Description
This plugin adds accurate Open Graph Meta tags and the Facebook specific meta tags to your site. The idea is to keep minimal settings and options as to remain out of your way and in the background while still proving the options you need to share content flexibly. Without the bloat of some other plugins.
Image Handling
if the post page or CPT is singular it firstly look for the OGP image specified on the post edit screen image. It will then look for the featured image. If that isn’t there either, then it will default to using the site icon image (usually set under Appearance->Customiser. If THAT isn’t there then… well you fail and you won’t have an image.
Description Handling
The plugin looks in three places for an Open Graph description.
- The OGP description in the sidebar
- if the above is not specified it will try to use the post excerpt.
- If the above aren’t specified it will use the post content (stripped of invalid tags).
Testing Your Site
Once you’ve enabled the plugin head over to Facebook’s testing tool and paste in one of your post/page url’s or your home page to see what info Facebook is pulling in. This tool is located here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Check out our documentation for more information.
All tickets for the project are being tracked on GitHub.
Features:
- Select a post image specifically for sharing
- Handles Facebook specific meta like fb:admins and fb:app_id
- maps different users to different article:author properties
- Automatic generation of the description or add a custom description
Installation
- Upload the entire
lh-ogp-meta-tags
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Optionally navigate to Settings->LH OGP Meta and set the image and optionally, the facebook meta
- Optionally navigate to the User profile page and add the users facebook url.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Upload the entire
lh-ogp-meta-tags
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Optionally navigate to Settings->LH OGP Meta and set the image and optionally, the facebook meta
- Optionally navigate to the User profile page and add the users facebook url.
- Upload the entire
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0 September 08, 2015
Initial release.
1.1 September 17, 2015
Add settings link
1.2 November 7, 2015
Fixed JS
1.32 March 7, 2016
Added custom description
1.40 March 10, 2016
Use Site Icon
1.50 March 28, 2016
Major bug fix
1.51 April 02, 2016
Documentation
1.60 April 18, 2016
complete OOP rewrite
1.62 April 19, 2016
Bug Fix
1.63 May 12, 2016
Escape Attribute and sanitize
1.64 October 10, 2016
Added AMP check for xmlns output
1.66 October 12, 2016
Bugfix for amp check
1.67 April 2, 2017
Minor bugfixes and moved options to own file
1.68 May 04, 2017
Added nonce
1.70 September 10, 2017
Added additional images
1.72 October 18, 2017
Code simplification
1.73 November 30, 2017
Added locale