Description
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. Most notably, this allows for these pages to be used with Facebook’s Like Button and Graph API as well as within Twitter posts.
The Open Graph plugin inserts the Open Graph metadata into WordPress posts and pages, and provides a simple extension mechanism for other plugins and themes to override this data, or to provide additional Open Graph data.
This plugin does not directly add social plugins like the Facebook Like Button to your pages (though they’re pretty simple to add). It will however make your pages look great when shared using those kinds of tools.
FAQ
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How do I configure the Open Graph plugin?
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You don’t; there’s nothing to configure and there is no admin page. By default, it will use whatever standard WordPress data it can to populate the Open Graph data. There are very simple yet powerful filters you can use to modify or extend the metadata returned by the plugin, described below.
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How do I extend the Open Graph plugin?
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There are two main ways to provide Open Graph metadata from your plugin or theme. First, you can implement the filter for a specific property. These filters are of the form
opengraph_{name}
where {name} is the unqualified Open Graph property name. For example, if you have a plugin that defines a custom post type named “movie”, you could override the Open Graph ‘type’ property for those posts using a function like:function my_og_type( $type ) { if ( get_post_type() == "movie" ) { $type = "movie"; } return $type; } add_filter( 'opengraph_type', 'my_og_type' );
This will work for all of the core Open Graph properties. However, if you want to add a custom property, such as ‘fb:admin’, then you would need to hook into the
opengraph_metadata
filter. This filter is passed an associative array, whose keys are the qualified Open Graph property names. For example:function my_og_metadata( $metadata ) { $metadata['fb:admin'] = '12345,67890'; return $metadata; } add_filter( 'opengraph_metadata', 'my_og_metadata' );
Note that you may need to define the RDFa prefix for your properties. Do this using the
opengraph_prefixes
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How to enable/disable “strict mode”
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The plugin populates the meta ‘name’ attribute alongside the ‘property’ attribute by default. Because both, the
og:*
andtwitter:*
names, are actually registered at https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions, this stays compliant with the HTML5 spec. If you want to use a more strict way anyways, you can enable the scrict mode by adding the following line to yourconfig.php
define( 'OPENGRAPH_STRICT_MODE', true );
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Contributors and Developers
“Open Graph” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Change Log
Project maintained on github at willnorris/wordpress-opengraph.
version 1.12.1 (Jul 15, 2024)
- fix fediverse account normalization
version 1.12.0 (Jul 3, 2024)
- support
<meta name="fediverse:creator" />
version 1.11.3 (Jun 4, 2024)
- don’t return description for password protected posts
version 1.11.2 (Nov 13, 2023)
- stript tags from title, site-name and description
version 1.11.1 (Apr 03, 2023)
- fixed a typo
version 1.11.0 (Oct 21, 2021)
- fixed attachment issue
- fixed PHP 7.4 issue
version 1.10.0 (Apr 20, 2020)
- basic video support
- basic audio support
version 1.9.0 (Mai 14, 2019)
- show only featured image if available
- prefer header images over site-icon
- use avatar for profile pages
- fallback to description if title is empty
- better twitter
card
handling
version 1.8.3 (Jan 27, 2019)
- added escaping for the missing attributes
version 1.8.2 (Nov 21, 2018)
- fixed PHP warning issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-count-parameter-must-be-an-array-or-an-object-that-implements-c/
version 1.8.1 (Nov 19, 2016)
- change
og:image
to use the full size of image (props @torenord)
version 1.8.0 (Jan 29, 2016)
- fixed
article:author
property - added
article:modified_time
- added first category as
article:section
version 1.7.0 (Jan 18, 2016)
- added “strict mode” setting
- better twitter:card handling
- basic twitter:creator support
- WordPress coding standard
version 1.6 (Dec 30, 2014)
- implemented
get_the_archive_title
andget_the_archive_description
(new in WordPress 4.1) - basic twitter cards support (thanks to elroyjetson)
- replace
$post->post_title
withget_the_title()
(see #17 for details)
version 1.5.1 (Nov 13, 2012)
- fix duplicate opengraph markup when used with jetpack plugin (for real)
version 1.5 (Nov 13, 2012)
- include descriptions on tag and category pages
- include profile metadata on author pages
- fix bug with 404 pages include extra og:image values
- general code cleanup (including removal of dependency on global vars)
- fix duplicate opengraph markup when used with jetpack plugin
version 1.4 (Aug 24, 2012)
- better default description
- include all images that are attached to a post, so that users can choose
which to use when sharing the page. If the post has a post thumbnail, that
is still used as the primary image.
version 1.3 (May 21, 2012)
- add ‘opengraph_prefixes’ filter for defining additional prefixes
- add new basic properties, and remove some old ones. This is a breaking
change for anyone that was using the old properties, but they can always be
added using the ‘opengraph_metadata’ filter. (see f476552 for details) - updates to many default values, particularly for individual posts and pages
(thanks pfefferle) - add basic support for array values (see d987eb7)
version 1.2 (Feb 21, 2012)
- switch to newer RDFa prefix syntax rather than XML namespaces (props
pfefferle)
version 1.1 (Nov 7, 2011)
- fix function undefined error when theme doesn’t support post thumbnails
version 1.0 (Apr 24, 2010)
- initial public release