collective.fbshare 0.1.0

Provide some additional Open Graph meta tag to your Plone site, so share items on Facebook will be simpler

Table of contents

• Introduction

• Product detail

  • Plone site metas

• About images

• Dependencies

• Credits

• Authors

• Changelog

Introduction

Are you commonly sharing contents from your Plone site or a site page to a Facebook account?

When you use the nice Facebook sharing interface, you have a simple way to customize additional data for the item that will be published (mainly: choose a proper image from the remote page).

However when trying to do this automatically (e.g: you are publishing the link in a Twitter account that also feed a Facebook page) Facebook is choosing an image for you… and often this is not the image you want.

How can you solve this? In general you can provide some additional meta tag information using Open Graph standard, customizing many aspect of the way of sharing contents on Facebook.

Product detail

Installing collective.fbshare product and add some additional meta tags in the head section of your site.

Plone site metas

When sharing the site root, you’ll get:

og:type

Always website

og:url

The URL to the site

og:image

See next section

og:title

The name of the site

og:description

The description of the site

When sharing site content’s you’ll get:

og:type

Always article

og:url

The URL to the content

og:site_name

The name of the Plone site

og:image

See next section

og:title

The title of the content

og:description

The description of the content

article:published_time

The publication date of the content (when present)

article:expiration_time

The expiration date of the content (when present)

article:author

A link to the creator’s page. This will be used only when you choose to display the about info of site user’s

article:tag

List of content tags

About images

In the site control panel you can access a new configuration panel named “Open Graph sharing settings”. From there you can:

• provide a custom image content to be used as og:image

• choose to use the site’s logo as og:image

Note

Future release will probably handle images taken from the content. Right now we are always providing the global defined image.

Dependencies

Tested on:

• Plone 4.2

• Plone 3.3

On Plone 3.3 you need to configure properly plone.app.registry dependencies and upgrade the default version used of plone.z3cform.

Credits

Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

0.1.0 (2012-07-25)

• Initial release