Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Cards on Register / Login pages

Well, you can either set up the defaults in the Social Meta backend area (which would apply to all pages) or you can add the SCOpenGraph easy-tag to a template override for those views. There is not specifically one for our mini-registration view. Can you verify that you're talking about JFBConnect's registration view and not the Joomla standard registration/login?

Without checking code, I believe we have it set up if you do image and description like that it will set up both the Twitter and Open Graph values. If you want to target just twitter, you'd preface with twitter: and for open graph og:, for example:

[code]{SCOpenGraph og:image=FULL/PATH/TO/OPENGRAPH/IMAGE.png}{SCOpenGraph twitter:image=FULL/PATH/TO/TWITTER/IMAGE.png}

Please, Can you consider this feature for next release/s ?

I'm confused from your description if it's the Joomla register/login pages or whether it's JFBConnect's view. If it's Joomla, then no, we will not overwrite standard Joomla functionality and you will be responsible for your own template override. If it is JFBConnect's mini-registration view, perhaps you could add it to an existing language string for that page in the meantime.

-Melissa

If it's a core Joomla page, then the template override would be the way to do it. If you have trouble adding the easy-tags, please let us know.

Please note, that once you change Open Graph tags on a page, you may need to manually re-scrape the page before they show up in Facebook properly. You can do that with Facebook's Sharing Debugger .

-Melissa

Thanks for the suggestions. We've considered a few ways of allowing adding open graph tags in the admin area to make it simpler. The issues and reasons we haven't yet are:
1) Adding Open Graph tags to menu area is a good idea. However, it causes issues in that:
a) Some menu items apply to many, many pages.. like a blog layout view menu item would also assign those tags to all the articles that a user clicks on from that menu item, which wouldn't be beneficial and likely a problem.
b) Menu items don't cover all pages.. so we still need a generic way for all pages to add tags.

That's why we've always had the easy-tags, like {SCOpenGraph title=Great Title for This Page}. That can be added in any article and, indeed, some other extensions do include SCOpenGraph tags on the page (similar to an API).

I hope that helps, but we'd love to hear any other thoughts you have and we'll gladly keep considering other ways to make Open Graph tags more easily accessible and easier to add.

Thanks,
Alex

1) Adding Open Graph tags to menu area is a good idea. However, it causes issues in that:
a) Some menu items apply to many, many pages.. like a blog layout view menu item would also assign those tags to all the articles that a user clicks on from that menu item, which wouldn't be beneficial and likely a problem.

The problem that arises here is, let's say you have a standard blog, called "SourceCoast's Tech Blog". If you create a menu item for this and add the following Open Graph Tags:
* Title - "SourceCoast's Tech Blog"
* Description - "Amazing tech blog about Joomla. Read here for all you need to know"
* Image - "techblog.jpg"
The above would work great for the blog home page that lists all blog entries. The problem is that the Itemid for the blog will be added to all articles the user clicks on from the blog main page. That would mean that every blog post would have those same Open Graph tags, which in all cases would be more generic and not as helpful as specific tags for the article.

From JFBConnect's perspective, it would be hard for us to know if the menu item really applies to this page or not, which would make it hard for us to know which way to prioritize tags.. use the automatically generated ones from the Open Graph - Content plugin or the menu items?

Similar issues would happen with something like JomSocial, EasySocial or Community Builder. One menu item goes to the main social landing page, but many sub-items (like profile pages) use the same menu item.

B - "...Menu items don't cover all pages..." = Again, What do you mean exactly ? Can you provide me any examples ?

Every page in Joomla doesn't always have a menu item associated with it. You can link directly to any article with index.php?option=com_content&id=23 for article 23. You can also add an Itemid (or it may be added automatically by Joomla if coming from a blog post or something), but every page is not guaranteed to have a menu item associated with it.

I hope that helps, but if you need anything else, please let us know!

Thanks,
Alex