Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt Monday at 02:04 PM
MSUKForum Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 When I share on Facebook sometimes it doesn't select any image, or it will pick someones avatar or my logo? Can I control this better?
opentype Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 Many sections (Pages databases, downloads, blogs …) have the option to set a featured image and that will be used automatically. Forums don’t have that, since no one wants to upload a specific image for that purpose for every singe topic. But this usually helps: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8992-og-image-for-forum-topics/ MSUKForum 1
Sheffielder Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 That looks perfect to me, although I daren't buy it until I know it won't be affected/outdated by the upcoming update to Invision
Jordan Miller Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 7 hours ago, Sheffielder said: That looks perfect to me, although I daren't buy it until I know it won't be affected/outdated by the upcoming update to Invision I bought that plugin and it's awesome. And if I don't want everyone to see the featured image in the post, I just set the image size to 1x1 pixel and voila it disappears (mostly).
Sheffielder Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 14 hours ago, breatheheavy said: I bought that plugin and it's awesome. And if I don't want everyone to see the featured image in the post, I just set the image size to 1x1 pixel and voila it disappears (mostly). How do you intervene to do that? E.g. if a member posts a new topic with an image in the thread, how do you spot that you don't want that image and then intervene? (my site is fast moving so I probably wouldn't spot them all)
MSUKForum Posted May 9, 2020 Author Posted May 9, 2020 On 5/8/2020 at 10:17 AM, opentype said: Many sections (Pages databases, downloads, blogs …) have the option to set a featured image and that will be used automatically. Forums don’t have that, since no one wants to upload a specific image for that purpose for every singe topic. But this usually helps: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8992-og-image-for-forum-topics/ This looks great, can it do it with articles in a DB? I guess I would need to specify the image field though.
opentype Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 30 minutes ago, jpointer2_merged said: This looks great, can it do it with articles in a DB? I guess I would need to specify the image field though. For Pages databases, you upload a record image, as mentioned above. That plugin only affects the forums, since it is only needed there.
MSUKForum Posted May 9, 2020 Author Posted May 9, 2020 4 hours ago, opentype said: For Pages databases, you upload a record image, as mentioned above. That plugin only affects the forums, since it is only needed there. Ah I see, I actually ditched the record image and used a separate image field instead because you can't make the record image compulsory.
Jordan Miller Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 10 hours ago, Sheffielder said: How do you intervene to do that? E.g. if a member posts a new topic with an image in the thread, how do you spot that you don't want that image and then intervene? (my site is fast moving so I probably wouldn't spot them all) Only subscribers on my forum can upload images. But if a member posts a new topic and has an image in it, but I want to use a different image it promote on social media, I simply upload it into their post, then set the size dimensions to 1x1 so it's invisible. I hope that makes sense haha.
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