Solved Social icon (Nodebb)

[JAC]

Hi Mark,

This title may not be relevant so feel free to change it.

I’m looking to add an image so when I post to social profiles etc it displays an image instead of the NodeBB logo.

How do I achieve this?

Many thanks

[phenomlab]

@jac Good question. I raised something similar on the NodeBB community

May 11, 2021  /  Technical Support

Default image when sharing topics/posts

Hi. I checked in the ACP, and there does not appear to be a setting for a placeholder image to be used when sharing a post or topic on social media. On Twitter (for example), the link is shared, but there is no default image. Did I miss something here ? T...

but, I never got a response - however, there is an OG image (Open Graph) which you can apply at

/admin/settings/general

Which (I think) should give you a default image (which you of course specify by uploading) for sharing on social media.

EDIT - on checking, this does indeed work. Once the image is applied, the Open Graph tags are present in each post - see below

<meta property="og:title" content="Social icon (Nodebb)" />
<meta property="og:description" content="@jac Good question. I raised something similar on the NodeBB community   	  	 		 			  				 					                                                          May 11  /  Technical Support                                                                         ..." />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2021-12-04T16:58:18.479Z" />
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2021-12-04T17:28:05.608Z" />
<meta property="article:section" content="Customisation" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/profile/1-profileavatar-1629822570834.png" />
<meta property="og:image:url" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/profile/1-profileavatar-1629822570834.png" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/system/og-image.png" />
<meta property="og:image:url" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/system/og-image.png" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1900" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="950" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://sudonix.com/topic/162/social-icon-nodebb/2" />

[JAC]

@phenomlab said in Social icon (Nodebb):

@jac Good question. I raised something similar on the NodeBB community

May 11, 2021  /  Technical Support

Default image when sharing topics/posts

Hi. I checked in the ACP, and there does not appear to be a setting for a placeholder image to be used when sharing a post or topic on social media. On Twitter (for example), the link is shared, but there is no default image. Did I miss something here ? T...

but, I never got a response - however, there is an OG image (Open Graph) which you can apply at

/admin/settings/general

Which (I think) should give you a default image (which you of course specify by uploading) for sharing on social media.

EDIT - on checking, this does indeed work. Once the image is applied, the Open Graph tags are present in each post - see below

<meta property="og:title" content="Social icon (Nodebb)" />
<meta property="og:description" content="@jac Good question. I raised something similar on the NodeBB community   	  	 		 			  				 					                                                          May 11  /  Technical Support                                                                         ..." />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2021-12-04T16:58:18.479Z" />
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2021-12-04T17:28:05.608Z" />
<meta property="article:section" content="Customisation" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/profile/1-profileavatar-1629822570834.png" />
<meta property="og:image:url" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/profile/1-profileavatar-1629822570834.png" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/system/og-image.png" />
<meta property="og:image:url" content="https://sudonix.com/assets/uploads/system/og-image.png" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1900" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="950" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://sudonix.com/topic/162/social-icon-nodebb/2" />

Thanks very much mate, I’ll try this tomorrow.

[phenomlab]

@jac In addition, see this

May 11, 2021  /  Technical Support

Default image when sharing topics/posts

@anodetobb have you tried setting a topic thumbnail?

[JAC]

@phenomlab said in Social icon (Nodebb):

@jac In addition, see this

May 11, 2021  /  Technical Support

Default image when sharing topics/posts

@anodetobb have you tried setting a topic thumbnail?

That’s a good shout mate

[phenomlab]

@jac I just tested my theory around using the OG image, and according to the Twitter card validator, it works fine

[JAC]

@phenomlab said in Social icon (Nodebb):

@jac I just tested my theory around using the OG image, and according to the Twitter card validator, it works fine

fixed