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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #60163 by Bakt El Raalis
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Hi everyone !

I got a little (big) problem since I updated K2 yesterday. The Facebook thumbs generation is not working anymore for my articles (item.php I think) :

www.pelecanus.net/

My version of K2 is v2.5.3, I check a lot of past messages about this kind of problem but I didn't find anything about a possible problem only with the item.php page in K2 or a kind of fix.

I tried to share my website's homepage and that's ok Facebook found some images, even some old pages are working but not the new one.

It's a very very big problem for this amazing component...

Thanks in advance for your help !

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12 years 9 months ago #60164 by Bakt El Raalis
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Ok I think I found the solution.

K2 is forcing some new meta infos in the head, there is a

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12 years 9 months ago #60165 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal
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Hi Bakt El Raalis,

You get this
					
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12 years 9 months ago #60166 by Bakt El Raalis
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Hey Kannan,

thanks for your answer but I definitely don't want this meta tag on my articles. I want to have a choice between multiple images (for example when I got an image gallery) to propose different images.

Plus even if I use the K2 image function Facebook don't seems to recognize any images on the article...

From my point of view the easiest solution is to don't have any meta tags or OG tags in order that Facebook can scan all the images in the article (like before the update) :)

It's frustrating, I just don't find the place where I can delete this meta tag....

Thanks !

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12 years 9 months ago #60167 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal
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Hi Bakt El Raalis,

The meta works on mysites, and FB does pick the right image :D

i do not recommend removing the meta tags, but if you want to do it, it's in the

components -> com_k2 -> views -> item -> view.html.php

Remove this - around line 339.
					
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12 years 9 months ago #60168 by Bakt El Raalis
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Yeah Kannan !

I just do that on my side and it's perfect.

Now Facebook is free to grab any images as a thumb image.

Thanks !! :)

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12 years 9 months ago #60169 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal
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You're welcome ;)

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