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Modify how the shared item appears on Facebook

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  • 09-03-2013 9:51pm
    #1
    missmyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭


    Hi,

    When my website url is posted on Facebook it brings up the first picture on the homepage of the site and a short description. I would like to change the picture to one of my own choice and amend the description. Having read some notes I believe you have to use open graph tags to do so? I have added these in. As nothing has changed when I type the URL into Facebook I am not sure if I have entered it wrong or it just takes time to update. I am not a developer so would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. I am using Wordpress and the header code below is my amended version

    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' :'; } ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
    <meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>">
    <meta name="author" content="">
    <meta property="og:title" content="MySite"/>
    <meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
    <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.adoptapet.ie/wp-content/themes/AAP/images/thumbnail.jpg"/&gt;
    <meta property="og:url" content="http://mysite.ie/"/&gt;
    <meta property="og:site_name" content="mysite.ie"/>
    <meta property="og:fb:admins" content=""/>

    Thanks


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    #2
    OneIdea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭OneIdea


    when I type the URL into Facebook
    Type your http:// url here to see what facebook sees https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug or is that what you meant above


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    #3
    missmyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭missmyler


    Thanks. A plugin was conflicting with the image so after removing a couple of days ago I can now see the image that I wish to use in Facebook debugger but not when typed in to Facebook itself. It is still picking up the first image that is on the homepage

    I am getting the following errors - The second error says that the picture I have chosen is too small. The one I am using is 800px by 800px and they state should be between 200px and 1500px

    Meta with name instead of property.
    The meta tag on the page was specified with name 'author', which matches a configured property of this object type. It will be ignored unless specified with the meta property attribute instead of the meta name attribute.

    og:image should be larger.
    Provided og:image is not big enough. Please use an image that's at least 200x200 and preferably 1500x1500. (Maximum image size is 5MB.) Image 'http://mysite.ie/wp-content/themes/AAP/timthumb.php?src=http://mysite.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SS101033.jpg&amp;w=150&amp;h=150&amp;zc=1' will be used instead.


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