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Yes I have this problem too. When I share a photo, the wrong thumbnail is displayed.
It displays the thumbnail from the About page instead of the photo (/#/blah/blah.jpg) being shared.

I don't believe this functions correctly. It also is quite frustrating to see it share to facebook and insert such "clunky" text etc.
e.g. When hovering over the URL, it has "/imagevue.php?share=Reception%2FElle_1097.jpg"

Whenever you share a photo, you have to instead change the share, replacing the /#/ to the /content/ folder name, so that it shows the correct photo. But then the link breaks! It just links to the photo directly and not the site!
Otherwise is shows the About page thumbnail

There must be a way to better improve this so when the #/path/photo.jpg is queried, Imagevue returns the correct Title, Description, #, Thumbnail, Image and Link.
i.e. the shared URL should not be "imagevue.php?share=...." but instead: "/#/Reception/Elle_1097.jpg" and the THUMBNAIL URL should be "/content/Reception/Elle_1097.jpg"

Has anyone solved this by making modifications to their installation?

Thank you

abertrande wrote:Hello
when I want to share my website I have a thumbnail which does not please me
Can I change it please ?

Check what sequence you use for your pages, and what images you have available in the /About/ or /About Us/ folder (text page).
This is where mine are coming from.

Try changing the photo(s) you have in the About page's folder.

When you share your main website home page, Imagevue adds the first image it finds. You can edit it in iv-includes/templates/default/index.gallery.phtml, line 25: Simply manually change the reference to the image you wish to target, for example:

Wow, quick reply mate!

What about images from a gallery being shared?

Is there a way for it to be displayed instead of the /About/ photo?

e.g. I share Photo123 within Gallery Holidays.
The photo is a picture at the beach (example - I wish!)

When this is shared, I find that this image does not display on the remote site. Instead the photo from the About page (sequence of the menu: /start/, /about/, galleries....., /contact/).

So where can I tell it to ignore the default image from the about page, and instead grab the actual content being shared?


UPDATE: Actually this is strange. The world places album works. Hmmm. Just not anything else... 1000px by 667px - Approx 100KB - 180KB.
That is the first time it has ever worked. But still, it does not work on any other photo gallery...

I am sure you are aware of this, but why does it not bring across the photograph"name/title" or description
Just the "image", the "real image name" and the "URL"... Is that all that can be communicated to foreign sites, like Facebook etc?


UPDATE: Okay I've found a pattern! If the photo has NOT been given a custom title or description, then it will not display the photo!
However if a custom Title/Description has been provided, then it WILL post the image, but still NOT the title/description...

Weird!

SCREENSHOTS:

NOT WORKING - Media without Title + Description





WORKING - Media with Title + Description




I'm lost.

Bulletproof IT wrote:Wow, quick reply mate!

What about images from a gallery being shared?

Bit hard to read through everything without links, just screenshots. Facebook acts in its own ways ... Imagevue cannot assign photos to pages that dont have photos (text pages), or if it does, it will use a photo that is in the folder at least, we can't get too much more complicated than that ... You are after all sharing THAT page.

abertrande wrote:but it does not work

It does work, but Facebook caches old results ... You can check through the Facebook debugger if in doubt. Remember, Facebook looks up the page data, it does not use the data we send to it.