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"Preview" information for site (facebook etc.)

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  • 14-07-2014 9:21pm
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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,646 ✭✭✭✭


    So you're familiar with posting links on facebook, FB will parse the link and show users an Image from the page, and sometimes preview text.

    For my site homepage http://joncharron.info it shows the Mail button, the page name from the Tab, and no summary text (because well, there is none)

    What do I do to embed a page summary and tell it which image to use as a preview?


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    #2
    colm_c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭colm_c


    You can use custom meta tags that facebook will read, have a look here:
    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/maximizing-distribution-media-content#tags

    e.g.


    [HTML]<meta property="og:title" content="The title you want to appear on facebook" /> [/HTML]


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,646 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Thanks.

    Won't know if I did it right until the internet crawls through again I presume


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,490 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Overheal wrote: »
    Won't know if I did it right until the internet crawls through again I presume
    Don't have to wait - post the link in a Facebook status update and see what content is pulled in after a few secs. If you wait the few secs you won't even have to post the update.


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