Social sharing memory question

  • Resolved beantown123

    (@beantown123)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    This may be more of a general question. I’ve enabled Open Graph on the Social section on Yoast since I like the look of Twitter cards where the images link directly to my blog posts.

    I have been making separate images for Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest to fit their specific size recommendations. By using Open Graph (and not posting directly to Twitter, FB, Pinterest), aren’t my images going to take up a lot of room on WordPress over time if I need to publish 4 images for every post (original plus those 3 social media sites)?

    Is there a way to publish to those social media sites and then delete from my blog? I assume no since it seems to be pulling the image from my site.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hello @beantown123

    Unfortunately, if you delete the images from your WordPress website after sharing, this wouldn’t be ideal, as if you decide to share the content again after a while, or make any other changes, the path or URL of the og:image tag will then show as a 404 (since it does indeed pull the URL of the image from your website), and then no image will show at all. Perhaps you could look at upgrading the storage on your website if that would be an eventual concern.

    Thread Starter beantown123

    (@beantown123)

    Ok thanks. I’ve done some more reading on image sizes, and I think I can get away with creating just one extra image to cover both Twitter and Facebook, then I could upload directly to Pinterest altogether.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @beantown123 In addition to using one image to cover both sites, we would also recommend to make sure that the image you do use is well optimized as that will help to reduce both storage size, as well as bandwidth on your site. We have more information on this here: https://yoast.com/image-seo/#size

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