Solved Newbie to Ogplus for Joomla

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DavetheCat
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5 years 2 months ago - 5 years 2 months ago #293 by DavetheCat

Newbie to Ogplus for Joomla was created by DavetheCat

Hello,
I am a newbie to Ogplus for Joomla. Just needing some advice to getting started please! I have looked through the documentation, but I can't work out which fields I need to fill in to get Facebook to do what I want it to do, which is include an image from our page when sharing articles from the website.

I have installed and enabled Ogplus for Joomla, but so far I haven't changed or filled in any of the options, I just thought I would see if it did what I needed 'out of the box' but it didn't, so I must have to fill in some of the boxes, but I don't know which ones.

After enabling the plugin, I then went to Facebook's debug page (developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) and got it to 'Scrape again" for the page I'm using to test this. It did that, and an image appeared OK in the 'Link Preview' section, so far so good. However when I 'share' that page from my site to FB, the image still doesn't show. This is the reason I needed Ogplus, so I do need to find out how to get FB to show an image from page when the page is shared.

On the Facebook debug page there are 3 warnings at the top, as follows:

Warnings That Should Be Fixed

Inferred PropertyThe 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Missing PropertiesThe following required properties are missing: fb:app_id
Tag specified as 'name' instead of 'property'The following meta tags are specified using 'name' instead of 'property' and will be ignored unless specified using the 'property' key: og:title, og:type, og:image, og:url, og:site_name, og:description

So, I am assuming I now need to fill in some of the boxes in the Plugin - but which ones?
Thanks for any help!

Last edit: 5 years 2 months ago by DavetheCat. Reason: edited for layout only!

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