HD-Open Graph
Version
3 (last update on Dec 7, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
7
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
28 August 2011
Google may dominate the search engine scene and attract more traffic than any other site but Facebook comes a close second. The Open Graph Protocol is an attempt to link Facebook with the rest of the web, creating Facebook’s own extensive and highly interactive version of a search engine.
This plugin ensures that the correct data is displayed when someone tries to share a link to your site on Facebook. The graph "type" ensures that your site is categorized in the correct section (eg. website, blog, product, food, sport, news) and it also includes metadata to mark up your location and contact details.
Latest version now supports the Article Manager's "intro image" facility. If the page is article based and an "intro image" is found, this will be displayed as the Facebook thumbnail image. If no "intro image" is found, the default selected image is used instead.
Testing out of the box and the plugin installed was enabled and immediately started generating og tags. Unfortunately it does not create the correct "meta property" tags, instead creating "meta name" tags. Not the best experience for an out-of-the-box test. Needs some changes to replace the appropriate text on a page after render.
Owner's reply
This is incorrect. The plugin creates "meta property og" tags, as per the Open Graph specifications.
This is THE extension! I spent hours trying other extensions but they were messing with the title and other meta tags as they wanted. This extension is simple and does the job right!
It also indicates the Facebook URL Linter link which a very good thing to have when dealing with OG tags, something other extensions don't mind telling you. The Facebook Linter not only lets you debug but refreshes the info of your page.
Thanks for a great extension!
It also indicates the Facebook URL Linter link which a very good thing to have when dealing with OG tags, something other extensions don't mind telling you. The Facebook Linter not only lets you debug but refreshes the info of your page.
Thanks for a great extension!
I recently installed the extension on my private website to replace another similar extension.
Installation and configuration went without any problems. The plugin is intelligent enough to pull OG:description and similar from article's metadata and also the og:url is correctly the actual URL of the respective article. Opposed to the extension it replaced, this extension does NOT need to be configured for each and every article separately. Everything goes fully automatic and intelligent, which saves the webmaster a whole lot of time.
The only thing I would do different is as follows:
Some tags are arranged in groups in the configuration, e.g. the localizing tags. One can only enable or disable the whole group and if one then fills e.g. only the og:country field, all other localizing OG tags are still in the header of the site but empty.
I would use an intelligent solution without those group toggles but simply if a field is filled than it appears in the header and if it isn't filled, it doesn't appear in the header.
But this is a minor beauty-flaw. Nothing functional.
Installation and configuration went without any problems. The plugin is intelligent enough to pull OG:description and similar from article's metadata and also the og:url is correctly the actual URL of the respective article. Opposed to the extension it replaced, this extension does NOT need to be configured for each and every article separately. Everything goes fully automatic and intelligent, which saves the webmaster a whole lot of time.
The only thing I would do different is as follows:
Some tags are arranged in groups in the configuration, e.g. the localizing tags. One can only enable or disable the whole group and if one then fills e.g. only the og:country field, all other localizing OG tags are still in the header of the site but empty.
I would use an intelligent solution without those group toggles but simply if a field is filled than it appears in the header and if it isn't filled, it doesn't appear in the header.
But this is a minor beauty-flaw. Nothing functional.
