My question is about posting links to other websites.

Helen Lubar Posted in Technical Support 5 years ago

When I post a link to my site on other social media sites like Facebook no picture is displayed.
I do have a favicon icon showing in the address bare but that's a different matter. So, here is my question, where do I place a picture/logo for it to be picked up with my link on other websites. This is not to be confused with Link Preview.
thanks.

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us Helen Lubar Replied 5 years ago

Thank you Bansh33, much appreciated.

us Rishi B Replied 5 years ago

this should tell you everything you need: http://ogp.me/#metadata

us Rishi B Replied 5 years ago

wait, sorry, I think I misunderstood your question.

to do what you want, you'll need to add what are called meta OpenGraph tags for it to be picked up by facebook's link preview thing. you can google how to do add these.

us Rishi B Replied 5 years ago

I posted some code about how to do this a while ago. Here's the thread: https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/discussion/view/2937/embed-external-picture-to-wall-post