I've add og metas to my web site. It works fine.
Only problem is, sharer sees another images too. But I want to show only 1 image. The image that I inserted with og meta.
How can I do that?
Could it be that Facebook has cached meta data from before you had your og meta data on your page? If so, rumor has it you can trigger a purge of their cash by linting the URL: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/. YMMV
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I have inserted the OG meta tags in my pages and also have provided a simple link to help users share the contents on the Facebook using the
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[the-urlencoded-link-to-my-page]
link. But I have two problems:
When attempting to share the content for the first time, the
Facebook sharer page only displays a preview box which only contains
the name of the site, and makes me use the Facebook's Object
Debugger to
fetch the meta tags. How can I automate this process?
And secondly, while the Object Debugger report says that it has
found the og:url, og:type, og:title, og:locale,
og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image and the
og:description raw tags on the page, but the image doesn't get
displayed in neither the preview box of the page nor on the shared
status. What I have missed? What's wrong?
To make things clear, sharing on google+ works perfectly (the image gets displayed, the title and the descriptions are in place.)
Thanks in advance :)
I'm sharing posts on facebook and it's not using my updated OG and meta tags. How long does it take for the changes to make affect.
You can refresh the OG tags in the Facebook debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
You can also take a look at this thread with the same question: Share Cache Timeout
Answer from the Like Button docs:
Why and when does Facebook scrape my page?
Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around
the site. This happens every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up
to date. The page is also scraped when the URL is entered into the
Debugger Tool.
Btw, there is a nice way to update many pages at once in this thread: Facebook Open Graph not clearing cache
I am trying to share this url via facebook(change RANDOM_STRING with any random string because of facebook cache):
http://www.ikposta.com/blog/goster/72/test_RANDOM_STRING
at first try facebook will decide picture which is there is a men. Refresh facebook page and try again share with same url at this time picture will be changed and you will see keyboard image which is correct image.
og:image tag is always correct why this is happening ?
How can I prevent ?
Run your URL through the Facebook Object Debugger to make sure that your OG image tag is correctly being picked up by Facebook. This will also force a re-cache of the image.
I ran it through quickly and there were a couple errors that came up. Primarily missing URL and title OG tags. You'll want to have these to avoid circular redirects. See here: Debugged
I would personally remove that cache bust all together. It's confusing Facebook because it looks like a directory. If anything, use a query string.
I am working on a wp blog site. Currently not using og tags at all.
I use the social sharing toolkit plugin to allow visitors to share articles on Facebook.
The problem:
When FB share box pops up, all of the images on the page are shown as thumbnail options to be published along with the article information. In some cases over 20 sometimes.
How can i specify only 1 image to be shown in the available thumbnail options?
I'd like to do this so that visitors don't, for example, select a meaningless image (such as page ad images or layout components)?
I tried using rel="image_src" as suggested but it made no difference.
Thanks.
This is working for me: I found out that even with OG meta tags Facebook Share plugin may present various thumbnails from my page, including all sorts of unwanted images. To work around it I add the wanted image with small size, first thing after the tag:
<img src="image_wanted_as_thumbnail.whatever" style="width:1px;height:1px;">
But I always use the OG meta tags as well.
I found sites which are using like button to specific images from galleries and when you like them on facebook they display proper image buth without even using og meta tags???
How they are doing this???
Here is example:
http://www.subotica.com/slike/album-62834-omega-disco-subota-vece/
Try to like any picture and try to debug them on facebook debuger and you will see that there are no meta tags but crawled picture is proper!
They are using the old sharer.php endpoint.
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=URLENCODED_URL_TO_PHOTO
That endpoint is officially unsupported. For the moment it still works, but it could be removed at any time. You can accomplish something similar using the Feed Dialog or the proper og:meta tags.