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?

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…

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 som…

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…

@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 yourse…

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 wo…

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 ahe…

I agree regarding that. Just go to Facebook.com and paste a link to a Discourse post with no images. Is it blank?

My apologies. Just tried it and Facebook seems to have changed its behavior, now it pulls the image correctly when sharing this page. If I want a large image, though, I would have to somehow set the meta og:image Anyway… thanks for your attention!

Définir l'image utilisée pour le partage sur les réseaux sociaux ?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) Janvier 30, 2019, 7:02 9

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:

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Change default sharing image Support	10	1377	Décembre 23, 2019
Reddit Style picture thumbnail on the left Feature	58	21274	Décembre 4, 2025
Custom OG/Twitter Metadata Image per Category Feature	40	3239	Janvier 12, 2019
Ignore favicon, use default open graph image to create og:image tags Feature	19	5263	Octobre 3, 2018
Facebook og:image not scraped when users share a topic Support	14	1015	Août 16, 2021

Définir l'image utilisée pour le partage sur les réseaux sociaux ?

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