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You need to add Open Graph meta tags to your <head>. See og:image below… <meta property=”og:title” content=”35% of LinkedIn Users Check The Site Daily” /> <meta property=”og:type” content=”article” /> <meta property=”og:url” content=”http://therealtimereport.com/2011/08/05/35-of-linkedin-users-check-the-site-daily/” /> <meta property=”og:image” content=”http://therealtimereport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LinkedIn-Users-Are-Highly-Engaged.png” /> <meta property=”og:site_name” content=”The Realtime Report” /> <meta property=”og:description” content=”Now the No.2 ranked social networking site – as of … Read more

Conditionally add apt. Open Graph meta data to different pages on WordPress site

The fb-open-graph.php (latest version’s file) right inside the extracted folder of the plugin is (solely) responsible for adding Open Graph meta data to the header of your site. Below is how I’ve modified the code in the file so that it’s fit to be added to your theme’s functions.php: /* Facebook Open Graph Markup In … Read more

Hiding styles from Facebook

You can use Open Graph Protocol to define the data Facebook fetches from your site: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraphprotocol/ The metatag for the description has this form: <meta property=”og:description” content=”my custom description for single post” /> You can use plugins, like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/ to do it for you. You can then debug your page here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to see how … Read more

Facebook plugin shows existing comments

I don’t use this plugin, but it looks like this comment template is loaded with add_filter( ‘comments_template’, array( ‘Facebook_Comments’, ‘comments_template’ ) ); The simplified structure of this comment template looks like: if ( have_comments() ) : // … wp_list_comments( $_comment_options ); // … endif; $_facebook_comments = Facebook_Comments::comments_box(); if ( $_facebook_comments ) { do_action( ‘facebook_comment_form_before’ ); … Read more

Facebook link to website logo

I’d recommend checking out the following plugins: Yoast SEO Open Graph Protocol Framework Either one will take care of all of the Open Graph metadata. Once you have the plugin set up, you can simply go to your homepage and you will see a “Featured Image” widget: Pick your logo and you will see the … Read more