A couple of questions about SSS

  • Resolved beggers

    (@beggers)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    I just installed this plugin and really like it! I have a couple of questions. And let me say that I also installed an OG program to help select the image.

    1. I can’t get the Twitter button to include an image.

    2. Facebook sometimes includes an image during submission but I often have to refresh the submission page to get the image to display.

    3. Pinterest works great for one image but if I have a bunch of red carpet photos it seems Pinterest’s own submission routine would be better choice since it offers a page of all the available photos.

    I’m sure there are simple answers to these. I look forward to hearing from you!

    My site is MovieDebuts.com and the SSS is at the end of the article. Thanks!

    Bryan

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

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  • Plugin Author Robin Cornett

    (@littlerchicken)

    Thank you for the kind words, and the questions. I’m going to take a bit of a roundabout way to answer by giving a bit of a big picture view. At its core, this plugin is intentionally very basic, because of not including any third party JavaScript, so it’s limited to 1) what each social network will accept in a plain URL sharing link, and 2) what information is available from your site’s database about a given post.

    So, for example, here is what each of the three networks you mentioned will “read” in the URL created for the sharing button:

    • Twitter: a string of text, the post URL, and optionally a username (kind of to indicate the source)
    • Facebook: the post URL
    • Pinterest: the post URL, a link to an image (this is required; Pinterest will error if there is no image link), and a description

    For those three networks, any information beyond that has to come from the OpenGraph data (Facebook will use this), meta tags (Twitter has its own), or JavaScript (Pinterest). So Scriptless, being very bare bones, can only “provide” the information listed above.

    I looked at the link you shared, and I do see the OpenGraph and Twitter meta tags, so those should be working. Facebook can be finicky with data that’s been cached, so that may be what you’re experiencing. Facebook and Twitter both have validators which you may want to try, but as far as I can tell, you have everything set up correctly with the other plugin, which is what would be handling this.

    The Pinterest URL can only link to one image, so if you want to offer multiple image choices, you may want to consider a sharing plugin which does use the Pinterest JavaScript.

    Hope that helps, Bryan–

    Thread Starter beggers

    (@beggers)

    Thanks for the great information. I’m still haven’t solved the Twitter image puzzle but this plugin is really good.

    Use an open graph plugin or an SEO plugins like the seo framework or yoast to output the meta tags and twitter will show your image.

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