[BirdOPrey5]

Reserved.

[bzcomputers]

Using 4.2.0 PL3 - For me the og:description did not change. Although it looked good already (first 150 chars. of the thread). The og:title property was added but the content is blank.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

Using 4.2.0 PL3 - For me the og:description did not change. Although it looked good already (first 150 chars. of the thread). The og:title property was added but the content is blank.

I wondered if the description change was a more recent issue... If your og:description is already correct no need for this obviously. Maybe the issue is limited to 4.2.1/4.2.2 - need to do more testing. Thanks for heads up

[CharlieDelta]

I am using 4.2.0 PL3 and it worked great!

Thank you for this BOP.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

Using 4.2.0 PL3 - For me the og:description did not change. Although it looked good already (first 150 chars. of the thread). The og:title property was added but the content is blank.

Weird. I tested this on a 4.2.0 forum with no other add-ons installed the default og:description was the site default. When i installed the mod it worked exactly as expected provided the better description and an og:title tag. Perhaps you already have some mod making the fix?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

I am using 4.2.0 PL3 and it worked great!

Thank you for this BOP.

Thanks for letting me know!

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Weird. I tested this on a 4.2.0 forum with no other add-ons installed the default og:description was the site default. When i installed the mod it worked exactly as expected provided the better description and an og:title tag. Perhaps you already have some mod making the fix?

Figured it out and you are correct. It is the unreleased Dragonbyte SEO I'm beta testing which was already doing this.

[sv1cec]

Installed, and it works as advertised.

If only my FB-Connect button was working too!!!!!!!!

[I.G.O.T.A.]

Installed and voted for MOTM!

[sv1cec]

OK, I solved my Connect button issue and I made a small change to this hack, so that it covers all pages of the site. Here is the code I used.

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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

OK, I solved my Connect button issue and I made a small change to this hack, so that it covers all pages of the site. Here is the code I used.

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That may be OK for people with just the vB 4.x forum, but I would not recommend it for people with the VB 4.x Suite as Blog and CMS articles will then lose their custom titles.

[sv1cec]

Obviously Joe is right about this (not using my code shown above, if you are using vBSuite.

However, being the stubborn person I am, I keep trying to figure out how to fill the og: array with the proper values.

So far, here is what I have come up with:

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So far, the og:title parameter is filled by the $bloginfo['title'] variable and that's a good thing. However, the og:description doesn't seem to get updated from $blog['message'].

I am using the blog_show_entry template as a guide line, and in there, it appears that the proper variable to use is indeed $blog['message'], but that is obviously not set, when the script above loads?? I do not understand.

Interestingly enough, the vbcms articles automatically get the proper og:description (the article text itself, but their title comprises of the site title and then the title of the article. I wonder if there is a way to use only the article's title.

[ZUCCO]

Looks cool, thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

sv1cec, and everyone-

I went ahead and upgraded this to version 1.2.0- it now adds full support for a blog description (limited to 300 characters if need be) and a better blog title.

The blog title is now formatted "blog title Posted By username"

And the "Posted By" uses the default vBulletin phrase so it will translate to whatever language your forum uses.

I did a lot of research on using it for Articles- it does not appear worth the effort- the way Articles are coded you simply can't get the title or preview text where the facebook open graph text is built. It could be done but would likely need additional plugins- but besides that Articles have a meta description option that you can fill in yourself and if available vBulletin does use the meta description as the open graph description on Article pages.