Provide some additional Open Graph meta tag to your Plone site, so share items on Facebook will be simpler
Project description
Introduction
Are you commonly sharing contents from your Plone site or a site page to a Facebook account?
When you use the nice Facebook sharing interface, you have a simple way to customize additional data for the item that will be published (mainly: choose a proper image from the remote page).
However when trying to do this automatically (e.g: you are publishing the link in a Twitter account that also feed a Facebook page) Facebook is choosing an image for you… and often this is not the image you want.
How can you solve this? In general you can provide some additional meta tag information using Open Graph standard, customizing many aspect of the way of sharing contents on Facebook.
Product detail
Installing collective.fbshare product and add some additional meta tags in the head section of your site.
Plone site metas
When sharing the site root, you’ll get:
- og:type
Always website
- og:url
The URL to the site
- og:image
See next section
- og:title
The name of the site
- og:description
The description of the site
When sharing site content’s you’ll get:
- og:type
Always article
- og:url
The URL to the content
- og:site_name
The name of the Plone site
- og:image
See next section
- og:title
The title of the content
- og:description
The description of the content
- article:published_time
The publication date of the content (when present)
- article:expiration_time
The expiration date of the content (when present)
- article:author
A link to the creator’s page. This will be used only when you choose to display the about info of site user’s
- article:tag
List of content tags
About images
In the site control panel you can access a new configuration panel named “Open Graph sharing settings”. From there you can:
provide a custom image content to be used as og:image
choose to use the site’s logo as og:image
Dependencies
Tested on:
Plone 4.2
Plone 3.3
On Plone 3.3 you need to configure properly plone.app.registry dependencies and upgrade the default version used of plone.z3cform.
Credits
Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.
Authors
This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.
Changelog
0.1.0 (2012-07-25)
Initial release
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