Hello guys! I'd really appreciate your help with the following.

I have a big news website (fup.org.br) that uses K2 as its article system. Uploaded to latest version in the last days.

Initially, I was having problems with twitter cards, that's why I updated the K2 version. With the update, problem solved! But after that, my client started saying that the links shared in Whatsapp were not displaying the picture in rich link anymore. That's where my odissey started.

I tried changed all the image sizes in K2 configuration, tried changing width of the sizes, tried using other meta tags plugins... everything that I could, with no results.

After a lot of research, I found and edited the view.html.php file, including the tags as the picture shows:




After all this, I have two questions:

1 - I still have problems in iOS. Even checking some articles in tools such as metatags.io and facebook debugger (showing the meta information correctly), all social networks work well, except for Whatsapp in iOS, that shows a loading circle when I paste the link, but after that the loading image goes away, and only title and description stay in the rich link.

2 - After some research, I checked another additional properties that can make part of the meta tags, such as og:image:url, og:image:secure_url, og:image:width, and og:image:height. I included them via code in view.html.php (Capturar2.JPG), but in the front-end, they appear listed as <"meta name:"xxxxx"> and not <meta property:"xxxxx"> (Capturar.JPG). Do this make any difference? And how could I change this "name" to "property", since they are written just the same way in the php code?

If you guys could help me with these questions, I'd be very grateful!

Hello @Fotis!

A) In answer to this question, I have other two websites that use K2 as well, and the meta tags work: sindipetro-rs.org.br and sindipetroprsc.org.br . Bothe are joomla + K2, but with older versions of both.

B) In this case, so, do you recommend me to replace my edited view.html.php by the original one and check if it works?

Ps: Another point: I'm using this website fup.org.br with a Pro Plan at Cloudflare. Do this have any effect on the problem?

I'm almost rolling K2 back to the older version, since my client is pressuring me a lot about this problem...

Thank you very much Fotis!

Hi @Fotis!

Just to let you know... tried changing for the original "view.html.php", but none solved the problem, so I rolled back to version 2.9.0, and it finally worked!

Don't know if there's a bug, or whatever, but as soon as I rolled back, the links worked even in iOS, android and whatsapp web.

Thank you very much for your attention!!

Hello Fotis!

Thank you for your response!

In fact, I didn't have any other problems while keeping version 2.9.0, so I left it , and in the future I turn to update it again.

Anyway, I'd like to thank you @Fotis for your attention and kindness in order to help!