Just wondering what HTML5 element is shown as the image for a Facebook post which contains a preview of the URL mentioned in the post?
I want to post a link to my website and have my logo appear in the image box of the URL preview...
Hopefully my question makes sense.
You can achieve that by adding Facebook specific OpenGraph meta tags in the header of your webpage.
Here are the meta tags you need to add
<meta property="og:url" content="WEBSITE LINK" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="IT WILL APPEAR IN BIG FONTS" />
<meta property="og:description" content="THIS WILL BE SUBTEXT" />
<meta property="og:image" content="LINK OF THE IMAGE" />
you can check out meta tags in details here
Also to verify how it will look and what actually Facebook sees through meta tags you can go to the Open Graph Object Debugger
Example shows what will be seen once you try to share https://images.google.com
Hope this is what you are looking for.
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I have a job portal website and on that I have a facebook button named as share in fb. I want that when user clicks on that button the that specific job description of my webpage should share on his wall.
<a rel='nofollow' href='http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://testing.com/current_openings.php?JobId=".$jobiid."' target='_blank'>share in fbk</a>
Above link go to share page,but its content is coming from webpage about us page,not specific content.
Set the meta tags for each site you want to be shareable.
Put them in the HTML Header like this
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/arts/international/when-great-minds-dont-think-alike.html" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike" />
<meta property="og:description" content="How much does culture influence creative thinking?" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/19/arts/international/19iht-btnumbers19A/19iht-btnumbers19A-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg" />
The properties include descriptive meta-data about the article that we specifically want to present when
This Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/damnlolcom/posts/812448255487528 looks like a photo post but is actually link, it clicks through to an external site.
I have tried sharing a link, removing all og metatags from my site except image path but it doesn't look like that.
The closest I can get is the default link behaviour without any title description, so just an image with the url besides/below rather than displayed over the top of the bottom of the image.
So what sort of post is this?
Thanks for any help.
Check out the url in linter .
raw tags found on page
Meta Tag <meta property="fb:app_id" content="172220699476208" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:site_name" content="Damn! LOL" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:title" content="Turns Out My Friend's Mom Is A Racist" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:description" content="Click for your daily dose..." />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.damnlol.com/turns-out-my-friends-mom-is-a-racist-47206.html" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.damnlol.com/pics/998/d6c09d2cc01d04bc5e47483e85774aee.jpg" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
Everything looks normal here . They are not using anything special . It is just facebook presents links in slightly different designs on feed on different times .
ps : try setting property="og:type" content="article"
I'm trying to implement a basic Facebook like functionality to a site. I've triple-checked & more the meta tags, but the og:description -text doesn't show up in the FB news feed. The title and the image work fine.
Here's the code:
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="SOG – VEITSIÄ VIIDAKOSTA ARKITÖIHIN" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/news/2" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Kunhan kirjoitan vaan jotain tekstia nyt." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Finnprotec.fi" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/kuvat/kuva517a8539a91f1.jpg" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="6700009220" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="348235131938688" />
When I click on the link on the page, the description shows up nicely under the title:
But when I click on the send button, this shows up on my FB feed:
This is what I'm trying to get:
The url of the current page is: http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/news/2
I have tried to clear facebook's cache with the facebook linter, but that hasn't helped.
I just ran into this. I found that the description is actually there - you have to hover over the image to see it. It shows it in the format you want sometimes, depending on the size of the post where you're viewing it.
For example, after I've liked my post, I don't see the description in the post shown when I click on my name and view my wall (where the posts are smaller).
But I do see it when I just go to facebook.com and I view the larger version shown in my stream.
I realize this isn't really answering the question; I couldn't find a way to get it to show the description consistently.
add this two lines to your code after og:image
<meta property="og:image:width" content="400" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="300" />
it must work
I'd like to add open graph meta data to my site such that links of my site look like the Anthropologie post below, but instead I'm getting a smaller image with text on the right like the Etsy post above it.
These are the open graph tags I'm providing:
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="{{the title of my page}}" />
<meta property="og:description" content="{{the description}}" />
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ the image url}}" />
Should I be using a different type? Or is there another opengraph tag I need to provide to get the bigger image to display?
The Etsy's post you have shown is a feed,
and the Anthropologie's post you've shown is a photo
Understand the difference between the two.
I have a website. When anyone shares a link of my website(manually and not by Graph API), an incorrect image is being displayed rather than the logo of my website. Please tell me how to display the logo correctly. Is there a meta tag or something like that to do that thing...Please help me...
There is a special meta property for displaying the correct image. Some of them are as follows :-
<meta property="og:title" content="Your title" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/url?dynamic=0 />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/your-logo.png" />
You can find every detail at the Open Graph Website