Will there be support for Pinterest title?

  • I just discovered this plugin and it is exactly what I am looking for and it is free. Thank you! Recent Pinterest changes now require a Pinterest title to be entered separately for each pinned image. Will this field be available eventually? Similar to Pinterest Description field?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author ilektronx

    (@ilektronx)

    I can’t find any information about a title field. Do you have a link to what you’re talking to about? I would love to include it if possible.

    Thread Starter juliaim

    (@juliaim)

    Here’s the info I found. It’s just another field, similar to data-pin-description. It’s called data-pin-title

    https://www.megbateman.com/pin-titles-explained/

    It used to be that it was automatically populated from the wordpress blog post, but it is not anymore. Now, it’s empty, unless you go an manually add into the pinterest image (through edit) or if it’s added through data-pin-title

    Plugin Author ilektronx

    (@ilektronx)

    I don’t see anything about data-pin-title from Pinterest’s developer documentation. Based on looking around, it seems that this might be something that only Tailwind is looking for. I don’t see anything that says that says that Pinterest is looking for that attribute. For rich pins, open graph tags seem to be used, such as og:title. However, MetaPin is just a simple helper for the HTML5 data-pin attributes. There are no plans to generate open graph tags, because there are other plugins that do that quite well. However, if Pinterest themselves document that they use that attribute, I’ll definitely add it to the plugin.

    Thread Starter juliaim

    (@juliaim)

    Unfortunately, it’s not just Tailwind. Title field is there by default. If you pin an image, it’ll automatically pin it without a Title. Then you have to go into a pin and add a title. I am unable to attach screen shots into this thread but I could email them to you to show what I mean.

    Here’s another plugin that I use on one of my sites that supports pinterest titles currently. It’s a paid plugin. It uses data-pin-title for that field.

    https://www.wptasty.com/blog/pinterest-titles-and-bug-fixes-tasty-pins-1-0-0

    here’s an example of code used with that plugin

    img class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-8548″ src=”[myurlhere]/Carrot-Cake-Roll-21.jpg” alt=”Slice of carrot cake roll.” width=”680″ height=”1022″ data-pin-title=”Carrot Cake Roll (gluten-free)” data-pin-description=”A lot of text and words here”

    Plugin Author ilektronx

    (@ilektronx)

    I reached out to Pinterest to ask about the data-pin-title to see if I could get some clarification on the usage of the attribute and where they support it. I’ll follow up with what I learn.

    Thread Starter juliaim

    (@juliaim)

    Thank you very much for looking into it!!

    Plugin Author ilektronx

    (@ilektronx)

    Turns out that the individual html5 data-pin attributes on images has been deprecated by Pinterest, which means that this plugin will probably be obsolete.

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