Twitter Sharing Style

  • Resolved siouxchief

    (@siouxchief)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    I am currently using a plugin called ShareThisImage but it can be a bit flaky and the share overlays can disappear. What it does well is when it shares to Twitter it takes the image from the gallery and tweets it as a large image. Feel free to test via my link.

    The beauty of this large image tweet is people can see all my infographic detail without really clicking the link back to my site which is what I want.

    Just to add I haven’t added any Twitter card stuff to achieve this and obviously it works for every different image shared.

    Can your plugin do that too and I’ll migrate over to you?

    Thanks
    David

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author micropat

    (@micropat)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi David,

    A shared page’s preview image on Twitter is always set by a page’s Twitter Card meta tags.

    The Yoast plugin is handling the site’s meta tags, so you’ll want to look into setting the Twitter preview image within that plugin. You’ll also probably want to create a unique page per infographic instead of relying on a plugin to do it.

    That image sharing plugin adds Twitter Card meta tags on the new URLs it creates per image. Some trade-offs are that the plugin’s URLs will break if/when you stop using that plugin, and the new image pages create a duplicate content issue which may impact SEO.

    Definitely create a page per infographic if you have just a few infographics so far.

    Thread Starter siouxchief

    (@siouxchief)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you for that it is really interesting information to know as I didn’t understand how it worked to be honest.

    Those images currently are just dummy ones as you saw but when we start adding proper statistical infographics I think it could grow to 20 or 30 so a page per image might be awkward.

    I notice sharing on Foobox also creates the large Twitter card if you see here (click the cat):

    https://fooplugins.com/foobox/

    And interestingly on clicking the tweet it takes you right back to the image not just the page it was on. Maybe I just need to pay for that even if as you say it might cause SEO issues.

    If you guys ever mimic foobox in that specific way ill definitely be back as you have a great plugin.

    Kind regards
    David

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