By Sean Carney on Tuesday, 27 May 2014
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I would love to know how to tweak the layouts for the auto-posting for EasyDiscuss to our Facebook pages.
Hopefully it is easy to be able to add more text from the original discussion and also have the title display and do not want the title to display twice.
Also, I am also wondering if there is a way to set up a default image in the event that the discussion forum posted does not have an image?
In the image I am attaching all of the text above the image had to be added by me AFTER it was posted to facebook by editing the entry on the facebook page.
What are our options now? Are there more options coming in the future?
Thanks, Sean
Hello Sean Carney,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Unfortunately that was no setting for change the default image and the content length from backend in current system
But you can insert a image file in this file JoomlaFolder/media/com_easydiscuss/images/default_facebook.png
*Notice : Try get the image width and height is same like the default_facebook.png and modify your image file name to "default_facebook.png" then rename the original default_facebook.png image file to other name like default_facebook.png_bak

Also, you can modify the content length from this file
JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\classes\facebook\helper.php
LINE 150

// you can modify the > 30 < length
'message' => JString::substr( strip_tags( $text ), 0, 30 ) . '...',


Hope this help.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014 12:59
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Do you know if there are plans to have the ability to change the default image and control the content length for auto posting to facebook?
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014 06:58
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Hello Sean Carney,

Sorry for late reply to this,
I will add this suggestion in our Easydiscuss feature request list and see how it goes.
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014 11:23
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I changed my picture as instructed above. You can see the new image here:
https://www.starch-smart.com/media/com_easydiscuss/images/default_facebook.png

But, the image did NOT make it over to our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/starchsmart as can be seen in the discussion post
"Do You Have a Health Testimony to Share"
Actually after writing this I thought that I may have to flush the old image out of the cache at my CDN at Amazon Cloudfront but after invalidating the image I tried once again and posted a discussion:
"How to Eat Starch-Smart With No Family Support?" but it still did not work. It is getting late so I will try again tomorrow.

also, I changed the value for the length of the introtext to be 230 characters instead of 30 characters. I believe it is working.
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Friday, 30 May 2014 10:21
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Hello Sean Carney,

Sorry for late reply to this,
It seems like you configured is correct the default image name, i also tried to debug and see is it get the correct your new logo image file from your site.

The result is get correct image, but i tried to copy the URL to Facebook debugger tool, the result can't find out the new logo image file, can you try clear everything cache again from your site and is it cached causing this Facebook still getting the default image file?

Even i tried to rename the original default_facebook.png file to another name, the Facebook still getting that image file when your post is empty image.
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Friday, 30 May 2014 15:49
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How odd is that. I have just cleared the cache again on my site. I am also invalidating the file on three different Amazon Cloudfront distributions. But, I believe you are correct that this is a caching problem in which case it will take care of itself in time. I will keep my eye on it. fortunately the image that you have provided be default also looks nice, it just isn't ours. :-) So, I am not going to worry about this again unless it does not clear up within a week. :-) Also, I do wonder if maybe Facebook might be caching the files. (I also did this for the default image for EasyBlog).
thanks for looking into this!!!
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Saturday, 31 May 2014 01:05
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Hello Sean Carney,

You're welcome, we will glad to help you guys as much as we can.
Okay, keep us updated then.
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Saturday, 31 May 2014 02:20
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