Hi,
When checking the Open Graph validation for the site, it seems to be missing the “og:type” field.
How can we add this?
Thanks
Peter
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Per the spec a missing type should be parsed as og:type=website, which is what we would end up using.
Any non-marked up webpage should be treated as
og:typewebsite.
But I guess it doesn’t hurt to be specific? pr-welcome
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Do you have some sort of roadmap, where we can see when this is planned?
I feel like this is a very minor thing, but something that would have a large impact for us.
Thanks
Peter
Can you explain exactly how it would have a large impact? If the value is missing, the default is correct, per above. Specifying the value of something that is already valid by default doesn’t seem like a good use of our engineering time.
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First of all, thank you for a very cool product, we really like it.
But I’m a bit unsure what you mean?
From what I can understand (and I may very well be wrong), the four required Open Graph tags for every page are og:title , og:type , og:image , and og:url .
But the og:type is missing, which is causing our Open Graph validation to fail. It just seems to be a very small thing to add. Adding this would, in our case, improve our ranking search wise and then drive more trafic to our community.
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I ended up adding the tag manually to the <head>: Settings > Customize > Select theme > Edit CSS/HTML > “</head> tab”
Seems to be validating now!
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Adding it increased the audit ranking of our forums on Ahrefs from 54% to 74%.
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Its exactly our ahrefs validation that fails. We can add it manually as suggested by @JoshuaH, but it just seems like such a small thing to fix, so it would be nice to have in the next release.
Thanks
Peter
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This should solve it
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f36ecf86f8bc2fe42fda5107663af9d0ae3924e8
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