Show Thread Enhancements - Facebook / Open Graph (og:description) / (og:title) tag fixes for VB 4.1.10+ by BOP5

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For some reason vBulletin 4.x does not use the thread's meta description when populating the open graph "description" tag that is read by Facebook and other social networking sites. Instead by default vBulletin uses your site default meta description that is set in Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details.

This default description is usually very generic whereas the thread description is the first few sentences of the thread and therefore usually far more useful to describe the page actually being shared than your generic site description.

Also even with the Facebook Platform enabled vBulletin doesn't provide an open graph title tag at all- while in practice this isn't a big deal as Facebook will default to the page title, as a matter of good practice it should be explicitly provided.

This mod fixes both issues. It will override the generic description with the thread's meta description which is based on the text of the first post. It also adds an explicit og:title tag.

New In Version 1.2.0 - The mod now also greatly improves the open graph tag description tag for blog entries. By default the description tag is the blog title followed by the username of the blog poster. With this mod the description becomes up to a 300 character preview of the actual blog entry instead. And the open graph title tag provided takes the form of blog title Posted By username.

Blog Demo: http://www.totallycommercials.com/en...ckbuster-Video
Thread Demo: http://www.totallycommercials.com/sh...how-Commercial
(View page source or better yet, share on Facebook to see the differences. )

This mod is only for people with VB 4.1.10 or higher and only if you have the Facebook Platform enabled in your settings. It will do nothing if both of those do not apply to you.

There are no settings- just install the product and the mod is active.

To see the difference use the Facebook Debugger to look at the content scraped off a thread page before and after instillation-
Facebook Debugger is here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

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[Gripi]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Have you switched on the Facebook options, in the Options/Facebook Admin page?

Yes.. switched on

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Please post or PM a link to a thread on your site.

PM-ed.. thank you.

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Joe if it is [OzzModz] First Post On All Pages Per Thread/Forum let me know.

Gripi, are you using the Atakan one, or mine? Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

Hello..

I already disable the "[OzzModz] First Post On All Pages Per Thread/Forum", but still blank.

And i use the Atakan for the Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

[ozzy47]

Ok glad top hear it is not a conflict with one of my mods, hopefully Bop5 will figure it out for you.

[jb-net]

Thanks for your great work!

Is there a way to integrate the metatags without having to activate facebook in the AdminCP and enter an FB App ID?

[BirdOPrey5]

Not with this mod.

[rkhyd]

Great.. fixed the problem for me..donated some $

[fxdigi-cash]

do we still need this mod ?? because there a lot of facebook fixes all around here!

[VHLinks]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Do you by chance have installed VSa - Forums Online CountUp installed?- I found out recently that mod causes such problems with the Facebook Open Graph array.

Just curious if we ever found a work around for this?

[BirdOPrey5]

No. Sorry.

[mykkal]

Hi there I have a question. Is there a way to integrate this with the mobile style? I see the facebook "like" button vb natively installs but for whatever reason this mod doesn't seem to add the sharing options to the mobile style. Thats an issue for me because 64% of my traffic is mobile.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Hi there I have a question. Is there a way to integrate this with the mobile style? I see the facebook "like" button vb natively installs but for whatever reason this mod doesn't seem to add the sharing options to the mobile style. Thats an issue for me because 64% of my traffic is mobile.

Are you sure? This mod just adds more details to the open graph tags in the header (doesn't add sharing options...) and those tags do indeed work in the mobile style on my test site.

Example random link to a random thread and mobile style: http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...but?styleid=13

If you look at the source of the page all the og tags are there with the relevant title and descriptions.

Maybe you are thinking of my More Sharing Options TNG mod?