og image

TBC · 2018-04-07 02:10:01

Ever since I discovered og image, I ahve used it and found it very useful. I cannot figure out how to use this very graphic, eye-catching tool in Backlight.

For example, in our old website, for Santa Fe, I had in the <head> tag:

So, for example, when we refer to this page on Facebook,, instead of a Plain-Jane box, the viewer sees this:

It catches their attention. As photographers, we are marketing to visual people, so this is a no-brainer. It has been around for quite some time (2010???)

I just cannot figure out how to do it. In Dreamweaver, I did it as SOP in the <head> tag as noted above.

Take care,

Daniel Leu · 2018-04-07 02:55:19

AFAIK, og:image is automatically set on album and album-set pages. It is set as well on regular pages as long as it contains an embedded gallery. There was discussion about this a while ago, but I can't find the thread. If you would like to have og:image populated on regular pages, you just have to include a gallery. If you assign a thumbnail, then I think it would not need to contain any images and therefore it is not visible.

TBC · 2018-04-08 18:54:57

Thank you, Daniel,

So, if I understand you corectly, as long as each of our pages contains either a gallery or an image, we are OK?

Take care,

Daniel Leu · 2018-04-09 02:13:13

That's my understanding, and you would need to assign the cover image in the album settings.

rod barbee · 2018-04-09 03:37:45

if you want to add an image before or after the page content, you can use Theater's Still Image option and publish an album with a single image and then insert that album into the page.

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#1 2018-04-07 02:10:01

og image

#2 2018-04-07 02:55:19

Re: og image

#3 2018-04-08 18:54:57

Re: og image

#4 2018-04-09 02:13:13

Re: og image

#5 2018-04-09 03:37:45

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