Chuck Reynolds
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In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Open Graph meta property=article:authorIn order for that to work you’d need to get the facebook profile URL for each author, and that’s not something that’s built into WP by default and adding author metaboxes for FB urls isn’t something I wanted to add to this plugin. I get that you’re asking the plugin to just scan for profile fields matching “facebook_url” but again… that’s specific use case.
I’d probably just suggest adding that to your functions file and outputting the meta for article:author yourself into wp_head
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In reply to: [WP Popular Posts] sticky post have priority at top?yup got it. that’s fairly simple – i was thinking more about weighting the metafield entry if a post was stickied but this is easier and I don’t need anything more advanced at the moment.
also you forgot the $query-> before the_post(); but I know what you meant 🙂
Thanks man.
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In reply to: [Custom Contact Forms] Manage Form – Does not work!So for reference my “Manage form” button didnt even load… turn on debug and query monitor… turns out “WP REST API Version 2.0-beta13” has the issue. As soon as I disabled it – CCF works fine.
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In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Images on a custom pageyour theme disabled the featured image feature? that sucks lol. The plugin looks through the_content() for images; i’m assuming that loop doesn’t filter the_content and adds them before or after the_content().
See if you can’t work in an image into the content box when editing the post in wp-admin so it’s picked up? #optionForum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Images on a custom pageHey Sam
First off I understand where you’re coming from with the images… obviously very important for what you’re doing there; and also yay for adoptions and rescues 🙂Okay so the problem lies in how the images are put into the content; looks like you’re using a visual composer theme or something. So the image discovery thing in this plugin is fairly simple… if there are images in the wordpress content section it’ll pull them out… if there’s a gallery plugin or a theme that does some sort of gallery (like what i’m assuming is happening here) it doesn’t look for all that as there are far too many variations of plugins/themes to check for.
That said.. I’d recommend adding one image you’d like to be shown on Facebook to each post as the Featured Image. Now… I’m not sure how your theme handles those and if it displays those oddly but… that would allow this plugin to say “hey that’s an important image, let’s use it”.
The next version of this plugin, currently forever in beta (i’m too busy with clients), will be better at sniffing out images but frankly, and again, I can’t test for all themes / plugins. But it will be focused more on the featured image than anything. So you can adjust for your issue now and for the next plugin version by using featured images.
Hope that helps. Take care of the animals and cheers!
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In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Facebook ID Not Requiredyeah FB has changed that requirement since the last major release – it’s something i’ll adjust for in the next major release; currently in github beta
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] About the "og:description"at the moment there’s no way to ‘choose’ which you’d like, it’s merely a fallback and for certain pages. having less/little options was the entire point of the plugin. perhaps there will be a way to filter for that in the next version of the plugin that’s in beta now.
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In reply to: [Query Monitor] WP CLI Activation Doesn't seem to attach the admin menuJust to jump into this one; I had this request open: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-show-in-admin-bar-front-or-backend
Activating the plugin via wp-admin/plugins.php does work fine; and after doing so deactivating and reactivating via wp-cli then seems to work fine. It just seems on initial activation the problem happens.
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In reply to: [Query Monitor] Doesn't show in admin bar front or backendOk just got back from out of town – sorry on slow recall.
SO. If I activate it via the WP plugins page – it works on my local and staging site. If I activate via wp-cli it doesn’t work at all.
NOW if I deactivate then activate it via wp-cli it works fine; I think it’s just if on first install or moving db.php symlink or maybe updating the plugin the wp-cli won’t work on first activation. At least I know I can activate via wp-admin and it should work.
So I’m closing this support request but there’s still an issue obviously. Thanks for the help. Cheers.
Got it. php 5.5.x deprecated that I see. Will get in next version.
Thanks for the heads up, cheers!Do you mean (1) update the image link in the settings of the plugin? Or (2) update the photo that’s shown when you put the link into Facebook? Big difference.
For 1: That definitely shouldn’t be doing that and would throw an error – can you provide any errors from your error log showing that’s happening?
For 2: use the Facebook Debugger to refresh their cache: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
No good way to do that really; you could put a blank space in the excerpt but WP may clear that out on save. But FB will create a description for your page/post if you don’t supply one anyways so
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In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Og:description and og:image both not set😀 Yeah i was just looking into it and it works great. FB is strange… sometimes it works… sometimes it doesn’t… if it doesn’t… give them a couple hours to fix whatever they broke… rescan with debugger and things magically fix themselves. As odd as that is… that’s fairly normal with them.
Anyways… your OGP data looks good… Cheers!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] How to force only 1 Og: imageHey mestrevillo
Currently there isn’t a way to only choose and show one image. The way it was built was for how FB and Linkedin worked at the time. They change how they accept OGP data quite regularly. FB still handles that fairly well… and to be honest I never go on linkedin because I hate that site and their endless bugs and horrible UI decisions lol.
That said…. I’d have to look into their docs, if they even updated them, to see why they wouldn’t just choose one of the images given to them?????? There’s no reason they shouldn’t… but again it’s linkedin so. who knows.All THAT said… If I ever finish it, (too much client work and life), the new version of this plugin i’ve started building will choose ONLY ONE image and present that in code. Due to random issues like this and the fact that people have galleries and lots of images in their posts it seems the better decision is for me to builder better logic in choosing an image and present only one. So… the new version, which is in beta and available on my github to try, does only present one image in code. So there’s that.
I hope that helps, at least understand what’s going on, and maybe you can use the new beta, and/or help finish development and testing of it 🙂
Cheers
Hey Mathieu; I’ve had a new version in the works for some time; just hasn’t been a priority with my consistent client load. I’ll make an issue on my github repo to reference this to remember to look into it when I get time.
link: https://github.com/chuckreynolds/WPFBOGP/issues/66