How to customize the post sent to facebook & twitter?

  • Resolved Anointed

    (@anointed)


    11 years ago

    I have a custom post-type ‘videos’ which also has a metabox with post-meta ‘custom_video_url’. This metabox stores a simple video url where the video itself supports oEmbed.

    What I want:
    For this ‘video’ post-type, when I broadcast to facebook, I want the actual video to show up on the timeline instead of the featured thumbnail.

    Right now, it seems that social has no idea that I even have custom post-meta fields available and so it does not even attempt to send the custom_video_url oEmbed link.

    Is this possible with social?

    If so, where do I find the documentation on how best to modify social so that I can do this?

    thanks

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social/

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  • Thread Starter Anointed

    (@anointed)

    11 years ago

    I should mention, that I believe there are going to be a lot of people asking the same thing very soon. WordPress 3.6 focuses on post-formats, and I can imagine that a lot of people would rather send ‘formatted’ information to facebook, twitter such as the video once 3.6 is released.

    While my case is a bit different, post-types, vs. post-formats, the request and underlying question is basically the same.

    I’m kind of hoping there is a simple filter that I can attach an action to in order to change what is sent depending upon the data type available.

    Alex King

    (@alexkingorg)

    10 years, 12 months ago

    There is code in Social that posts differently to Facebook based on post format, use that as an example along with the provided hooks to create your plugin.

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