I am in need of a plugin for my wordpress blog.
The blog has huge number of posts.
I was looking for some plug-in that would run an automated slideshow of images on each and every posts.
The pictures for slideshow for each post should be according to the category of the post.
For example if a post belongs to "Drums" category, the slideshow should show pictures pertaining to drums.
Is there a solution of this kind available?
Thanks.
Shobhan
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Is it possible to mirror Facebook comments from my Facebook page on a post to my site using the comments plugin? I've been searching and cant really find anything regarding this subject. thanks
If all you need is to "mirror" that, then this is probably possible by using:
GET /{POST-ID}/comments?access_token=PAGE-ACCESS-TOKEN
However, if you are looking for a plugin, the nearest plugin for this is the Embedded Posts but that will only show the numbers of comments:
What do people see in Embedded Posts?
The embedded post will show any
media attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and
comments that the post has. Embedding posts will let people using your
web site see the same rich information that is shown on Facebook.com,
and they will enable people to follow or like content authors or Pages
directly from the embed.
This is my post featured image.
This is my post entitled "First post" with social icons at the bottom for sharing using social media feather plugin
This is what shows up when I clicked the facebook button
The image above shows that it doesn't return the right image set as featured image for the first post to be shared in facebook. I also encountered the same problem using WP Social Sharing. Can anybody help me solve this please. Thanks a lot.
Facebook, and other platforms that allow social sharing (LinkedIn, Twitter, G+, etc), all use a protocol called OpenGraph.
In it's simplest form, OpenGraph is a series of meta tags placed on a web page that describe that page. Common tags include a title of the page, description, image and a category. It is this OpenGraph image that Facebook uses in it's preview for the social share.
The tag itself is called og:image, and Facebook suggest it is at least 1200x630 pixels, although they will still use the image if it is less than that. As a side note for anyone viewing this thread and having the same issue with Facebook apps - you'll need to serve the image over HTTPS for that, something you don't need to do in this case.
I would suggest viewing the source of your page and finding the OpenGraph tags. If none are present (very possible) then Facebook is just doing it's best based on what it sees on the page. You can remedy this by adding your own tags, or using one of the many OpenGraph plugins available for WordPress.
More information on Facebook's best practices for social sharing are available.
A little while ago, I built this:
http://www.littlebray.co.uk/photos.aspx
It's kind of an off-Facebook partial replica of a Facebook photo album gallery, the photos in the gallery section are all pulled from Facebook albums on the Page for Little Bray (fb.com/littlebray) enlarging them gives you a kinda full screen view of them with commenting facilties on the right margin, just like Facebook.
You'll notice that, whilst this comment section looks a bit like a Facebook plugin, it isn't, and the reason for this is that if I used Facebooks Comments Plugin, when a user comments on a photo on the website, or comments on the same photo (remembering the photos come from the same source), it will create two different streams of comments, one shown on FB and one shown on the website.
With my method, any comments posted either on the website or FB will appear in both places as they're al directly injected into the FB graph relating to the object ID of the photo.
A bit later on, I created another, similar image gallery but used Facebooks Social Plugin "Comments" in the right hand margin to comment on photos. The difference here though was that these photos were lcoally hosted by the website and not already Facebook album objects, so this other website is the only source for these images and thus creating FB objects when commenting via a URL is fine.
BUT... it got me thinking, is my first example just a lot of work, is it possible to use Facebooks own Social Plugin to post comments on an object which already exists on Facebook in that way?
I tried pasting a graph URL https://graph.facebook.com/FB_OBJECT_ID into the Comments example on Facebooks Social Plugins page from a status update of mine, but nothing showed.
Any ideas?
EDIT ---
I have discovered I am not alone in asking this question:
Using social plugins for pre-existing Facebook posts
Load comments from open graph object into Facebook comments social plugin
Neither of those have satisfactory answers though. Perhaps I just need to improve my own code and make my own plugin.
At this time the comments plugin can not be used in that way.
I have a site developed in wordpress. There is a product category and there are posts assigned to it, now when a product is clicked, a fancybox opens up. I am trying to have facebook like for the products inside the fancybox using addthis. Now the problem is, when a product is liked a random image is shown instead of the product image. After much research found that I need to set up the facebook meta on the fly, but I am unable to figure out a way to achieve this task. As the page is not reloaded how can I set up the meta tags having the respective images for the products?
The site url is http://havmor.com/products/
Regards,
Joel James
I would like to endup having this functionality:
When a logged in user of a selfhosted WP-website posts a photo to a gallery, the photo is automatically posted to the facebook page of the website owner. This should of course happen only after admins approval.
Not sure where to start:
Should I find a gallery that is able to do this?
Should I code it myself? If so, where to begin?
There are plugins for image galleries in wordpress, and there are plugins that allow posting to facebook... You might want to start by looking at those, and seeing what already exists, then go from there to start coding your own solution, if they don't fit your need.
Here, for example, is an image gallery plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Here's one for a link to facebook: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-link-to-facebook/
After you peruse what's available, try posting any further questions here: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/, which is a wordpress-specific forum.