[benconnor]

Thanks Brad 🙂

[benconnor]

Hi Brad,

That worked a treat: http://benconnormusic.com/song-idea-1efs9476/

Thanks so much!

I don't suppose you could tell me the code to make the background of the drop down menu black (hover over 'Music')?

I tried to alter it and it went transparent.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Oh great,

Thanks Brad. I'll give it a go in the morning.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Oh, sorry:

Here is an example:

http://benconnormusic.com/song-idea-1efs9476/

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Anitac,

No ideas?

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Anitac 🙂

Yeah, the problem, as I see it, is that the genesis featured posts sets a featured image for each post.

For all other posts and pages there is no problem.

The homepage is the only issue.

If a page has a featured image, this will overide the easy facebook share thumbnail. Consequently the two images presented when trying to share the homepage on facebook are the bjork image for the feature blog (on the homepage) and the bandcamp icon (which is the first in my homepage share button sequence - this is not actually chosen as a featured image, which suggests that facebook is still seeing any image that is included on a page as being more worthy of being the share image than the facebook share thumbnail image).

Your help would be much appreciated 🙂

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

OKay,

I've figured it out.

Nine hours of stuffing around – the price you pay for ignorance (or stupidity – take your pick)

I had an FB like button plugin as well as the publicise share buttons from jetpack active – i guy told me to activate a whole lot of plugins when I set up the site. I shouldn't have listened!

I just switched off the FB like button and the share buttons work fine.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Um...

Actually, may not be resolved.

Where as the FB 'like' button works, the share button is doing strange things.

May be that it will just a take a bit of time to correct itself.

What I'm actually thinking is that the jetpack open graph tags are required for it to do it's thing properly and there is another plugin generating open graph tags that I have to locate.

I do not have the wordpress SEO plugin enabled (as mentioned in the article) so it must be another one.
I'll try deactivating a few of them tomorrow.

Let me know if you have any ideas.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Oops here's the website:

http://yoast.com/jetpack-and-wordpress-seo/

[benconnor]

Eureka!!!!!

Problem solved.

All I had to do was enter the following code into the function.php:

add_filter( 'jetpack_enable_opengraph', '__return_false', 99 );

Jetpack was to blame.

The website's post has all the answers

Cheers,

[benconnor]

Eureka!!!!!

Problem solved.

All I had to do was enter the following code into the function.php:

add_filter( 'jetpack_enable_opengraph', '__return_false', 99 );

Jetpack was to blame.

The website's post has all the answers

Cheers,

Ben

 

[benconnor]

Hi Anitac,

Thanks for the info on being sure to put the actual URL of the image rather than the image post.

Will do when I can actually figure out where to put it.

I understand that the plugin has worked for you, but it isn't working for me and I can't figure out why.

Am I right in thinking that there isn't a way, or you don't know anyway to alter the facebook graph API?

Do you know what it means when your  Easy Facebook Share Thumbnails debug says this:

More Than One OG URL Specified:
Object at URL ‘http://benconnormusic.com’ of type ‘article’ is invalid because it specifies multiple ‘og:url’ values: http://benconnormusic.com, http://benconnormusic.com/.

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Vajrasar,

I've tried to navigate to http://www.yourfamilyyourmoney.com/images/CAP-Affiliate/BIB-banner-160?—80.jpg through my cpanel and FTP, but can't find it.

Where would it be?

Actually, are you sure it would be there?

The url was generated by yourfamilyyourmoney, of whom I am an affiliate.

Is there no way to alter the facebook graph API to get it out of there?

vajrasar

[benconnor]

Weird...

When I 'like' this post (http://benconnormusic.com/song-idea-1/) it shows the YouTube icon.

I swear to you anitac, I have made the feature image of this post the main photo in the header.

My brain is melting and it's 1.18am! Got to be up at 7am.

Oh dear.

Be great if you could help 🙂

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Anitac 🙂

Unfortunately I just tried the featured image approach and that didn't work either.

The crazy thing is that that image is not the ad code in the right widget. It's an old ad code that has since been well and truly eradicated - if you look closely you'll see its different to the one that's on the site now.

I've tried all sorts of things. I've removed the code, deactivated the ad sense plug in, cleared all data from the plug in etc. Each time, I tried the link button and the image remained.

Oh, I've also had a default thumbnail set up on the Easy Facebook Share Thumbnails plugin to no avail.

The issue is this (as expressed above):

I did do a debug on the Easy Facebook Share Thumbnails plugin

Among other things it told me that my Facebook Graph API is this:

{
“url”: “http://benconnormusic.com/”,
“type”: “article”,
“title”: “Ben Connor”,
“image”: [
{
"url": "http://www.yourfamilyyourmoney.com/images/CAP-Affiliate/BIB-banner-160x80.jpg"
}
],
“description”: “Alternative blues folk rock singer-songwriter”,
“site_name”: “Ben Connor”,
“updated_time”: “2013-02-07T12:13:05+0000″,
“id”: “226841744111572″
}

The url for that yourfamilyyourmoney banner is lodged into the graph API and I can't for the life of me determine how to alter the facebook graph API to get it out of there.

I just want this one put it in it's place: http://benconnormusic.com/?attachment_id=1620

The other thing it told me was that I have...

Errors That Must Be Fixed

More Than One OG URL Specified:
Object at URL 'http://benconnormusic.com' of type 'article' is invalid because it specifies multiple 'og:url' values: http://benconnormusic.com, http://benconnormusic.com/.

I haven't been able to locate my og:urls either!

I've been at this for five hours and my blog page numbers issue also remains unresolved.

I'm like the Antithesis to a hacker 🙂

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Vajrasar,

Unfortunately that doesn't work for me as I need to use it for the jetpack plugins I have.

My major issues seems to be that my facebook Graph API is this:
{
"url": "http://benconnormusic.com/",
"type": "article",
"title": "Ben Connor",
"image": [
{
"url": "http://www.yourfamilyyourmoney.com/images/CAP-Affiliate/BIB-banner-160x80.jpg"
}
],
"description": "Alternative blues folk rock singer-songwriter",
"site_name": "Ben Connor",
"updated_time": "2013-02-07T12:13:05+0000",
"id": "226841744111572"
}

Where is this situated? All i want to do is to change it so the that url is this: http://benconnormusic.com/?attachment_id=1620

If I can do that I wont have a crappy advertisement appearing when on people's feeds when they like my stuff.

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Vajrasar,

Thank you so much!!!!

That worked a charm.

All i had to do was whack this back in:

wp_head(); /** we need this for plugins **/
?>
</head>

I accidentally removed the ?> bit.

Thanks!!!

Just quickly, can you tell me where to add the following facebook metatags so I don't stuff up again:

<meta property="og:title" content="Ben Connor Music" />
<meta property="og:type" content="musician" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://benconnormusic.com/q" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://benconnormusic.com/?attachment_id=1620" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Ben Connor Music" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="663220279" />

My Easy Facebook Share Thumbnail just says 'Open Graph tags are <meta> tags that you add to the <head> of your website'

I'm hoping they will ensure that the image that appears on people's status when they facebook like me is the one that I add to the one above, but I can't figure out where to put them.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Dave,

My friend was unable to resolve the problem.

If you're still willing to help a slow bear like me, I would very much appreciate it.

What I didn't understand from your message is as follows:

1. Place the HTML code. You give the example of external services. I don't know what this is? What code should I be placing here?

2. For the second line, do I just simply put in the name of the plugin function?

3. There are three plugins that I want to go under the page numbers. Do I just repeat the process three times for each of the plugins?

Be great if you can help,

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Hi Dave,

I'm sure this is all very good advice, but I don't quite understand and it's all doing my head in 🙁

I've got a friend who seems to understand the problem, has a solution and is going to go into the back end of my site and make the adjustments.

Thank you so much for your advice. I'm sorry I'm not tech savvy enough to understand how to use it.

Cheers,

Ben

[benconnor]

Bummer,

No luck I'm afraid.

Did i need to tick the box for this:

Unhook genesis_post_meta() function from this hook?

Should I try the genesis_post_content box instead?

Ben

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