Default Image for Event

[persyst]

How can I have a Default image show up when when sharing on Facebook/Twitter, when the event I’m sharing does not have an image uploaded for it.

[Brian]

Hello, I can help you out with that.

The best way to do that is use a plugin like WordPress SEO and add a default Facebook sharing image in the Social Section of that Plugins Setting.

It also adds a Meta Box for each Event with a social section that you can add an image for sharing there too.

Let me know if you need anymore help.

Thanks

[persyst]

I installed WordPress SEO and set the default image to:
http://cypherspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/calendar2.png
but it says below the box “This image is used if the post/page being shared does not contain any images.”

When I try to share this particular event that does not have a “Featured Image”
http://cypherspot.com/event/funkmosphere/2014-08-28/

There are three image options and none of them are the default image I chose.

[Brian]

I tested the link by dropping it into Facebook and got this image:

It appears that your sharing buttons are not picking up the image. There is not much support I can do for another plugin here, but you do have a default image according to Facebook’s coding.

The creator of those sharing icons, might be a better resource to changing their default image.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks

[persyst]

You are correct that pasting cypherspot.com in Facebook works, but that is because I have that same Logo/Calendar image on the homepage.
However, if I paste this event link directly into Facebook:
http://cypherspot.com/event/funkmosphere/2014-08-28/
I do not get the option for my default (Logo/Calendar) image.

[Brian]

Sorry, I thought I had pasted in the event link not the image link. I could swear I did it and it worked.

So, I ran the Facebook Open Graph Object Debugger: (Asking it to “fetch new scrape information” on your link above)

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

And it is now picking up the image when I share the link.

Hopefully, that works for you now because this is a Facebook Open Graph Issue and we do not support that feature on our plugins. So there is not much I can do to help you on this from here. I have tried to give you suggestions on what might work and it looks like it is close so I think you can take it from here.

Thanks

 

[persyst]

Great, yes I see that it is working now. Thanks.

[Brian]

Great, glad it helps, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket, but if you need any other on something else please post a new ticket.

Thanks!

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