[geeklog-devel] Open Graph metadata to improve Facebook sharing

[Dan Stoner]

Hi Ivy,

The OGP plugin seems to work just fine.  Without any configuration
(just the installation) the plugin adds the ogp metadata to every
page. I did not do the configuration to enable Facebook "Likes", etc.
which requires a FB app registration.


In my case I am happy that the first image in an article is used for
"og:image" rather than my ads or other graphics on the page.  Same
with text from the article (rather than text from one of my blocks).

For example:

http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/20070811121832926


Now includes this metadata:

<!-- Open Graph Protocol --><meta property="og:site_name"
content="thatlinuxbox.com">
<meta property="og:url"
content="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/20070811121832926">
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US">
<meta property="og:title" content="Another year, another Birthday Party">
<meta property="og:image"
content="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/images/articles/20070811121832926_1.jpg">
<meta property="og:description" content="This year's starting
lineup... Beer selection courtesy of Ward's Grocery and Gator
Beverage.">


And if I share on Facebook the image from the article appears as I would expect.

Thanks again!

- Dan Stoner



On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Dan Stoner <danstoner at gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, the Facebook debugger is available to preview how FB "sees" your website:
>
> https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
>
> - Dan Stoner
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Dan Stoner <danstoner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that sharing pages from my site on Facebook frequently does
>> display the proper images or text from an article.
>>
>> I believe that FB relies heavily on the Open Graph protocol to
>> determine the images in a document.
>>
>> http://ogp.me/
>>
>>
>> Has there been any talk of implementing Open Graph metadata in Geeklog?
>>
>> - Dan Stoner