post thumbnail as facebook share thumbnail

  • featherodd

    (@featherodd)


    16 years ago

    Anyone know a custom function or plugin to get the post-thumbnail src added to the header as a image meta tag so that facebook will properly pick up the thumbnail when a single post is passed to http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php 

    <meta name="image_type" content="POST-THUMBNAIL" />
<link rel="image_src" href="'POST-THUMBNAIL'" />
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  • Thread Starter featherodd

    (@featherodd)

    15 years, 12 months ago

    tried a bunch of solutions and this seemed to do the trick:

    added this to functions.php:

    function get_post_thumbnail_url() {
	$thumbnail_id=get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, thumbnail);
	preg_match ('/src="(.*)" class/',$thumbnail_id,$link);
	echo $link[1];
}

    and this to my header:

    <?php if (is_home()) : ?>
	<meta property="og:type" content="blog" />
<?php else : ?>
	<meta property="og:type" content="article">
	<link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="<?php get_post_thumbnail_url() ?>" />
	<meta property="og:image" content="<?php get_post_thumbnail_url() ?>"/>
<?php endif; ?>
    jdadour

    (@jdadour)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I’m having the same problem but this code isn’t working for me. Any help?

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