Hi,

I am using K2 Version 2.6.8.

The other Opengraph tags are rendered fine (url, title, description & type) but there is no og:image tag, even though the K2 item has an image set.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Mark

Hello Mark,

Have you specified which image size you want to use?
This setting is located in K2's params.

Yes. Tried changing the size as well. No joy.

Is there a link I can see?

For some reason it only seems to affect the site on my localhost. The live site works OK... strange.

Another related question: If there is no image in the article, how can I set a default og:image src?

Facebook won't work on localhost.
Yes you can perform an if/else check in your template and if an image is not present you can use the setMetadata function docs.joomla.org/JDocument/setMetaData .

But what am I testing for? I can't run an if/else on the existence of an og:image tag, because wouldn't the template be loaded BEFORE K2? so there will never be an og:image tag at the time the if/else is executed.

I need to find the K2 file that sets the og:image tag so I can amend it. Have you any idea which file it is? I have searched through the file contents of the K2 folder to find "og:image" but no luck.

You do not need to hack K2 core files.
You will lose all your changes when you update.

This has to be done via template overrides.
You need to check if the image is both set and present.

This post will help you on template overrides.
getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates

Yes. I know about template overrides. But I do not know which file to override, hence my question.

It's the item.php file.