vidmarc Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 When I post a link to our website to social media, the same (old) product image is displayed. Is there a way to change this somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 I recall a conversation on these forums that is quite old (a few years) that discussed what the social media scanner needs in order to identify what exact image to use. That conversation dealt with a specific social media platform - I don't remember which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidmarc Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 With Facebook it seems to extract the same tired old image. We need Open Graph meta tagging. https://ogp.me/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 If Facebook, it may be Facebook's problem. I did a short Internet search for facebook update image post and found a number of entries about Facebook's cache. https://www.webhostinghero.com/how-to-refresh-the-post-image-shared-on-facebook/ https://johndopp.com/writers/how-to-update-facebook-preview-thumbnails/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidmarc Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 See post above yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 For specific info on a per-product basis, this plugin may be of use. Be sure to ask the author about its capabilities: https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/plugins/deluxe-social-media-posts There is also this conversation: https://forums.cubecart.com/topic/50695-facebook-posts-bad-formatting/ And this: https://forums.cubecart.com/topic/54230-wrong-image-showing-when-pasting-link-to-facebook-message/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabriceunko Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On 9/28/2019 at 6:07 PM, bsmither said: For specific info on a per-product basis, this plugin may be of use. Be sure to ask the author about its capabilities: https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/plugins/deluxe-social-media-posts Hello, I have this plugin unfortunately it does not work under cubecart 6.2.6 it is necessary to wait for an update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidmarc Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 More info can be found here. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 I have this in my element.meta.php file. (I use the large image in my skin code.) <meta property="og:image:width" content="800" /> <link rel="image_src" href="{$PRODUCT.large}"/> <meta property="og:image:url" content="{$PRODUCT.large}"/> <meta property="og:url" content="{$VAL_SELF}"/> <meta property="og:type" content="product"/> <meta property="og:title" content="{$PRODUCT.name}"/> <meta property="fb:admins" content="xxxxxx"/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="{$CONFIG.store_name}"/> <meta property="og:description" content="{if isset($META_DESCRIPTION)}{$META_DESCRIPTION}{/if}"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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