silasborowy

It’s probably not theme-related. That’s right.

I’ve tried three plugins to insert OpenGraph tags so far. After you made me aware of the issue the third one causes (excerpt), I dowloaded another one… Looks pretty straight forward, that’s good, and works with Twitter and Telegram.

From my perspective each OpenGraph plugin serves a slightly different purpose. Some do offer tags per post/page and even the platform that makes the call for it. Others (like the new one above) are “static” except for posts. But if you don’t want to do any crazy marketing stuff that’s totally fine. I just want my website to easily support state of the art mobile web standards like a RichPreview when the link is shared in social media.

But I will evaluate this plugin first before I call for another one. ??

Actually that’s why I always tried to avoid it. But most of the tags I want to add “require” their own overloaded plugin. Some people even recommend to install YOAST just for inserting OpenGraph tags. ??

So.

It could make sense to add a “Custom Header Tags” section to your plugin where you can manually add tags to the sites header IMHO (e.g. OpenGraph tags to make the Rich Link Preview of Twitter/Facebook/Telegram/etc. work). Like a “+” to add a new key–value pair to the header. I don’t know if it breaks a site if tag key values are invalid. If so you could offer a dropdown list for keys and only allow custom values. ?????♂? I would love to add OpenGraph tags and tags for iOS Smart App Banners without another overloaded plugin. ????

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That’s a good answer. Thank you. ;-D
Obviously the plugin managing the OpenGraph tags messed with it. Means: As pages are not meant to have excerpts there is no need to care about it on your side IMHO. Maybe its time to create a child theme to take care of the tags myself finally…

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Hi Oliver!

I can set an “excerpt” in the document tab of a site. This is neither a post nor an archived page.
It’s used to generate the “description” for OpenGraph social media previews and is crawled by google instead of the sites actual text. But I want to hide it on the site itself.

I’ve published an excerpt for the homepage of elontime.de for reference.

Best,
Silas

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Hi Oliver!

Works perfectly! I really appreciate that you are so committed to your plugins. Keeping those up tp date, reviewing feature requests and helping people out if they need assistance is pretty much underappreciated these days (IMHO).

Thanks a lot,
Best,
Silas