Social facebook integration - picture issue

AED,
Installing and enabling the Open Graph - Content plugin should help by itself. That plugin will check the article text and should assign the first image it finds in the text as the image to use on a news feed. If there aren't any images in the article text, that can leave it up to Facebook to decide what image to use. In the next release of the Open Graph - Content plugin (in the next few days), there will be more 'fallbacks' if there are no images in the article.. it will then check if there's a category image, and some other areas that may have a relevant image.

As for setting a default image across your site, you can do that very easily, and we definitely recommend it. To do so, go to the Open Graph -> Configuration area of the JFBConnect admin area. In there is a big 'defaults' box. Add the following line (updating the link as appropriate for your site):That image will then be used if no other images can be found.

Once all setup, you can use Facebook's Debug Tool to test what they 'see' about your pages:
developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

Hope that all helps, but if you have any other questions, just let us know!
Alex

Glad to hear that got it going for you!

If you need anything else, just let us know. The new release should be out in a few hours. We're very excited for it to be out too!

Alex

Can you post, or Private Message, a link to that page? That's usually a UTF-8 encoding issue. We try to properly encode things correctly within JFBConnect, but sometimes the HTML output in your template specifies a different encoding. While browsers are more forgiving to incorrect encodings, Facebook isn't at all.

It could easily be a bug in JFBConnect as well... just need to see the page to understand more about the problem.

Thanks,
Alex

AED,
Thanks for the link to the site. There's some oddities about the encoding in the actual HTML of your page that I can't figure out how it's happening. Most characters are being properly UTF-8 represented. However, others are showing their raw UTF-8 encoding, which isn't how it should look. For instance, if you open the HTML on your page, and look at the section that shows your menu, you'll see items like "DENİZDE ÇATIŞMA" and "Dümenbaşı". However, in the actual article text, the sentences look like "Fırtınalar kanunu, bir alçak basınç merkezinin".

We've done a bit of testing with your exact article text on a development site. When we enter the same sentence into the Joomla editor, it's properly shown already decoded in our browser. Also, the Open Graph tags work properly.

If we use the no-editor option, and enter the already encoded characters (ç , etc), there are issues. This is likely because JFBConnect is re-encoding them, causing illegal characters.

So, can you tell me how you're entering your article contents, if you see the encoded characters in the text (they look like ç) or the decoded/real characters (Ç,Ş, etc)? Do you have any multi-lingual extensions installed, or anything else that may be trying to do extra encoding on the characters?

Any information you can provide will help us to understand where the problem lies and whether it's something that needs to be fixed in JFBConnect or on your site.

Thanks,
Alex

Oh.. as for Akeeba Backup issues, we'd need to know a lot more information. What do you mean by "the site didn't work"? Where there error messages, broken functionality, is it only with Facebook features or other components, etc? Until we know what isn't working, and how it's not like normal, there's not much I could suggest to look into.

Thanks,
Alex