I have included opengraph tags on my page header like so:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://image1.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://image2.jpg" />
Image 1 is also displayed in body tag and perhaps this causes image 1 to be grabbed again, producing duplicates in the Facebook Sharer. I thought only those images with og meta tags are supposed to appear. Facebook Debug Linter shows correctly only those two images. Any help?
you should use the code to get image from the current page. Here is the code:
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $image; ?>" />
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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.
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 have this meta tag for an image to pull when the link to an article is posted on FB:
`<meta property="og:image" content="http://crossfit954.com/photos/t-316.jpg"/>`
However its pulling 3 other images not including the t-316.jpg I need. Running it through
the FB debugger says Can't Download Could not retrieve data from URL.
I'm not sure what else I need to get that image to be the thumbnail that posts on FB when I paste the link, any thought?
The debugger has all errors you need!
Use a bigger image to show the thumbnail you want and add the reuqired OGP tags
<meta property="og:title" content="Example" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/example.jpg" />
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 want to share a video with a thumbnail of only one image via sharer.php
I understand that most of people use Feed dialog with flexible UI but I need advanced options in this case.
A dialog looks like this and I want to have only one thumbnail the on I specify with og:image on a relative page
My OG tags look like this:
<meta property="fb:admins" content="*admins*" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="*app_id*" />
<meta property="og:type" content="movie" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="*height*" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="*width*" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
<meta property="og:title" content="*title*" />
<meta property="og:description" content="*description*" />
<meta property="og:image" content="*image*" />
<meta property="og:url" content="*url*" />
<meta property="og:video" content="*video*" />
And I use a basic function to call a Share This Link dialog
u = $(*link*).html();
t = $(*name*).html();
window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=*width*,height=*height*');
return false;
My question is how can I modify my code / add code to have only 1 thumbnail instead of 1 of 2 message
I tried changing my code, removing og:url, checking og:image, etc, using facebook debugger to clear its cache. And I could find nothing on net either.
I've been told you have to modify the code in (meta property="og:image" content="image" /) to
(meta property="og:image" content="http://www.yoursite.location of the image" /)
I've personally messed with this for several days and finally accomplished it! The way I did it was to publish the image I wanted FB to use for my site to my server. Then, in my browser, I did a right-click on the newly published image and chose "Copy image location". Then I added the above code to my page html between the header tags, and pasted the copied image location between the quotes. Be sure that your image is at least 200 x 200 px - they say the bigger the better, but not more that 5MB in size. I was having a lot of trouble getting FB to pick my specified image because I was making it too small. I've finally gotten success just now by resizing my image to 1000x712, and it's working.
In my case, Facebook has still not recognized my specified image as the ONLY image I want used, but I've also been told that FB will "scrape" my site every 24 hours and, hopefully, once that's done, the multiple images option will disappear. Hope this helps.