Feature request: Exclude widget area

  • Resolved Huckleberry

    (@helijobs)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    My website has a widget area that contains images. Sometimes these images are being used when sharing a post in lieu of the post image itself. From what I know there is no “exclude” parameter with Open Graph, but is there a way to exclude e.g. the widget area from the OG tags?

    The default image setting is not a way to go for me, because every post has its respective image.

    Thank you for a great app.

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  • Plugin Author Alex MacArthur

    (@alexmacarthur)

    Hi! Do you have an example link? My hunch is that Facebook is automatically grabbing the closest image it can find on the page if one isn’t set explicitly for Open Graph. If you don’t want those images to be used, a possible solution (although a hacky one) would be to upload a blank, small image as your OG image, which case Facebook should grab that one. I have not verified this myself, but that’s where I’d start.

    Thread Starter Huckleberry

    (@helijobs)

    @alexmacarthur, thank you for your suggestion. I understand that this could be a tricky area since social media decides what to use as image. I will look for another way to tweak it, maybe defer the widget from loading, so that FB might pick the image I want it to show.

    Sorry for my late reply.

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