# Share badges on social media
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998 "2016-10-25T10:10:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@foloex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foloex)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/1 "2016-10-25T10:10:20Z")
Hello world,
I’m trying to enhance my community activeness. In order to do so, I’d like my members to be able to brag about obtaining a badge on social media. It would reinforce the gamification aspect of the forum and lead the community into wanting to obtain badges, thus increasing the overall activity.
Is there a way to share a badge on social media (mainly facebook and twitter) ? If not, what kind of development would it take to do so ? I’m willing to make a plugin if it’s what it takes.
Best regards,
Rémi
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/2 "2016-10-25T13:43:51Z")
I think that adding the necessary `og` tags on the [badges page](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/39/empathetic?username=falco) is welcome as a PR to the core.
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### Author:  [@foloex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foloex)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/3 "2016-10-25T14:02:58Z")
Yeah, that too, it would be nice to have the icon and description in the metadata. So if I understand you correctly, metadata description should be handled in the core of the forum and the share button should be a plugin, right ?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/4 "2016-10-25T14:05:47Z")
> [@foloex](#):
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> metadata description should be handled in the core of the forum
Yes!
> [@foloex](#):
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> the share button should be a plugin
I’m not sure yet.
Do the metadata first, and wait for @codinghorror call on the share button ok?
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### Author:  [@foloex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foloex)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/5 "2016-10-25T14:09:40Z")
I’ll try to see what I can do, I never dived into the core of discourse and I’m not really familiar with ruby. But that sounds like a fun challenge 😉
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### Author:  [@7ev3n](https://meta.discourse.org/u/7ev3n)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/6 "2017-03-17T08:33:25Z")
I believe metadata description to the [badges](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/1/basic?username=7ev3n) page can be added by making a new view badges/show.html.erb which has crawlable\_meta\_data as content\_for head.
I also changed the show method in badges\_controller to render to :show , instead of default/empty .
Am unable to see the changes (og tags) in the local instance of discourse set up using vagrant. I am new to the community and would appreciate help with this!
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/7 "2017-03-17T09:06:14Z")
Hi 7ev3n welcome to the forum
Did you see this?
> [@Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2017/57173/7):
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> It’s explained in the Ideas List as well as the [Application Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/wiki/GSoC-Application-Guide). Read our [Contribution Guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-development-contribution-guidelines/3823). Find some #pr-welcome and/or #starter-task::tag topics that you’d feel comfortable diving into.
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### Author:  [@7ev3n](https://meta.discourse.org/u/7ev3n)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/8 "2017-03-17T09:51:18Z")
Thank you 🙂
Yes. I have gone through the resources provided there, and have a basic idea about the code structure of Discourse.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/9 "2017-03-20T15:45:57Z")
> [@7ev3n](#):
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> I believe metadata description to the badges page can be added by making a new view badges/show.html.erb which has crawlable\_meta\_data as content\_for head.
That sounds correct.
> [@7ev3n](#):
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> Am unable to see the changes (og tags) in the local instance of discourse set up using vagrant.
That is odd. I can see the og (Open Graph) tags just fine on my local dev instance if I create `badges/show.html.erb` file and removing `render "badges/show"` in controller.
Perhaps try again, and see `index` method in `CategoriesController` for reference implementation?
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### Author:  [@7ev3n](https://meta.discourse.org/u/7ev3n)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/10 "2017-03-21T14:34:25Z")
Am able to see the change now. Instead of render :show, I left it as render only.
I have submitted a [PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4773) for the same. Should the share button be added as a plugin, or in the core?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/11 "2017-03-21T20:52:25Z")
> [@7ev3n](#):
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> Should the share button be added as a plugin, or in the core?
Might as well start it off as a plugin; will be a worthwhile exercise 😉
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/12 "2017-04-06T04:08:48Z")
This feature is now available via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/402eaaa7733405f926d04f23704b1a69e8088890](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/402eaaa7733405f926d04f23704b1a69e8088890)
Thanks @7ev3n.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-badges-on-social-media/51998/13 "2017-09-11T08:34:17Z")