quick question:
one tiny prob i have is when i try to share a page from my site on facebook (for example:http://pent-house.co.il/index.php/sale/52-2013-12-12-13-41-40), i cannot see thumbnails for the gallery. i see only the logo :\
is there any way that i can share the photos throw facebook?
thank you very much and have a damm nice day! XD
i wanted to shar a pic but i dont have enough reputation
You have to set an og:image meta tag like this:
<meta property="og:image" content="THE LINK TO YOUR IMAGE"/>
In the <head> of your document otherwise facebook bot uses (usualy) the biggest images he can fin. On the example page you linked to the biggest one is the logo.
Once you have set the og:image meta tag don't forget to delete facebook's cache by entering your page url on this page so you can see the modifications you make.
More information about thos meta tags and open graph here
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I've seen it several times on my facebook timeline where the image of a shared link is not in the post itself. Example:
https://www.facebook.com/BarakaBits/posts/1065758210116791 - Image has text on it.
screenshot
Here's the post itself: http://www.barakabits.com/2015/01/beauty-moroccos-diversity-captured-stunning-photo-series
Is this a hidden image? I'm using a wordpress blog, how can I do this? Do I need a special plugin?
Thank you in advance!
Wil
I don't know exactly what this site is doing, but you can suggest that Facebook use a specific image (not necessarily one found on the page) by using the og:image Open Graph tag. For example, something like this would go in the <head> portion of your site:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.barakabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Moroccos-faces-featured-6.jpg">
As you can see from the site you referenced, you can have multiple og:image tags, and the user will be able to choose which one is displayed in the post.
Here's Facebook's guide to Open Graph tags: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
I have a share button on my site (I use AddThis tool)
and Open Graph meta tags with article as a type:
meta property="fb:app_id" content="No"
meta property="og:image" content="LogoUrl"
meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpg"
meta property="og:image:width" content="200"
meta property="og:image:height" content="500"
meta property="og:url" content="LogoUrl"
meta property="og:title" content="title"
meta property="og:type" content="article"
My url looks like that: [mySite]/9095210/1811, so for every different url, I insert different thumbnail, title and description.
My images are from an absolute url.
The problem: I see the details in facebook share preview window, only after the second time I click on the share button. On the first time the facebook share window appears, but without any details. If I continue and share the link in the first time (as in the times after) I see all the details in my facebook. So, the problem in only in the facebook share preview window.
Anyone meet this problem already, and maybe can help?
I had the same problem, and the solution was the next:
You need to create an application in the facebook developer area: https://developers.facebook.com/apps
And need to put the application id to the the fb_init just like this:
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/hu_HU/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=YOUR_APP_ID";
After providing the correct appliaction id, my problem has been solved.
A similar issue is explained in the "facebook for developers" in sharing , best practices
Pre-caching images.
When content is shared for the first time, the Facebook crawler will scrape and cache the metadata from the URL shared. The crawler has to see an image at least once before it can be rendered. This means that the first person who shares a piece of content won't see a rendered image.
There are two ways to avoid this and have images render on the first Like or Share action:
Pre-cache the image with the Sharing Debugger
Run the URL through the URL debugger to pre-fetch metadata for the page. You should also do this if you update the image for a piece of content.
Use og:image:width and og:image:height Open Graph tags
Using these tags will specify the image dimensions to the crawler so that it can render the image immediately without having to asynchronously download and process it.
The third way, which is the way we do it, is to put in the link, and facebook responds with "fetching a preview" , close it and re-post. This works very well.
I hope that I understood your problem correctly and that this helps you.
I have a odd problem - when I share a link of a page from our website, the image does not show as a thumbnail (sometimes). It has the correct meta data but its almost like it times out.
For example
http://modetro.com/our-favourites/vintage-retro-sankyo-japanese-flip-alarm-clock-mode-no-401-space-age-mid-century
Has the meta tag
<meta property="og:image" content="http://modetro.com/image/cache/data/ebay/vintage-retro-sankyo-japanese-flip-alarm-clock-mode-no-401-space-age-mid-century/652436936_o-340x340.jpg" />
If I share this link on FB it does not show the thumbnail? I have used the debug tool for this and other pages and SOMETIMES it gets the image and sometimes doesn't? any ideas why?
According to Facebook, they have a glitch that they are working on .. see this page here
One of the problems I face while sharing a link of my blogger post on facebook or linkedin is that the thumbnail shared is my picture (which is the only picture on the page). I would prefer no thumbnail being shared.I tried using
<meta property="og:image" content=""
I.e the content is kept as blank, yet it shows a thumbnail. How do i set it to no picture?
You can't. Facebook/Linkedin will crawl your site and decide on it's own what images to offer the user. The og:image meta tag is just a suggestion and not a directive.
The only way to share without image is for the user to remove it.
Update: there is another way. You could detect (on the server) FB/LinkedIns crawler and serve them HTML that does not contain any images. That way they wouldn't have anything to display (just text). I don't know if that's possible on blogger. And if you go down this path, check FB/LinkedIn's TOS if this is allowed (doing this with google, for instance, will get you banned).
I'm develop sucsongmoi.net (vietnamese language) and when viewer share link of site from their wall some link facebook get description and image, some link facebook could not get description and image.
eg: share sucsognmoi.net facebook do not get description, image
but when i share: sucsongmoi.net/nau-gi-hom-nay-84.html facebook could get description and image.
I feel odd because I implement same code for this.
when I share through:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://www.sucsongmoi.net/?a=1
then it works. Is that facebook cache my site (như google index)? Then how can I update it?
thanks in advance
Here is a great tool facebook provides us to deal with exactly these issues -
Meet facebook's URL Debugger. With regard to YOUR problems, you can see from this report that facebook is unable to retrieve the title & url og:tags.... this is possibly due to the non-standard character set that you are using... can you try change the og:title value to something with only regular English letters? Or alternatively placing some Unicode characters instead.
I can not see ANY og:tags in your source. You can read more about Open Graph and the og:tags on this link.
Basically you have to place these tags in your page so that facebook can know what information to take and display when a user shares your url.
For example :
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
This will tell facebook about the image to use and the website name.
If you want to control the information that is shown when your link is posted in a Facebook status then you must add some Open Graph tags to the head section of your web page.
They are explained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/