Open Graph

bici · 2016-08-22 22:12:06

can anyone shine any light on this?

hcgtv · 2016-08-23 14:19:06

towndock · 2016-08-23 15:22:26

Open Graph is the structure you use to tell Facebook what the title, content, and image you want to use if your page is shared.

Without Open Graph in your metadata, if you share a page to Facebook it may not grab what you want. We saw ads, the wrong description, etc show up.

With Open Graph in the metadata – Facebook knows exactly what you want. It isn’t difficult to combine TXP tags with Open Graphs requirements – and get an output that works.

Here is a news article on one of our sites:

2016 Hoop Pole Regatta

It produces this in the metadata:

<!-- open graph -->
<meta property="og:title" content="2016 Hoop Pole Regatta :: TownDock.net" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Wooden hoops are the trophies in the Hoop Pole Regatta, an annual race among young sailors from Oriental and Beaufort. Some local sailors collected several of them in the 2016...">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://towndock.net/news/2016-hoop-pole-regatta" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://towndock.net/img/21492.jpg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="TownDock.net" />

Last edited by towndock (2016-08-23 15:23:01)

bici · 2016-08-23 23:27:26

Thanks all. It sounds like it is something that I don’t need to worry about.

gaekwad · 2016-08-24 10:01:08

This might be helpful, should you change your mind: textpattern.tips/implementing-facebook-services-on-textpattern-articles-via-fbml

bici · 2016-08-25 02:29:48

thanks. i am not a user nor fan of FB but i do have a friend that wishes help with this issue.

towndock · 2016-08-25 14:57:56

bici wrote #300779:

thanks. i am not a user nor fan of FB…

Neither am I (I loath the place). But that isn’t the point of using Open Graph.

Many of our readers are FB users. Open Graph allows them to easily link to content that I have published on a TXP site. Bringing in more inbound links & traffic.

That’s all. You don’t have to use FB in any manner.

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bici wrote #300779:

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