Documentation for Dummies?

  • Resolved dcoplan

    (@dcoplan)


    9 years ago

    Is there any documentation for this plug-in that explains what all the options do in a very basic, easy to understand way?

    For example: fb:app_id. What is this? Why do I care? What are my choices? All I know is that it has to do with Facebook.

    Some of the options seem obvious but others are confusing. Here’s another example: og:site_name

    The description says ‘From blog title’. My theme uses a blog section to format the look of the site but my site is not a blog site so I don’t want the title of the blog section to be the title of my site. So I just turn that off? What do I turn on instead to put the site name I want?

    These are just a few examples.

    Is there any way to test these changes? I just added an image for my site (og:image) but it didn’t show up in FB when I posted my site. I read that it may take some time so how do I test right away?

    I would just like clear descriptions to explain what each option does so I fully understand the changes I can make. Thank you.

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  • Hi there dcoplan,

    Unfortunately there’s no such documentation.

    If your website is a registered Facebook app, you should set the ID on fb:app_idto associate the links with your app.

    og:site_nameis normally your website title.

    To force the og:image cache refresh on the Facebook side you must “Fetch new scrap information” on https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    Thread Starter dcoplan

    (@dcoplan)

    Ok. I’m requesting documentation for the benefit of everyone who uses your plugin. I would think it would be very easy to write and help a lot of people.

    I agree. It’s not obvious what the settings mean and where they are pulling data from

    I agree as well. I’m having a lot more trouble setting this up than I usually have with plug-ins.

    Two areas of clarification would help greatly:

    1) Facebook App ID

    Facebook app specified in fb:app_id meta tag is not published yet. App attribution will be disabled when shared stories are rendered. Please check the status in the app settings.

    What is needed for app review for verification / publish y/n and what would the settings look like specifically for the notes sections of this plugin?
    No instruction or documentation to set this up properly.

    2) How to get WordPress to point to the proper og-URL and Canonical URL. Must every domain’s DNS be set up using a CName rec? Why do all standard posts work perfectly when sharing, even some Custom Post Types while there are a handful of CPT that continually redirect to the Canonical URL displaying as 301. No instruction or documentation to set this up properly.

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