I am implementing various meta tags within my site. Many are aimed at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. To manage these tags easier I have grouped the related tags.
For instance:
<!-- DESCRIPTIONS -->
<meta name="description" content="Page description. No longer than 155 characters." />
<meta itemprop="description" content="This is the page description">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Page description less than 200 characters">
<meta property="og:description" content="Description Here" />
This will make it much quicker to insert the descriptions for each meta tag.
My question: Is there any reason Open Graph, Schema.org, Twitter Cards, or any other meta tags need to be:
grouped together and/or
be in a specific order?
Of course this assumes the meta tags are in the <head> of my site.
Most documentations don't mention a required or recommended order (Twitter, FB, OG).
According to this source the order matters for the Google+ button. I'm not sure if that is still true.
The order of the tags is not critical. But schema.org markup should be placed on the page itself, not in the head section with meta tags.
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I am trying to setup FB Catalogue using the FB pixel. When I try to select my pixel (already installed on the website), the error I get states
To use this pixel, you need to install required microdata tags on your website
On the FB documentation the suggestion is to use the protocols OpenGraph or Schema.org.
Here are the required tags for OpenGraph:
og:title: The title of the item.
og:description: A description of the item.
og:url: The complete URL for the product page.
og:image: A link to the image used on the product page.
product:brand: The brand name of the item.
product:availability: The current availability of the item. You can choose "in stock", "out of stock", "preorder", "available for order" or "discontinued".
product:condition: The current condition of the item. You can choose "new", "refurbished" or "used".
product:price:amount: The current price of the item. The current price of the item. Don't include symbols like "£" in the price.
product:price:currency: The currency for the price. The currency for the price, in ISO format (for example, GBP).
product:retailer_item_id: The retailer's ID for the item.
Example
<header>
...
<!-- Open Graph Metadata -->
<meta property="og:title" content="Facebook T-Shirt">
<meta property="og:description" content="Unisex Facebook T-shirt, Small">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://example.org/facebook">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.org/facebook.jpg">
<meta property="product:brand" content="Facebook">
<meta property="product:availability" content="in stock">
<meta property="product:condition" content="new">
<meta property="product:price:amount" content="9.99">
<meta property="product:price:currency" content="USD">
<meta property="product:retailer_item_id" content="facebook_tshirt_001">
<!-- End Open Graph Metadata -->
...
</header>
What I don't understand is if I have to manually add this information to each and every product I have on the website?
How do I setup this?
Yes you have to include all those necessary metadata tags to each page dynamically or if you have less than 50 pages then you can go with static implementation for each page, But it will be good to insert all these necessary metadata dynamically. OR you can include those into your product catalog feed sheet.
To add the microdata, you can use 2 different communication systems: OpenGraph or Schema.org. You can visit the Facebook for Developers website to learn how to set microdata tags for catalogs. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/product-catalog/update-options#microdata-tags
So,
I use Advanced Custom Fields on Wordpress to set an featured image that i host on flickr, this way i can query it perfectly in the template i am building.
But this image isn't in the content(text) of the post, so for example Facebook or Twitter or any social media to share posts to don't see this image.
So in posts wherefore i only have one image. Which i show on top of the post as background for the title won't be shown inside the content and therefore social media don't recognize it.
Bullet points:
Wordpress Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add a field to a post where in i paste the url of the picture on flickr.
I can perfectly query the URL and implement it in the template i am building.
But this means that this picture isn't in the post content(text). Therefore social media don't seem to see this picture and don't show a picture if users want to share a article from my website.
I really don't know how to solve this and i hope that somebody has a solution.
English isn't my first language so excuse me in case of any spelling or grammar errors.
I don't really get why you want to host your featured image outside WP or, more specifically, on Flickr... but if you can get its URL via ACF (I guess you're using an URL field) and the issue is Facebook or Twitter doesn't retrieve your image when you share your page, maybe you should implement Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags.
That's, in your header.php inside <head>:
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#youraccount" />
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="#youraccount" />
<meta property="og:title" content="The title" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.example.com/your-page" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.example.com/your-flickr-image-url" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Content description..." />
I am having some difficulty implementing a solution that I found via my research here (the actual accepted answer is not helpful and has been downvoted to Bolivian).
Problem: Facebook doesn't seem to recognize the OpenGraph meta tags that I have added to my Header.
What I know (or think I know): It is my understanding that by adding some appropriate opengraph meta tags, the content, such as YouTube video, should appear in the body of the "post" on Facebook.
What I have tried so far: Referring to the solution linked above, I have tried to implement this method.
In my examples, I'm embedding this video
https://www.youtube.com/v/BQBjVr1iHH4 in the following page
https://www.keithandthegirl.com/vip/bonus/episode/9/40/this-is-40 I
would like Facebook to show the YouTube video whenever anyone shares
my page on Facebook.
Option 1: setting the og:video to https://www.youtube.com/v/YOUTUBECODE
The meta tag will look like
<meta property='og:video' content='https://www.youtube.com/v/BQBjVr1iHH4' />
Further, I have attempted to disable plugins which may conflict with this -- any plugins which appear to add OG meta tags.
On the code side: I have hard-coded the following meta tags in the Header (this will eventually become a PHP function or something, but not until/unless I can make it work on a single post):
<meta property='og:image' content='http://agnarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-01-22.02.37.jpg' />
<meta property='og:video' content='https://www.youtube.com/v/dt6pPdz5eqg' />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="854" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="510" />
<meta property="og:type" content="video">
Observed behavior:
All I see is the post's featured image. When I schedule or submit this link to my facebook page, Facebook does not recognize the OpenGraph tags and does not render the embedded video as part of the content of this Facebook post:
Desired behavior:
This is at odds with the suggested method, which if I use the URL provided in that answer, I can see the embedded video player:
I build a new wordpress site and installed the Yoast SEO plugin.
My homepage defined as some of my pages.
When i post the link on facebook i can't see any description/title/image that i want
checked on - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
i got:
og:type article
(i think that In order to work should appear : website)
maybe someone knows Where I'm wrong?
Thank you!
Facebook uses OpenGraph, a protocol for which if no default values are defined (and you have no standard HTML <meta> values defined,) you can set certain properties so that your site will appear as you want it when you share it socially.
It should be noted that Opengraph will, by default, attempt to interpret these properties by their corresponding <meta> elements (stuff like <meta name="description" content="describe my site">).
If you don't have these, I suggest you add them, but the OpenGraph properties can be defined explicitly, too. The process for adding properties like this involve the use of the <meta> tag, typically in your header.php.
There are a lot of properties you can define
I think most pertinent to your situation would be:
<meta property="og:image" content="path/to/image">
<meta property="og:title" content="My cool website">
<meta property="og:description" content="Description of site">
These work for sites that use OpenGraph, but it's no substitute for having proper <meta> tags in the <head> of your document.
here's a bit of reading you can do on defining site meta
Hope this helps!
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://test.groundguitar.com/wp- includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.10.2'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://test.groundguitar.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1'></script>
<style type="text/css">.recentcomments a{display:inline !important;padding:0 !important;margin:0 !important;}</style>
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:url" content="" />
<meta property="og:title" content="" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:description" content="" />
<meta property="og:image" content="" />
</head>
These are lines added by wp_head();. For some reason it adds og tags, and I can't figure out why.
I'm using the Yoast SEO plugin, but have previously used All In One SEO, and they both had og tags disabled, yet this still appeared in the header. Rest of the plugins I'm using are: Facebook Comments by Fat Panda, Contact Form 7 and Any Mobile Theme Switcher. Disabling any of them didn't remove the tags.
Could this be a leftover from a plugin used in the past, which didn't uninstall correctly, and how can I remove it, or at least find out what's causing it?
That definitely looks like something a plugin would add.
First thing I would do is check the header.php file of your theme just to make sure they are not hard coded in there, never hurts to eliminate the obvious first.
Next, do you have JetPack enabled? If so do you have it's Social Links module enabled? Those og tags might be generated from there.
Last but not least if they still are showing up you will need to turn of EVERY plugin and check, might be something that another, not so obvious plugin might be doing.
Good luck!
Yoast plugin provides Opengraph for Facebook and Twitter so that if someone shares your post/page, the desired image with custom title can forward to those social media. You can check https: //www.facebook.com/kumarsn11/posts/747660215383716 this link which redirects user to your website. Its always helpful. Read some basic info about opengraph, you will get basic idea what you are actually using. Read This https: //blog.kissmetrics.com/open-graph-meta-tags/
You can disable it by SEO-> Social-> Add Opengraph Metadata. Disable This.
but I will recommend you not to disable, but use it properly with more customization.
When you click this social icon, you can use custom title other than original or keep the same for Facebook and Twitter.