[Plugin: WP Facebook Open Graph protocol] Meta Description Issues/Improvements/request

Hi

You can do this hack into the plugin code. it works nice for me as i had the same problem as you had. Find the next piece of code in the plugin and change the bolded line :

// do descriptions
                if (is_singular('post')) {
                        if (has_excerpt($post->ID)) { // truncate_post($et_excerpt_length);
                                echo "\t<meta property='og:description' content='".esc_attr(strip_tags(get_the_excerpt($post->ID)))."' />\n";
                        }else{
				<strong>echo "\t<meta property='og:description' content='".get_bloginfo('description')."' />\n";</strong>

                        }

with:

<strong>echo "\t<meta property='og:description' content='".esc_attr(substr(strip_tags($post->post_content), 0, 255))."...' />\n";</strong>

Oh well it seems that code tags with strong tags are not geting along well.

Once again, change the first:

echo “\t<meta property=’og:description’ content='”.get_bloginfo(‘description’).”‘ />\n”;

with

echo “\t<meta property=’og:description’ content='”.esc_attr(substr(strip_tags($post->post_content), 0, 255)).”…’ />\n”;

You can also define how many characters to be displayed in the description. I wanted 255.

Hey guys.. I don’t get notifications when ppl add support requests on here… :/ lame.

Anyways – I never put a priority on that functionality initially as most people that beta tested for me were cool with customizing it, however I understand the desire for said functionality. Therefore this is scheduled for final testing currently in the beta I have and will very likely be included with the next update.
So standby – and thanks for the support req.

Thanks for this great plugin!

Can we have the option to limit the description by word length with “…” at the end, rather than character count?

@eminemdrdre00 what word length were you thinking. I made it 160 as to keep with the length that Facebook will display before cutting it off. I didn’t do the … as it’s annoying and also takes up more characters. IMO people should be crafting their own custom descriptions not letting an autogenerator do it for them – but that’s just me.