How would I go about adding more info like a post title to the share link? For example: instead of clicking share and having the text box having: “https://discourse.example.com/xxxxxx” have: “Title of post: AI generated summary or first line of post https://xxxxx” and having all this information also carry over to the other share buttons.

yeah, something like that, it’s just that I want to have it shared from Discourse(mobile) to WeChat, and WeChat doesn’t load a preview so I am trying to do a facimile of it at the step of clicking the share button on Discourse

So WeChat’s the issue, this stuff is exposed, but it’s on the client to use the data. Here’s the result on Discord: [A message in a Slack thread discusses a new flight model update for X4 Foundations, developed in collaboration with former Star Citizen programmer John Pritet, scheduled for official release in early 2025. (Captioned by AI)]

yeah, but there’s nothing I can do to wechat unless I get a job at Tencent, that’s why I am trying to do it on this side

Check your Topic is public. I’m surprised WeChat doesn’t consume and use og tags. og tags have been a standard for many years, introduced by Facebook for link previews. Otherwise there is nothing you can do.

Here’s proof this is working. Try your link on the Meta debugger at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug: [The image shows a Meta debugging tool with a warning message about missing properties, a timestamp of the last scrape, and a preview of a webpage about the future of X4. (Captioned by AI)]

is there no way to edit the text field on load? It seems like some theme components can do it like the url shortener.

WeChat is likely willfully not doing this

I’m not sure you understand the architecture. The data is exposed to the world. There is nothing to add. Just make sure your Topic is not in a private Category and your site is not login only.

I just want people to be able to see: TITLE SUMMARY LINK when I send a wechat message through the share button, because just having a bare hyperlink is very unappealing and has no preview for context I understand it is exposed to the world

I suggest raising it with the WeChat community. Perhaps being a Chinese service with greater government scrutiny they are picky about which sites get to look good? I also recommend testing your link on Facebook debugger (link provided above) and some more open Western platforms, to check it works.

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Development

merefield (Robert) December 13, 2024, 9:42pm 20

That’s a reasonable goal.

ok so I’m moving this over to Development

You might be able to achieve that with a Theme Component (if you are lucky )

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