Topic-icon Sending an image from Joomla website to FaceBook?

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11 years 10 months ago #23715 by jerrws
Would any of your extensions allow a user who edited an image on our Joomla 2.5 website to then click a "send to facebook" button and it allows then to login and post the edited image to their facebook wall. Basically I want my website users to create a funny image on my website and then send it to their facebook by clicking a button that says send to Facebook. Then the site directs them to the FB login page , they login and it is posted to their Facebook.

Hope that makes sense,
Jeremy
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11 years 10 months ago #23722 by alzander
Jeremy,
It makes sense, and there's a few ways we could recommend doing this. One, a simple Like button will post images (and a title/description for the page) to the users wall. With our Open Graph integration, you can easily set all 3 of those values. So, if each page for an image is unique, and you have a way to determine the image for that page, you could easily use our Open Graph easy-tags to say "Here's the image for this page". Then, when a user Like's it, it would post all that info for them.

The benefits of the Like button is that it helps your overall website's social status and helps to even create a little feedback (or competition) for the user by getting a higher Like count (which again, each Like will promote your page).

JFBConnect does also support the Send button which you could implement as well (or instead). The Send button lets a user send a specific page to their friends, so it's not as public. The Send button still uses the Open Graph tags though, so you can set all that information.

Hope that all helps explain, but if you have other questions, just let us know!
Alex
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11 years 10 months ago #23733 by jerrws
Positively great ideas and good possibilities there. I don't want to send the whole webpage just an image that was created on the webpage, if that makes sense. Can it be customized or configured for just that purpose?

Jeremy
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11 years 10 months ago #23745 by alzander
Jeremy,
Yes, there are ways that a user can publish just an image to his stream using JFBConnect. It would take a little bit of code, but nothing too difficult. Sharing just an image won't be as good for your site's social awareness and help drive traffic as much, just so you know. So, the image would post to Facebook and (I think) you could put a description with it as well, but it won't necessarily link back to your site. Maybe that's not what you want, but we're always trying to help our users increase social engagement and growth however we can!

Hope that helps. Of course, if you subscribe, we can help you however you need. We also have a 30-day money back guarantee just in case you can't get things going how you want!

Thanks,
Alex
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