Facebook open graph tags missing - any extension?

justshipit

Soo the preview thumbnails looks pretty poor when you share a link from your Flarum.

Yes, we do have standard meta tags but Facebook state that open graph tags properties should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags. Currently missing og tags:

og:image (the most needed!)
og:url
og:title
og:description
fb:app_id

Obviously, except visual enhancement, it enhances both on/off site SEO.

justshipit

@DavidChen +1! I just started this topic - justshipit where I mention about open graph image tag + bunch of others.

7h3ev1l

justshipit I wonder cant facebook get automaticly any image from page?

justshipit

If you post a link from a flarum with an image upload extension then maybe yes. Saying "maybe" because I did not try myself. But even then, they want their open graph tag to be in place anyway.

Suggestion for thumbnail preview: Since Flarum, as standard, comes without image upload feature, maybe we could have base image that is served across entire platform and will be used for both Twitter & Facebook previews. Its still better than no thumbnail at all.

Davis

I feel like this should be implemented into core. It seems like a small enough detail where it would only take a few more lines of code and realistically, this feature is needed. Discord used this as well to expand links and it seems like a good thing to have for all installs.

The image could be the first image displayed in the original post, and if there isn't one, it could be set to the forum's logo (soon to be added to core).

The url would be the... well... Url.

The title would of coarse be the title of the post.

Description could be a getPlainContext() similar to the way the sticky extension gets it's description.

Fb app id? I assume that could be added to the Facebook auth extension.

justshipit

Any update on this? Anyone?

NorioDS

I was also looking for this and found this extension:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6171-flarum-sharing

Which uses code from these extensions:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1619-share-social

And:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/3586-avatar4eg-share-social

I have not tested any of these. I'd recommend testing on a local install before testing on production because at least one of the above threads had a comment saying it doesn't work on beta7.

Personally I'm thinking of forking one of these as my needs are a bit different.

jordanjay29

NorioDS Well, the first and last ones are MIT licensed, so you are free to fork them. Vingle's Share Social is not explicitly licensed (I would assume proprietary in that case) and so I'd avoid forking that without direct permission from the creator.

You're right, they may need updating to work on the current versions.

010101

NorioDS This one is another fork of one or more of those. It works. Kinda. In my forum at least only my logo shows as the image no matter what. Even if the post has an image. But, it at least creates the summary card for Twitter/Facebook.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/12065-flarum-extension-sharing-for-seo

NorioDS

Thanks @010101 ? Nice to see something more recent. Might be able to contribute to it.