collective.fbshare
Provide some additional Open Graph meta tag to your Plone site, so share items on Facebook will be simpler
Project Description
Table of contents
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
- enable support for content images, this mean that content types with image field will be able to provide that image instead of a global ones. Also supported collective.contentleadimage
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.
Other similar product
There's another Plone package: that will give you Open Graph support: collective.opengraph
We are planning to make collective.fbshare based on it.
Credits
Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.
Self-Certification
[X] Internationalized
[X] Unit tests
[X] End-user documentation
[ ] Internal documentation (documentation, interfaces, etc.)
[X] Existed and maintained for at least 6 months
[X] Installs and uninstalls cleanly
[ ] Code structure follows best practice
Current Release
collective.fbshare 0.2.0
Released Nov 26, 2012 — tested with Plone 4.2, Plone 4.1, Plone 4, Plone 3
Better image support and bugfixes
More about this release…
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Get
collective.fbshare
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all platforms
- collective.fbshare-0.2.0.zip
- If you are using Plone 3.2 or higher, you probably want to install this product with buildout. See our tutorial on installing add-on products with buildout for more information.
All Releases
| Version | Released | Description | Compatibility | Licenses | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.0 | Nov 26, 2012 | Better image support and bugfixes More about this release… |
Plone 4.2
Plone 4.1
Plone 4
Plone 3
|
GPL | final |
| 0.1.0 | First public release More about this release… |
Plone 4.2
Plone 4.1
Plone 4
Plone 3
|
GPL | beta |