Zoo Articles and the 'First Image'

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13 years 4 months ago #30592 by iangoo

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Hi.

There's lots of posts like this, but I've not seen a solution that might work for me. Here's the problem, feel free to ignore me as my temporary solution is working well enough as a comprimise...

I'm using 'Social Backlinks' to automatically post my new articles to Facebook/Twitter etc. and JFB is sitting in the background controling the content of those posts. The problem I'm trying to overcome is that when JFB is set to use the 'first image in article' it actually uses an image from a module elsewhere on my page. The articles are all created in YooTheme Zoo, rather than the standard Joomla article system.

If you have any advice I'd be grateful. At the moment I've got JFB specifying a specific image and description which is working fine (I just seek perfection!).

My website: www.thedestinationlounge.co.uk/en/lounge-offers - I'm posting new offers added to a specific Zoo category, but they also appear here.
Here's the facebook page: www.facebook.com/thedestinationlounge
And here's the image that appears when I set JFB to 'First Article Image', which appears in a module towards the bottom of the page...

Any advice gratefully received.

Cheers!!!!!!!

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13 years 4 months ago #30630 by alzander

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Ian,
Right now, we don't support Zoo for automatically detecting images, as you've noticed. We are planning the creation of some Open Graph plugins over the next month or so, and Zoo is one of those extensions we'd like to add support for.

Right now though, there really isn't an automatic way to do it. However, there are some things possible that you may not be aware of:
* You can add {SCOpenGraph image=http://yoursite.com/link-to-image.jpg} on any page (in the Zoo content, etc) and that will set the image for that page.
* You should be able to use the Open Graph - Custom plugin to set a default image on a per-category basis in Zoo, or some other method. The content plugin lets you look for certain query strings, like com_zoo&catid=12, and then set specific default tags for that category. You can still override those values with {SCOpenGraph ...} tags on the page.

If you need more information about the above, or anything else, just let us know. I hope that gets you started or gives you some ideas!

Alex

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13 years 4 months ago #30641 by iangoo

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Thanks Alex.

I thought that would be the case, but as I said it's no huge problem as I'm using JFB to specify a single graphic for the category. That will suit me fine until the Zoo plugins are created!

Thanks for the tips.

Ian.

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13 years 4 months ago #30651 by alzander

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Glad to hear you've got something working that you can live with for now. We're excited to expand our Open Graph plugin lineup, but just need to get over a few other feature and development hurdles first.

Thanks, and good luck with your site,
Alex

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