Title: FastOG — Dynamic Social Cards & Link Previews for WooCommerce
Author: fastog
Published: September 24, 2026
Last modified: September 25, 2026
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# FastOG — Dynamic Social Cards & Link Previews for WooCommerce
By [fastog](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fastog/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fastog-for-woocommerce.0.1.0.zip)
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## Description
**Fix ugly, cropped product previews on WhatsApp, iMessage and LinkedIn.**
A shared link with no card is a link nobody clicks — and the card most stores get
is
worse than none: a stretched logo, a badly cropped product photo, or an empty
grey box. When someone shares your store on WhatsApp, iMessage, LinkedIn, Facebook,
X (Twitter), Slack or Telegram, that platform has to pick an image for the post.
Your theme gives it one, and your SEO plugin gives it the same one for every product.
FastOG gives every share a **designed card built from that page’s real content**,
the
moment the link is shared:
* **Automatic live prices and sale badges on social shares.** Product covers draw
the
price from your catalogue, so the number in the preview is the number on
the page — including a sale badge when the product is discounted.
* **A designed card per page type**, not one image reused everywhere:
- **Product pages** — product photo, name, live price and sale badge.
- **Product categories** — the category image and title.
- **Shop / front page** — your brand and tagline.
- **Blog posts** — title, excerpt and featured image.
* **Zero server load — 100% offloaded rendering.** Covers are rendered and cached
by
FastOG and `og:image` points at that cache. Your host never runs a headless
browser, never stores a generated image, and never eats the bandwidth of a social
crawl. Nothing to manage, and nothing to re-export when a price changes.
### What you get
* **No manual design work.** No Photoshop, no Canva, no designer backlog. Pick
a
starting look in **FastOG Studio** and covers build themselves from your catalogue.
* **Prices that stay current.** Cards come from live product data, so a price change
or
a new sale badge appears on the next share — not on a stale image cached
months ago.
* **Covers that never go stale.** A cover’s URL contains the settings that produced
it,
so editing a cover produces a new URL and social platforms fetch the new
image instead of showing the old one. No cache-busting hacks, no “scrape again”
instructions.
* **The Facebook preview refreshes itself.** Every platform caches link previews,
and
Facebook keeps its copy until something tells it the page changed — which
is why an edited cover commonly shows up on Facebook as the old image for weeks.
FastOG tells it. Saving a product asks Facebook to re-scrape that page, so the
new card goes live without you opening the Sharing Debugger.
* **What we cannot refresh, we say out loud.** Facebook is the only platform that
lets
anyone ask for a refresh. On WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X and the rest we can
only make sure the correct image is waiting for their next read — when they take
it is their schedule, not ours. We would rather tell you that than sell you a
promise we cannot keep.
* **No GD, no font uploads, no rewrite endpoints.** Because we render, your server
needs
no image library, no fonts to install and no `/social-image.jpg` endpoint
that 404s — the failure modes that make self-hosted image plugins collapse on
ordinary hosting.
* **Plays nice with your SEO plugin.** If Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress
is active, FastOG hands its cover to that plugin instead of printing a competing
tag that social crawlers might ignore. One image, one set of tags, no conflict.
* **Works with or without WooCommerce.** WordPress alone gets front page and blog
post
covers. Add WooCommerce and product, category and shop pages get theirs
too.
* **No free riders.** Every FastOG plan is paid — there is no free tier — so the
render
capacity and bandwidth your covers depend on serve stores that pay for
them, not a queue of free accounts. What you pay for is a service that is fast,
reliable and dedicated to its customers, and that is the only way we can promise
it.
* **Served from our infrastructure, not yours.** Renders happen on our own render
service and are delivered from our own cache and edge, never from your hosting
and never through a third-party image CDN you have to wire up and monitor. We
own the serving path, the bandwidth and the uptime; your site only signs a URL.
### Try it free
**14-day free trial — no credit card.** Connect your site, choose which page types
get
a cover, pick a look, and share a link. Every starting look stays editable
in **FastOG Studio whenever you want to restyle.
* FastOG Service Terms: https://fastog.com/terms
* FastOG Privacy Policy: https://fastog.com/privacy
* Service Pricing & Plans: https://fastog.com
### Which pages get a cover
The four page types above. Every other URL — pages, tags, date and author archives,
custom post types — is left exactly as it was, so your theme or SEO plugin keeps
control of it. FastOG only touches the shares that benefit from a designed card.
## Screenshots
[⌊Product cover — photo, name, price and a sale badge that updates automatically.⌉⌊
Product cover — photo, name, price and a sale badge that updates automatically.⌉[
Product cover — photo, name, price and a sale badge that updates automatically.
[⌊Product shot cover — the standard product-card look.⌉⌊Product shot cover — the
standard product-card look.⌉[
Product shot cover — the standard product-card look.
[⌊Collection cover — category image and title.⌉⌊Collection cover — category image
and title.⌉[
Collection cover — category image and title.
[⌊Promo / launch cover — your brand on every share.⌉⌊Promo / launch cover — your
brand on every share.⌉[
Promo / launch cover — your brand on every share.
## Installation
From zero to a shared, designed card in about two minutes:
1. Upload the `fastog-for-woocommerce` folder to `wp-content/plugins/`, or install
the plugin from the admin.
2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** screen.
3. Open **FastOG Studio Setup** and follow the three steps: connect this site, choose
which page types get a cover, and pick a starting look. Activation itself contacts
nothing — connecting is the step that does.
4. Open **Studio** to see the covers. Every starting look stays editable there.
WooCommerce is optional: without it, FastOG covers your front page and blog posts.
Product, product category and shop covers need WooCommerce.
The first FastOG Studio screen shows sample product, sale, collection and shop covers
before connection. These are fictional examples; your catalogue is not read until
you start setup.
## FAQ
### Why do my shared links look generic?
Most stores ship no Open Graph image for product and category pages, so social
platforms fall back to a logo or a blank tile. FastOG prints a designed `og:image`
for every page type, so every share gets a card worth clicking.
### My product previews are cropped or blurry on WhatsApp and LinkedIn. Is that this?
That is the usual symptom: the platform crops whatever image it was given to 1200
×630.
A product photo that is square or tall gets its sides or its top cut off,
and a logo tile gets stretched. FastOG serves a card already composed at 1200×630
with the product photo fitted inside it, so the platform has nothing left to crop.
### Can the preview show the price and a sale badge?
Yes. Product covers are drawn from live catalogue data, so the price on the card
matches
the price on the page, and a discounted product gets a sale badge. Every
plan draws these fields — they are never locked to a higher tier. If a price changes
after a link was shared, the next share draws the new price.
### My price changed and the old image is still showing.
On Facebook, FastOG already handled it: the plugin registers WooCommerce’s own product
webhooks, so saving a product asks Facebook to re-read that page and the new card
normally replaces the old preview within seconds. You do not need the Sharing Debugger.
If Facebook is still showing the old card, press **Purge caches** on the FastOG
Studio screen and confirm the product’s page itself is serving the new `og:image`.
WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X are a different story, and we will not pretend otherwise:
none
of them lets anyone request a refresh, so we cannot push one. What we can
do is make sure the right image is waiting — cover URLs change with the cover, so
their next read gets the new card. When that read happens is up to them; LinkedIn
and X typically re-read within about a week. Their own inspectors (LinkedIn Post
Inspector, X Card Validator) can nudge that if you are in a hurry.
### Which platforms refresh automatically?
Facebook, and only Facebook, because it is the only one that offers a programmatic
refresh — that is what FastOG calls when you save a product. Every other platform
either caches a preview we cannot reach (WhatsApp keeps it in the recipient’s app)
or exposes no way to ask at all (LinkedIn, X). Those follow their own schedule,
and a share that was cached before your edit can keep showing the old card until
they re-read.
### Do I need WooCommerce?
Not for the covers themselves. Without WooCommerce, FastOG covers your front
page
and blog posts from WordPress data alone. WooCommerce adds the storefront page types:
product, product category and shop covers read your catalogue, so those three need
it installed and active.
### Will this slow down my site?
No. Covers are rendered and cached on FastOG and served from there, so your
server
only signs a URL — there are no images generated or stored on your hosting and no
impact on page speed.
### I use an SEO plugin. Which one wins?
FastOG does. If Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress is active, we do not
print a competing `` — a second one does not override
the first, it competes with it, and social crawlers take the first they find. Instead
your FastOG cover is handed to that plugin, so it prints our image with its own
title, description and URL. Without an SEO plugin, FastOG prints the full set of
Open Graph and Twitter card tags itself.
### Does the plugin load external code?
No. The editor’s script and stylesheet are bundled inside the plugin and served
from your own site. The only requests that leave your server are the FastOG API
calls the Studio editor makes when you open it.
### When does this send site information to FastOG?
Only after you explicitly choose **Start setup**. Activation and ordinary
admin
page loads do not contact FastOG.
### Does this send customer data to FastOG?
No. Only a site-level profile (site name, site URL, WordPress/WooCommerce/PHP
versions
and locale) is sent when you connect. No customer, order, or other personal data
is transmitted.
### Where are the card images hosted?
On FastOG. `og:image` URLs point at FastOG, so your site doesn’t need extra
storage
or a CDN.
### Is there a free trial?
Yes — 14 days, no credit card required. Connect your site and the full setup is
available to try before you decide on a plan. Pricing and plans are at https://fastog.
com.
### Is there a free plan?
No, and that is deliberate. A free tier would spend render capacity, bandwidth and
support on stores that never convert, and the only way to pay for it would be to
make the paid service slower or thinner. Instead every plan is paid, so what you
buy is a service whose whole capacity is dedicated to its customers — that is what
keeps covers fast and the platform reliable. The 14-day trial is there so you can
judge the covers on your own catalogue before paying anything.
### Do I have to finish setup?
No. Until you finish it, FastOG points Studio and Plan at Setup so nothing
half-
configured goes live — and **Skip setup for now** lifts that immediately. Tools
is never held back: that is where you reconnect or disconnect.
### How do I make a changed cover show up?
Cover URLs contain the settings that produced them, so editing a cover produces
a
new URL. A page cache can keep serving the old one — press **Purge caches** on
the FastOG Studio screen. After that, Facebook is refreshed for you (saving a product
asks Facebook to re-read the page); WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X pick up the new image
on their own next read.
### What happens when I uninstall the plugin?
Deleting the plugin removes everything it stored on your site, including its access
key, from every site on a multisite network. Your store record and cover images
on FastOG stay in your FastOG account, where you can delete them; covers already
shared in social posts keep working until that record is removed.
### I had this installed before the FastOG rename — do I lose my setup?
No. The stored credentials (API key, secret and tier) are migrated automatically,
so there is nothing to re-enter.
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## Contributors & Developers
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## Changelog
#### 0.1.0
* Initial release: connection to FastOG, Open Graph and Twitter card tags for
product, product category, shop/front page and blog post pages, hand-off to installed
SEO plugins, and the FastOG Studio admin screen.
## Meta
* Version **0.1.0**
* Last updated **2 hours ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.1.2**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Tags
* [social media](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-media/)[social sharing](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-sharing/)
[twitter cards](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter-cards/)[woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
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