Default image when sharing forum topics on social networks

[felipeelia]

While sharing ​this forum topic on Facebook, I've noticed that differently from what happens when we share a /news blog post, there is not a default image with it. As a fallback, Facebook tries to get the first image, so the topic is displayed with the user avatar (in this case a random image).

Can we use some default image for these cases too?

[Clorith]

This makes sense to me, since we some times get incorrectly marked gravatars, and it feels like we're "promoting" user-generated content by gratavars showing up

This should probably just be set so that all forum links return the WP logo.

[valentinbora]

Add og:image and a few other social meta tags

[jonoaldersonwp]

Some requested patch tweaks:

• Ensure that the site name isn't part of the og:title. E.g., it should always be "Cat pictures", rather than "Cat pictures | My cat blog".
• Add a query busting parameter all media assets. E.g., the image URL should append ?v={{ver}}, so that we can change/update more easily in the future.
• Add an og:type tag, with a value of article.
• Add an og:description tag, with a value of the page's meta description.
• Add og:image:height and og:image:width tags, following the og:image tag.
• Add an og:url tag which echoes the canonical URL tag of the page.
• Remove the twitter:text:title tag; it's redundant.
• Add <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />

Probably more tweaks to come, but that'll make it a bit more robust for now.

[Clorith]

These changes seem to be in place, but have gone under the radar and are not referenced in this ticket, I can't find it in the public repo, so it might be in a non-public piece of code for now.

Could you confirm things are looking good (I just used the Facebook debugger to verify that it looks as expected on social media)

[dd32]

Replying to Clorith:

These changes seem to be in place, but have gone under the radar and are not referenced in this ticket, I can't find it in the public repo, so it might be in a non-public piece of code for now.

I think this was actually a change in Jetpack rather than us setting it directly.

The image is probably via #5475 / #975: pub/jetpack-social-metadata.php

Looks like the only things from @jonoaldersonwp that are different are:

Add og:image:height and og:image:width tags, following the og:image tag.

Jetpack doesn't include these.

Add <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />

Jetpack sets these to summary.

I think this ticket is fixed enough.

[jonoaldersonwp]

Agreed; close enough!