I want Facebook to ignore a particular image on a page. Is there any tag I can use that will hide an image from Facebook when users share a page?
We are using Joomla 3.4. The article pages that have an intro section that displays on category listing pages but is hidden on the actual article page. The intro section has a thumbnail 75 x 75.
In the main body of the article there is a larger image that we would like to display on Facebook but the og:image always selects the thumbnail first.
Is there any way I can add some parameter to the thumbnail so that it will be ignored?
Why don't you explicitly specify the larger image in your og:image tag? If you specify more than one og:image, as far as I know the first one is selected.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters#images
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/optimizing#cachingimages
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#images
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I want to be able to have a link on my website that upon clicking it opens a Facebook share dialog containing the image displayed with full size along with a custom text quote.
The 2 options that I tried with the Facebook share dialog don't achieve that result:
The first option is to use https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=3xxxxxx334"e=Some%20quote&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fsome_page, and use og:image tag on www.example.com/some_page with the image that I want to display
The problem with this approach is that the image is displayed cropped to match the aspect ratio that the Facebook uses (1.9:1) which is different than the aspect ratio that I use for the image (1.3:1)
The second option is to use https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=3xxxxxx334&media=[%27https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fsome_img.jpg%27] with the link of the image that I want to display
This approach displays the image in full size in Facebook, however the problem is that it doesn't allow adding any text quote with the image, any use of quote or description query parameters seems to be ignored by Facebook
So my question is there a way to combine the 2 methods such that the image gets displayed with full size along with a custom text quote?
I've been working on facebook social sharing, and I have gotten it to work via 'dialog' & 'popup' modals.
My feed is Shared on Facebook feed with the newer Large display rectangle.
I've set up all the proper parameters such as:
method:
app_id:
name:
link:
picture:
caption:
description:
display:
my page renders meta-tags with og:image, og:image_secure_ssl, og:image:height, og:image:width, with their respective content="image/height/width"
I've used the facebook:debugger to freshly re-scrape/cache the url.
Using FB.ui(options...), there is no parameter for height/width to be sent to facebook. My images meet the correct sizes of 1200x800+, as well as their aspect ratio of 1.9:1
What I want to achieve in my preview-modal is this:
Go to this website, and click on the round black facebook share icon:
http://www.violetgrey.com/violet-files/top-flight/the-golden-eye?icl=section_1_hero_v2_1&icn=hero_image
The much larger preview
My current preview-modal display currently is more like:
Go to this website, and click on the facebook share blue button:
https://www.everlane.com/invite
The small square preview
I really like the bigger share modal preview, because it looks better imo.
Do you guys have any advice as to how I can proceed?
To get the large preview, you can either rely on the Share Dialog or open up the plain old https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=(http://yourURL.com/) in a popup. They both use the Open Graph metadata you set in the head.
The Feed Dialog can be used to override the OG meta, so you can specify a title, description, picture, but there's no way to set the picture's dimensions or the layout of the dialog...
When I paste https://testing.grabble.co.uk/user/index/user/ben.mu into Facebook, for some reason it's picking the banner image from the top of the page instead of the image indicated in the og:image meta tag.
However, https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftesting.grabble.co.uk%2Fuser%2Findex%2Fuser%2Fben.mu indicates that everything is being pulled through correctly. Anyone got any ideas why this might be? The image is 200x200, which as I understand it should be large enough for Facebook to not ignore it.
Additionally, Pinterest seems to ignore all our og:image tags as well, even when the images being set are 450x450 or larger. I suspect this is related.
Apparently Facebook will take a larger, more detailed image over the one you've indicated in the og:image property if the og:image URL doesn't appear in the page as an actual <img/> element. Solution to this was to switch the banner image from being an <img/> tag to a background-image:url() CSS property. Everything now works as expected, including on Pinterest.
I have a site in which the user creates a dynamic image, and would like the user to be able to post her creation on Facebook. The way I wanted to achieve this is via the standard "like" and "share" buttons ( using XFBML) - I dynamically change their URL to a page containing the user image.
The problem is that Facebook posts the correct URL but with a generic picture, and not the user generated picture.
In the past I used to give the image url - and then I would get the right picture. But this is not what I wan't now - I wan't the link to be to a full feature page.
The target page does specify og:img to the dynamic image - but it seems FB does not use it...
Any ideas how I can control the image FB shows on the post?
There are some restrictions on the image
the thumbnail's width AND height must be at least 50 pixels, and cannot exceed 130x110 pixels. The ratio of both height divided by width and width divided by height (w/h, h/w) cannot exceed 3.0
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
I've set up a WordPress blog of mine and added a Facebook share button at the right sidebar, it's working but not showing the thumbnail image. I want to show only my default image as a thumbnail instead of my featured images. How can I set up a static (only my logo) thumbnail image for the share button ? I can see the
meta og:image tag and it varies with articles but I want only my logo to be posted. Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance. Here is the url of my site- http://heera.it
When I lint your site: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fheera.it
It shows that you have coded the og meta tags correctly.
Currently your og:image set to http://heera.it/wp-content/themes/shadows/images/hit.png
If you want to change this, change the meta tag's content parameter to something else.
Here's what the complete meta tag currently looks like:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://heera.it/wp-content/themes/shadows/images/hit.png" />
Update:
Actually the problem was image itself. Everything was fine but the image was smaller than 200px and Facebook didn't allow it. So increasing of the size of og image to 200px the image would be showed up.
All the images referenced by og:image must be at least 200px in both
dimensions.
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