Hi. It seems that Facebook did some changes and now it uses the open graph meta tag (<meta name="og:image" content="XXX" />) instead of the image tag. The best way to do this is find a plugin since Facebook requires also other open graph tags.

I have a plugin that handles the opengraph however it doesn't work very well for the image. The og image tag will only be detected properly if I insert the image into full text of the article thru the editor. It doesn't work if I just use the intro image given to K2.

This creates a redundant step and also causes problem if using simple image gallery pro plugin because it will just return transparent.gif as placeholder for the gallery. I think the reason why facebook returns with a blank thumbnail at times is also because its trying to download the _L large image size which then timeout in the process, I'm not sure.

I think the simpler way atm would be perhaps to modify K2 source so that instead of saying

$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$facebookImage = 'image'.$this->params->get('facebookImage','Small');
if($this->item->$facebookImage){
$document->setMetaData('og:image',substr(JURI::root(),0,-1).str_replace(JURI::root(true),'',$this->item->$facebookImage));
}

Log in  or Create an account to join the conversation.



	
		

			 		
													

Log in  or Create an account to join the conversation.



	
		

			 		
													

					

					K2 Rocks \m/