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Well, my website is finally finished and live. I'm pretty proud of it and very happy how it turned out. Thank you both for all the awesome support you gave me during the past year. Greatly appreciated.
One question: how do I insert my own META tags for my site? I could swear I saw a box for META tags somewhere in my theme settings but I can't find it now. I know I can easily edit the header.php file, but that would get overwritten with every North update.
Just FYI, I'm doing this mainly to create a post in FB announcing my website is redesigned and have a specific image and text show up in that post. But FB seems to be pulling the first <img src> tag it sees and grabbing that photo instead, which I don't want showing. It's also pulling the text from the first <p> tag it sees instead of what I specified in the META tags I inserted into the header. This is really driving me nuts.
Here are the META tags I inserted into at the top of the header.php file:
<meta property="og:title" content="NeptuneMedia - Web Development, User Interface, Programming and Print Design">
<meta property="og:description" content="NeptuneMedia is the Web Development and Visual & Print Design studio of Daniel Whittaker, specializing in Innovative Online User experience and Unique Print Design">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.neptunemedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sea-wave-cresting-light.jpg">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.neptunemedia.net">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
Great! We're very happy that your site is going live
There isn't a meta tag options in the theme I'm afraid, most themes do not have that option built in.
You would need to use a specialist SEO plugin such as Yoast to change the meta info. In the Yoast plugin you can also specify the image you want Facebook to grab (Facebook typically grabs the first image found on the page that is added in via the <img>.)
Hi Joanna and Filip,
Well, my website is finally finished and live. I'm pretty proud of it and very happy how it turned out. Thank you both for all the awesome support you gave me during the past year. Greatly appreciated.
One question: how do I insert my own META tags for my site? I could swear I saw a box for META tags somewhere in my theme settings but I can't find it now. I know I can easily edit the header.php file, but that would get overwritten with every North update.
Thanks guys!
Daniel
Just FYI, I'm doing this mainly to create a post in FB announcing my website is redesigned and have a specific image and text show up in that post. But FB seems to be pulling the first <img src> tag it sees and grabbing that photo instead, which I don't want showing. It's also pulling the text from the first <p> tag it sees instead of what I specified in the META tags I inserted into the header. This is really driving me nuts.
Hi Daniel,
Great! We're very happy that your site is going live
There isn't a meta tag options in the theme I'm afraid, most themes do not have that option built in.
You would need to use a specialist SEO plugin such as Yoast to change the meta info. In the Yoast plugin you can also specify the image you want Facebook to grab (Facebook typically grabs the first image found on the page that is added in via the <img>.)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Kind regards,
Joanna
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Yeah I figured I'd have to use a plugin.
But do you have any clue why FB would not recognize META tags I inserted into the header?
Hi Daniel,
I'm not sure about Facebook, they change they way they grab the page info quite often :/
Kind regards,
Joanna
Veented Support
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