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Facebook Share returning Blank Thumbnail

Lefteris
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12 years 2 weeks ago #100974 by Lefteris

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@Lul Blaka

Have you read the documentation? Take a read at getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/item/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates

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12 years 1 week ago #100975 by George Savvoglou

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A think this code works!!!

But the tumbnail at facebook is very small!! can i change this for a little bit bigger image?? :)

Kannan Naidu wrote: I'm using this for now and works like a charm too :D. Thanks Lefteris Kavadas for the facebook image code.
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12 years 1 week ago #100976 by Lefteris

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@George Savvoglou

If you have hardcoded the image then it depends on the image. Otherwise go to K2 paramters and select the desired width for the Facebook image.

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12 years 4 days ago #100977 by nodun

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I have similar issue but describen steps are not working for me.

Somewhere in code my domain is doubling for og:image and generate code in single articles like:

<meta property="og:image" content="xtri.pl/http://xtri.pl/cache/multithumb_thumbs/b_500_450_16777215_00___images_Lunarglide4_DSC_0099.JPG">

you can check it on:

xtri.pl/sprzet/testy/item/243-test-nike-lunarglide4

Do you guys have any idea how to repair this issue?

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12 years 4 days ago #100978 by Lefteris

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@nodun

We have added the og:image tag to K2 2.6 Beta version. So if you are using an earlier version the tag is not coming from K2. You need to search your templates and plugins for code that is generating.

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11 years 11 months ago #100979 by Lul Blaka

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i have readed the documents,,, and then overided the files, as the manual said

pls help me, where should i put the code, in which part of item,php,,, and which code exactely (because here I c many codes)

please someone help me share my k2 items on fb

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11 years 11 months ago - 11 years 11 months ago #100980 by Goh Yew Hoe

Replied by Goh Yew Hoe on topic Re: Facebook Share returning Blank Thumbnail

Hmm.. depending on your template the file could be in a different folder, but it should be something like com_k2\template_name\item.php You can put the code near the top of the file, say after line 17.

Anyway, for anyone still looking to use this code, I have modified it to be as dynamic as possible so the field values are pulled from joomla instead of a static value. Note: Make sure you check the 2nd logo path though, it's picking logo.jpg from the root image folder but you can change it yourself to read from any folder or file.

<?php
        $fbog =& JFactory::getDocument();
                $app = JFactory::getApplication();
                $facebookImage = 'image1'.$this->item->params->get('facebookImage','Small');
        $opengraph_meta = '
        <meta property="og:title" content="'.$this->item->title.'"/>
        <meta property="og:type" content="article"/>
        <meta property="og:url" content="'.substr(JURI::root(),0,-1).str_replace(JURI::root(true),'',$this->item->link).'"/>
        <meta property="og:site_name" content="'.$app->getCfg( 'sitename' ).'"/>
        ';
        if (!empty($this->item->$facebookImage)) {
            $opengraph_meta .= '<meta property="og:image" content="'.substr(JURI::root(),0,-1).str_replace(JURI::root(true),'',$this->item->$facebookImage).'" />';
        }
        else {
            $opengraph_meta .= '<meta property="og:image" content="'.substr(JURI::root(),0,-1).'/images/logo.jpg"/>';
        }
        $fbog->addCustomTag( $opengraph_meta );

?>

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Kannan Naidu Venugopal
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11 years 11 months ago #100981 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal

Replied by Kannan Naidu Venugopal on topic Re: Facebook Share returning Blank Thumbnail

The path should be /templates/YOURJOOMLATEMPLATE/html/com_k2/

It's better to upgrade to K2 2.6.x (latest version) as it already comes with OGP meta tags.

K2 Rocks \m/

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11 years 11 months ago #100982 by Goh Yew Hoe

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I just updated to 2.6.1 to test the OG support and it seems the og tags are defined wrongly.

For example, it's defined as this at the moment.

<meta name="og:type" content="Article" />

That's wrong, it should be

<meta property="og:type" content="Article" />

So technically speaking, the og tags in K2 at the moment aren't working. Now to figure how to disable those faulty tags in K2...