I want to be able to have a different image when people share a topic on social networks. How do I set it per page? Is there a plugin for this?

Doesn’t seem that way. For example: Wall St. Conference at Mar-a-Lago - #2 by Norman - News and Media - Intercoin and https://twitter.com/IntercoinOrg/status/1090483807067750401

Let’s see [image] Wall St. Conference at Mar-a-Lago Jan 14-21 the cofounders of Intercoin were in Florida, at a conference put on by Jason Lyons. The year before, we had met some our main investors there, and were invited back for this year’s event, held in Mar-a-Lago. Needless to say, it was quite... https://forum.intercoin.org/t/wall-st-conference-at-mar-a-lago/391 Looks correct to me. Note that the tweet links to the SECOND post in the topic. https://forum.intercoin.org/t/wall-st-conference-at-mar-a-lago/391/2

Oh, perhaps because we customized the in the theme, to include some “meta” properties. But if we didn’t do that, then posts without an image would not get any when shared. What would be ideal is to have the option to set a default image for all forum pages (or even individual categories!) in some other tab of theme than “Customize CSS” and then override that meta if a topic has an image.

See above answer. The link is wrong.

Wait, let me see one more time. I think what happened was… I edited the theme and commented out the tags when you posted the link. I hope it’s not cached now by this site: [image] Wall St. Conference at Mar-a-Lago Jan 14-21 the cofounders of Intercoin were in Florida, at a conference put on by Jason Lyons. The year before, we had met some our main investors there, and were invited back for this year’s event, held in Mar-a-Lago. Needless to say, it was quite...

@codinghorror yes, my above comment stands We had to put meta tags in the theme header so topics without images would have a nice preview. But then every topic has this same image. How do we achieve both with the current software? I will leave the tags in the theme, so you can reproduce it yourself (post the same link again).

Here’s what it should look like. The site logo will be used for the topic, but the author will be used if you deep link to a post in a topic, like so: Topic [image] Toward a Better Markdown Tutorial blog It's always surprised me when people, especially technical people, say they don't know Markdown. Do you not use GitHub? Stack Overflow? Reddit? This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at... Reading time: 10 mins 🕑 Likes: 16 ❤ Post [image] Toward a Better Markdown Tutorial blog What we really need is a great Markdown tutorial and reference page, I think you have misidentified the problem. Even if there was a “great place”, no one is likely to go there - assuming you aren’t paying them or otherwise rewarding them for...

Yes, that’s good in Discourse but I’m talking about posting links to Discourse topics in Facebook, Twitter and so on. They don’t do what Discourse does, they show a blank image unless you put those tags. Try it. But once we put those meta tags, now they override everything. I’m just saying, it would be a great idea for forums to have a field for a default image that is used when posting, but overridden when the topic has a better image. (And if you really want to get fancy, then topics can have one.) The meta tags I’m talking about are og:image and twitter:card

This isn’t really correct. For the topic case https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator shows [image] For the post case https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator shows [image] I tend to agree that we should normalize behavior here, in the first case.. when no image exists in the first post, go ahead and use the site logo cc @techAPJ But note that the link on your twitter refers to a post that does not exist: https://forum.intercoin.org/t/wall-st-conference-at-mar-a-lago/391/2 There is no post #2 in that topic..

Set the image used for social network sharing?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 30, 2019, 6:17am 2

Sharing uses the first image in the first post of the topic you linked to.

If you link to a post, sharing uses the first image of the first post you linked to.

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Set the image used for social network sharing?

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