I have an problem with the thumbnail Facebook is showing, when I send an link to my web side to someone on Facebook.
Facebook is showing a thumbnail picture from a password protected folder.
Is there a way to change this, so I can choose which image Facebook Is using as thumbnail ?
I am currently using version 2.8.4
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Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
That is assumedly because the first folder Imagevue finds in your gallery, happens to be a passworded folder. You can manually edit the default Facebook share picture though ... Open the file iv-includes/templates/default/index.gallery.phtml, line 23:
... change to ...
Simply add an absolute path to the image on your web server. It does not have to be a thumbnail, in fact its better if its not because Facebook recommends minimum 200 px width/height.
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<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo pageURL().htmlspecialchars($this->firstImage->thumbnail); ?>?<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->firstImage->getThumbnailMTime()); ?>" />Code
<meta property="og:image" content="http://domain/path/file.jpg" />Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
It solved the problem, thanks for your help 
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margouillat
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Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
Give me a link, and I will give you a diagnose.margouillat wrote:did not work for me sniff....
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Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
ereything seem to be ok now
thanks
thanks
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EtienneOuellet
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Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
Tried to change the code for the first image... didn't work for me...
Help please
Help please
Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
After you changed the code and refreshed your page, go here add your gallery link and check the result:EtienneOuellet wrote:Tried to change the code for the first image... didn't work for me...
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Normally, you need to force Facebook to empty its cache also ...
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EtienneOuellet
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Re: Facebook link thumbnail image
I tried the Facebook debugger. It fetches the right link in the code but it says the image is to small and is going to use another thumb instead. The image is 1000px wide! How do I force Facebook to refresh its cache?
EDIT : Works now! Don't know how it refreshed... Well... Thanks!
EDIT : Works now! Don't know how it refreshed... Well... Thanks!