Mini Mods - RedInk Design - Smart OG Image Tag

Currently vBulletin's facebook open graph image tag uses what's entered in Options -> Facebook Options -> Image URL. If you leave this field blank, the <og:image> meta tag is omitted and Facebook's crawler will try to use any image found on the page.

This mod looks for the first [img] or [attach] tags in a post and uses that image for the <og:image> meta tag. This will tell facebook's crawler to use that image for the post.

This mod requires the Facebook Platform to be enabled on vBulletin (Options -> Facebook Options -> Enable Facebook Platform).

It will first look for an [img] tag is the post, if none is found, it will look for an [attach] tag. If neither is found, it will use the Image you entered in the facebook options (Options -> Facebook Options -> Image URL). If that field was left empty, it will omit the <og:image> tag which is default vBulletin behavior.

This was only tested on 4.2.0 (PL3).

Installation:
Admin -> Plugin & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

Update 12/4/2013
Changed image priorities - avatar and site logo are not priority

Update 11/19/2013
Plugin updated to support multiple images

[sweetpotato]

Originally Posted by redinkdesign

This mod does not alter existing OG tags, only the <og:image> tag. The issue you're having is with the default vBulletin tags.

I will double check with this. For the time being, when I share threads to Facebook, some show thread tittle and some show site name.
Thanks for the nice mod,

[suko22]

Any chance for 3.8??

Or any suggestion to make first pic in post to be og:image??

Thanks!!

[redinkdesign]

Sorry, I don't have a 3.8 installation to test, I would have to set one up.

By default this plugin grabs the first pic in the post and sets that as og:image. It will look for the first [img] tag.

Originally Posted by suko22

Any chance for 3.8??

Or any suggestion to make first pic in post to be og:image??

Thanks!!

[suko22]

Originally Posted by redinkdesign

Sorry, I don't have a 3.8 installation to test, I would have to set one up.

By default this plugin grabs the first pic in the post and sets that as og:image. It will look for the first [img] tag.

Thanks, the problem is that facebook is not showing any thumbnails when I share a post from my forum (vb 3.8).

I'm trying to force the first image of the post (with [IMG] bbcode) to become og: image, but don?t know how.

Bye!

[suko22]

Any advice will be tremendously grateful, of course..

[Bob_R]

So let me get this straight. If you have an image entered in (Options -> Facebook Options -> Image URL) this mod is useless?

[final kaoss]

This mod is for VB4 NOT VB3.

Originally Posted by suko22

Thanks, the problem is that facebook is not showing any thumbnails when I share a post from my forum (vb 3.8).

I'm trying to force the first image of the post (with [IMG] bbcode) to become og: image, but don?t know how.

Bye!

[cdoyle]

This doesn't seem to be working for me, I have the plugin installed, and FB enabled.
But when you like a thread that has images, it posts to FB but no thumbnail is displayed.

Is there something else that I need to do?
I'm running VB Version 4.2

[cdoyle]

anyone have any ideas?

[redinkdesign]

It seems facebook now only supports images bigger than 200x200 for og:image tags.
Put your page url in https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and see what comes back.

Originally Posted by cdoyle

This doesn't seem to be working for me, I have the plugin installed, and FB enabled.
But when you like a thread that has images, it posts to FB but no thumbnail is displayed.

Is there something else that I need to do?
I'm running VB Version 4.2