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*SOLVED* Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:13 pm
by etcbbu
Hello, I was unsure whether to post this here in the "General Questions" section or the "Off Topic" section; but it *does* involve WB. But it's about facebook Pages:
When I am operating a facebook Page of a business and attempt to post a new "Post" on its feed, and input a URL with an https:// in front of it, that tells facebook's system I'm posting an external link.
So facebook system just about always tries to hit that URL and auto-pulls an image thumbnail; and it uses it for the post.
Where do I edit code from within my .WBS work-space to exactly define what image they're gonna pull, size it to where it'll look good, etc.? This thing pulls out the *worst* thumbnails unless I successfully can define it to do it exactly how I want.
--etcbbu
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:31 pm
by crispy68
You need to specify the image you want to use buy setting the
og:image tag in the open graph meta tags.
One tool I use to see what info Facebook is pulling from a website is their Facebook Crawler tool here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:35 pm
by etcbbu
@crispy68 — Thanks! Do you have a go-to pixel-width and pixel-height that you use for that, by chance? I've seen some articles saying something about 1200 x 630 pixels .. ?
--etcbbu
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:04 pm
by crispy68
Yes, I believe that is the recommended size. Running the Facebook scraper via the link I gave you will also tell you if the image is not adequate.
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:11 pm
by etcbbu
Do I just place the
tag in
Page Properties >> Between<head></head>tags ? Just, above or below the unrelated google Analytics snippet I always have there?
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:11 pm
by crispy68
No need to add it like that. Just open up the page properties --> Click Meta Tags --> select Open Graph --> Image
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:51 pm
by etcbbu
Is everything in that dialogue box optional? Like, I'm not sure what (if anything) I should put in "App ID"..?
And then, for example, is the "twitter card" button for when someone posts a URL to the page in question, and defining how it'll look in the preview on twitter when someone posts the URL? Or are these something else altogether?
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:04 pm
by crispy68
yes, the twitter card is for twitter.
You can fill out as much info as you want in that section. For me, I usually fill it all in.
the app id is for Facebook developers. I have created id's in the past. You can find more about that here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/de ... ate-an-app
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:27 pm
by etcbbu
Ah yes, I remember those facebook App IDs from the past.
What about for other social media networks that are not Meta/facebook or twitter/X? Like,for example, if I wanted to post a URL on another social media network that "pulls in" a graphic into the little thumbnail / preview for posts on that other social media platform that allows for this type of thing similar to Meta/facebook and twitter/X; should what I am doing here on the
page properties --> Click Meta Tags --> select Open Graph
do that for those other social media networks too?
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:46 pm
by crispy68
Hard to say without you picking one. You would need to look at how it's implemented with that particular social media site. More than likely they are using the same open graph tags as those are all pretty standard.
Here is some info to check out:
https://ogp.me/
Re: Unsure if here or "Off Topic" was most accurate; involves WB
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:56 pm
by BaconFries