XF 2.2 og:image

[Artonn]

I tried sharing a thread today, which has an image. But it seems like facebook does not regonize this image as it is displaying something else. Is this a known issue, am I missing a setting, how can it be fixed?

 

[TPerry]

ACP -> Styles -> Your style -> Basic Options



That is what is used by default if you fill it in. XF does NOT use images in the threads you share... you have to take some special steps to do that.. there is at least one add-on and also a guide in the resource area. Both only share the image in the first post.... it's just one of those "little things" that XF developers could improve on and resolve some of that low hanging fruit when it comes to improvements that affect the daily life of an admin and users.
It should really be able to share an image based upon the shared post in a thread.... but if wishes were fishes, we'd never go hungry.

 

[Artonn]

ACP -> Styles -> Your style -> Basic Options

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That is what is used by default if you fill it in. XF does NOT use images in the threads you share... you have to take some special steps to do that.. there is at least one add-on and also a guide in the resource area. Both only share the image in the first post.... it's just one of those "little things" that XF developers could improve on and resolve some of that low hanging fruit when it comes to improvements that affect the daily life of an admin and users.
It should really be able to share an image based upon the shared post in a thread.... but if wishes were fishes, we'd never go hungry.

It seems like there's a solution to this issue here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/joyfreak-open-graph-image.9046/

 

[TPerry]

It seems like there's a solution to this issue here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/joyfreak-open-graph-image.9046/

Yep... but it takes the first image in the thread.... so if you are in a thread with multiple images, only the first gets applied, no matter if you share a post with another image on it. It works, but it is not the best solution (which is something XF needs to address if possible).
I use an add-on to resolve the base issue myself, as it grants a few more features.

XenForo 2 - [CinVin] Style & Meta Tweaks (use attachments for og:image & others)

This is a collection of several options related to XenForo meta tags and miscellaneous display tweaks. This is how, for example, we are using attachments for the og:image at Cameraderie photography forum. After installing go into your XF Options...

aliensoup.com

 

[Artonn]

Yep... but it takes the first image in the thread.... so if you are in a thread with multiple images, only the first gets applied, no matter if you share a post with another image on it. It works, but it is not the best solution (which is something XF needs to address if possible).
I use an add-on to resolve the base issue myself, as it grants a few more features.

XenForo 2 - [CinVin] Style & Meta Tweaks (use attachments for og:image & others)

This is a collection of several options related to XenForo meta tags and miscellaneous display tweaks. This is how, for example, we are using attachments for the og:image at Cameraderie photography forum. After installing go into your XF Options...

aliensoup.com

That looks promising, which settings would you recommend on this addon?

 

[TPerry]

That looks promising, which settings would you recommend on this addon?

I use the settings from the "view more" option down to the Facebook app ID.

 

[MentaL]

It seems like there's a solution to this issue here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/joyfreak-open-graph-image.9046/

This works very well.

 

[Artonn]

I use the settings from the "view more" option down to the Facebook app ID.

Just installed it, and it works wonderfully for me.

 

[TPerry]

Just installed it, and it works wonderfully for me.

Yah... @CinVin did a nice job on making what should be built in available as an extension.

 

[Artonn]

Yah... @CinVin did a nice job on making what should be built in available as an extension.

It is strange that this isn't build into xenforo, it's such a simple feature. They're already doing title and description, it's just another head element. I'm glad that CinVin was around to make this feature available to us.

 

[Artonn]

This add-on now causes HTTP ERROR 500 on 2.3

 

[Kevin]

This add-on now causes HTTP ERROR 500 on 2.3

Do you mean the CinVin one? If so, can you let know how/where you're getting the error?

 

[Artonn]

Do you mean the CinVin one? If so, can you let know how/where you're getting the error?

Yeah CinVin.

 

[Kevin]

Yeah CinVin.

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Thanks, I'll get it sorted.

 

[Kevin]

Yeah CinVin.

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It's been updated over at Alien Soup to version 1.2.0, that should take care of it for you with XF 2.3.0 for now. The sites I've converted so far are low usage so there may be something I missed with the 2.3.0 update, if you see anything, please let me know.

Also take note that the option for changing the emoji file extension when using a CDN has been moved out into it's own addon, [CinVin] Emoji Tweaks. If you're not using that option currently then you don't need Emoji Tweaks but if you are using that option then you'll want to grab both addons.