Within a function or method, the return statement immediately stops the execution of the earlier. Hence the last line never gets interpreted. Switch the order of this: return $social_score; update_post_meta($post_id, ‘_social_score’, $social_score); to this: update_post_meta($post_id, ‘_social_score’, $social_score); return $social_score; Update: You are using three different variables for the post id, namely: $post_ID, $post_id and $post->ID. … Read more
From your comments, it seems you want to replace the post preview on facebook. This could be hard, because you try to modify the behavior of another webpage. With the opengraph protocol it can be done. add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘get_facebook_meta_tags’, 10, 0 ); function get_facebook_meta_tags() { global $post; // bail if the post is not in … Read more
Facebook caches shared links. Maybe you/someone else tried sharing the site when it was still under development and it hasn’t been updated on Facebook since. Try this: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Here is a simple way to add custom sharing buttons (just place this code where you want your sharing buttons to be displayed): <?php $twitter_username=”your_twitter_username”; $shortURL = esc_url(get_permalink()); $shortTitle = esc_attr(get_the_title()); $imgURL = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id() ); $twitterURL = ‘https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=”.$shortTitle.”&url=”.$shortURL.”&via=”.$twitter_username; $facebookURL = “https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=’.$shortURL; $googleURL = ‘https://plus.google.com/share?url=”.$shortURL; $pinURL = “http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=”.$shortURL.”&media=”.$imgURL.”&description=’.$shortTitle; ?> <a class=”facebook-btn” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/191983/<?php echo $facebookURL; ?>” … Read more
This plugin offers a login via Facebook mechanism, but is only compatible with v1 of the REST API currently: https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/
you can select any image and text from a page or post in the social section of your yoast section heres the instructions https://flothemes.com/yoast-seo-social-sharing/ you can also see what facebook is pulling before you share by using the debugger https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Unfortunately I do not think there is a way to do this. I believe I also read somewhere that modifying the Like button is against Facebook’s Terms of Service, so I would suggest not trying to go that route. Ultimately, Facebook decides what gets shown. You could set a background image under the like button … Read more
Simple Facebook Connect uses this exact registration widget. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/
The usage of curl in PHP is not considered good practice in WordPress. It comes with HTTP API to abstract network requests. It will use curl when available, but still work via other backends if it’s not and allow you to use WP debug plugins to troubleshoot requests, such as Core Control.
It’s assumed that your images are Facebook Image Sharing Compliant in size and quality, and you are trying to share single posttype ‘post’ only from a single template (single.php), and you are storing your image as post thumbnail. The following code will grab the post thumbnail (size = large) of particular post and put that … Read more