Posting Excerpt – Where does it get that data

  • Anonymous User 8052865

    (@anonymized-8052865)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    I am using a custom theme “Auto Dealer” by Gorilla Themes.
    When it posts to facebook, it posts the same “tag line” type meta data.
    I cant seem to find where it gets this data.

    I’d like to hack the Wordbooker code on this specific site to grab other post data, but not sure how or where to look where it is getting this data.

    The standard excerpt is pulled from somewhere I can’t find either. I have edited every place for the paragraph that is is publishing but the excerpt on FB never changes.

    I probably can hack it if anyone points me in the right direction.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordbooker/

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  • Plugin Author Steve

    (@steveatty)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    What do you mean by tag line type meta data?

    Wordbooker gets its text from the user generated post extract or if that isn’t there then Wordbooker creates it from the first X hundred characters of the body text for the post.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 8052865

    (@anonymized-8052865)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Correction “Car Dealer” by Gorilla Themes.

    I mean when it posts to facebook, it grabs a footer item that is text instead of any of the data in the actual posts. “Meta data” in the post.

    http://hipmotorcars.com if you want to see the site.
    My assumption is the single-post page has been modified and wordbooker does not grab the write data.

    So I am trying to figure out how to hack word booker to find the right data in the post and not this paragraph in the bottom left of the footer.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 8052865

    (@anonymized-8052865)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Steve you want to email me?
    I am a donator as well ieatatthebar, devilscove

    Plugin Author Steve

    (@steveatty)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Right now I’m on holiday – spending thankgiving with my grandchildren. So I’m not doing a lot of coding.

    as Wordbooker doesn’t scrape the output of the entire page (just the post contents) I guess that that theme delegates the WordPress post content to something in the footer and then either uses a custom table to store its post data OR it stores it in the post meta for the post itself. If it stores it in the post meta then its a minor change to make wordbooker use a post_meta field as its source of data.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 8052865

    (@anonymized-8052865)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    It is no rush. Please enjoy your time off, as I appreciate how hard you work with the code, as well as fight facebook with their constant changes.

    I am sure it is the hacked up theme I am using. I will look at “post_meta” and see if that might work.

    I’ll post an update if I find anything.

    Plugin Author Steve

    (@steveatty)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Probably the best place to look is in the code for the page layout – that should give some indication on what its doing. If it is pulling from post meta then its not going to take much time to add the support into Wordbooker – I’ll probably only add it into Version 2.2 which I’m determined to get out before the end of the year – the beta versions seem to be very solid – well its either that or no-one is using them!

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