{"id":1152,"date":"2020-11-25T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/11\/25\/4664877-how-to-fix-a-website-blocked-by-facebook-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:12","slug":"4664877-how-to-fix-a-website-blocked-by-facebook-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4664877-how-to-fix-a-website-blocked-by-facebook-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix a Website Blocked by Facebook at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If your website is blocked by Facebook, you will get the following error upon sharing the URL:<b> &ldquo;Your message couldn&rsquo;t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive&rdquo;<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/bee38dcb-fae2-44a9-8ee7-6a529a2abd20.jpg\" alt=\"The error message shown when a site is blocked by Facebook\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To fix it, head to the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Sharing Debugger tool<\/a><\/b> to identify the issue. Just enter your domain name and click on <b>Debug<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/6dd3d776-487a-4e97-ac6d-7b0d62dc0514.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook Sharing Debugger tool\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Now follow the options below according to the result of the debugging process:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"option-1---website-doesnt-meet-community-standards\">Option 1 &ndash; Website Doesn&rsquo;t Meet Community Standards<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">The most common reason why a website URL is blocked is that it doesn&rsquo;t follow Facebook&rsquo;s <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitystandards\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Standards<\/a><\/b>, so make sure to check them thoroughly.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you&rsquo;ve made sure that your website doesn&rsquo;t violate any of the standards, or you have removed content that Facebook would find inappropriate, click on <b>let us know<\/b> and request a review:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/3aa171cc-195e-454b-b841-cf1771c20a32.jpg\" alt=\"The option to request a review from Facebook\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">This will lead you to a form where you can submit a short message explaining why your site should be unblocked:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/ef73fa4c-bfef-4b9f-a4c1-816c8e28f33a.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook form to request reviewing\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you have submitted this form, allow for a few days until Facebook reviews your report.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"option-2---warnings-that-should-be-fixed\">Option 2 &ndash; Warnings That Should Be Fixed<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If there is a <b>Warnings That Should Be Fixed <\/b>tab after debugging, it means that there is an issue with a specific URL from your website, its content, or a general development issue. For example:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/0eb45b89-323c-40a9-8c99-d0b503c99744.jpg\" alt=\"A warning regarding image property\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you are not experienced in website development, you can consider <b><a href=\"\/support\/5375833-fiverr-services-at-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">hiring a professional developer<\/a><\/b> to take care of this process, or research using specialized forums, such as <b><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">StackOverflow<\/a><\/b> &ndash; it&rsquo;s a great place to get development support.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After fixing all the reported issues, you can request for Facebook to scrape the URL again:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/e7abf35e-bd5b-4d4e-b8d3-84b0977b2b32.jpg\" alt=\"The Scrape Again button on Facebook debugging\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the scrape is completed, you can share your website using Facebook &#128522;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing the issue where you can\u2019t share your website on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-security"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4664877-how-to-fix-a-website-blocked-by-facebook-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4664877-website-saya-diblokir-di-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}