You can use media_sideload_image() which will take a link to a file and upload it to the media library. You do need to pass it some kind of $post_id @Sumit points out in the comments you could pass NULL into the $post_id field. media_sideload_image( $file_url, $post_id, $image_desc, $return ); If you need the uploaded image … Read more
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
I use the WP-Members plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/ ). It allows you to block/not block by default, and block/unblock individual pages. Works well for me. There are similar plugins available.
This one is brand new: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-media-tracking/ and it sounds like it does what you want. But be watching Joost de Valk’s GA plugin. He mentioned just a few days ago in this thread that he’s working on it right now. He’s a prominent plugin author in the community and does good work. If you want … Read more
For Facebook: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/ For Twitter: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/ For Google+ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-google-connect/ The twitter and facebook plugins will autopost from your site to each service. The G+ plugin is new, and still under development. I don’t know that there is any plugin yet that pushes notifications to G+….
Pretty sure the Facebook fan page RSS feed URL is like this: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=YOURFBFANPAGEID The fan page ID is the string of numbers at the end of the URL when viewing the page, for example, Jon Stewart’s fan page id is 193859733506: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jon-Stewart-for-President/193859733506 So you can do your normal RSS feed solution which takes entries and … Read more
There is a solution that came up recently that is growingly popular especially in the German speaking part of the net called the two-click-method. It loads the buttons only after the user has clicked a grayed out image of the button. This has the advantage of saving the privacy of your users as facebook and … Read more
Inspired by @Samuel Elh, but accounting for single or double quoted attributes and a href that might not be the first attribute of an anchor: function wpse_227315_strip_hyperlinks( $content ) { preg_match_all( ‘!<a[^>]*? href=[\'”]#[^<]+</a>!i’, $content, $matches ); foreach ( $matches[0] as $link ) $content = str_replace( $link, strip_tags( $link ), $content ); return $content; } add_filter( … Read more
In the source code I see two og:description meta tags. The first and correct one seems to be coming from your Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin. The other one is outside the plugin’s block, so I guess it’s defined elsewhere. Check your theme if it includes that meta tag. If not, check your other plugins. Disable … Read more
What about Network Publisher? Supports 25 networks, probably all you need. Worth noticing: It uses a third-party service LinksAlpha.