a facebook group post. Other times, you may find that the image of your course is not appearing properly on facebook after you have shared the link. There can be a few reasons for this kind of error. However, the best solution for finding out the cause of these errors is using a facebook debugging tool.
To check the cause of the error you can check this debugging tool . When you copy and paste the ‘problematic’ link to the sharing debugger box at the top of the page, and hit “debug” you will see the possible cause of the 403 forbidden error. Also, if you are looking for some guide on how to have optimized display of your links or link shares on facebook, you can go through this article from the provider themselves. Or you can refer to this article on this link to get some basic idea : https://sobiztrend.com/facebook-url-returned-a-bad-http-response-code/
And, also follow this thread: https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/1085796049211789/
Regarding, poor display of image, you will also see some warning message. For example, “Inferred Property: The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.”. This can be managed with the help of certain code or through the settings in the SEO plugins that you are using.
If you are a tech savvy person, you can manage to do that on your own. However, if you do not feel comfortable with playing with code or settings, etc, then you can contact us here for a quick fix.