Posted 1 year ago #
Hi,
My post has a featured image, however I wanted to use the 150x150 thumbnail as the image that is parsed by Facebook. The featured image has an aspect ratio which does not look good on FB.
I would have expected the og:image to reflect the image that I selected in post edit screen?
Thanks in advance,
Shem
Posted 1 year ago #
The minimum size for Facebook is 200 x 200 pixels, that is why the plugins picks medium sized images from WordPress.
Posted 1 year ago #
Does that mean, I should increase my default WordPress thumbnail sizes to 200px?
Posted 1 year ago #
WordPress can deliver images in the sizes thumbnail, medium and large. The plugin requests medium images, so increasing the thumbnail size want help.
Posted 1 year ago #
If you download and install the development version, you can select the image size that will be sent to Facebook using the plugin settings. Please let me know if this solves your problem.
Posted 1 year ago #
Perfect, worked like a charm, thanks Marcel :)
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks for reporting back!
Posted 1 year ago #
I really love this plugin, but was wondering whether there is some way we can request features? Or if there is already some means for feature requests?
Posted 1 year ago #
Even more features? ;-)
Just ask and I will see what I can do.
Posted 1 year ago #
Cool.
I wanted an anonymity facility. For instance, at the moment when we have someone reply to a post on FB, the resulting string that is printed on WordPress is something like "Such and Such replied on Facebook".
What I do in order to protect my friends' identity, I go into WordPress and edit the name to read "FirstName LastInitial" and remove everything else including the Facebook email ID from the comment. E.g., "Mark Smith on Facebook" --> "Mark S" - this achieves the copy of the comment without a link to FB and unnecessary information divulged in open.
What do you think? :)
Posted 1 year ago #
It is already possible to select the link type with an option. I guess you want it to point to the discussion on Facebook instead of to the profile page of the author.
The other feature request (changing names) is not general enough for a new feature IMHO. If you want you can use one of the filters of the plugin to change the texts, although this requires some programming (a few lines of code). Users of your WordPress site decided to register with a certain name and choose to comment under that name. I don't see a reason to change names (and I even think you shouldn't). Where it possibly went wrong is that you choose those comments to appear on Facebook too. If this is a problem, you should not enable comment integration. Maybe it is an idea to have a comment policy to make clear what is going to happen with comments.
Posted 1 year ago #
Put this in the file functions.php in your current theme folder to remove 'xxx commented on yyy':
add_filter('al2fb_comment', 'al2fb_comment', 5, 3);
function al2fb_comment($message, $comment, $post) {
return $comment->comment_content;
}(not tested, by will probably just work)
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