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We are ramping up to have our blogs AutoPosted to a few social network and I need some assistance with images, specifically.
I have tested this before we went live on our development site and ran into a few issues. I have since completely undone all of the settings on the domain in the process of going live, but need to get a few questions answered:
1. Facebook requires an image, so you have a default placeholder that gets added to a post. We have replaced this in this location: /components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/images/placeholder-facebook.png and this seems to work to post to Facebook for posts that have no image.
2. LinkedIn does not require an image as far as I know, and I can find no equivalent placeholder for LinkedIn sharing, so instead, posts go to LinkedIn with a blank spot where the image should go and the post looks bad that way.
We know that the social networks all have different requirements for images that are sent over to them and if the exact right size is not sent, it gets cropped, stretched, or something else that makes it look bad.
Also, what is the parsing order for images to be taken to Facebook/LinkedIn? For instance: Cover image is used first, then first image in post, then placeholder if neither of those exist?
Your documentation is missing many details and experimenting with this to try to get the right results ends up creating MANY posts on our already active business page, which turns people off, so we need an answer that is accurate and complete.
I have tested this before we went live on our development site and ran into a few issues. I have since completely undone all of the settings on the domain in the process of going live, but need to get a few questions answered:
1. Facebook requires an image, so you have a default placeholder that gets added to a post. We have replaced this in this location: /components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/images/placeholder-facebook.png and this seems to work to post to Facebook for posts that have no image.
2. LinkedIn does not require an image as far as I know, and I can find no equivalent placeholder for LinkedIn sharing, so instead, posts go to LinkedIn with a blank spot where the image should go and the post looks bad that way.
We know that the social networks all have different requirements for images that are sent over to them and if the exact right size is not sent, it gets cropped, stretched, or something else that makes it look bad.
- Is there an image size that we can use that will appear correct on both Facebook and LinkedIn?
- Is there a default that can be specified for LinkedIn for those posts for which we have no image?
- Is there any plan to make this any easier for someone who is administering the Blog Posts and such so that they don't have to go to FTP to put things in place? This should be something that can be selected for each platform with the recommended sizes right on the admin page.
- LinkedIn has a place for a business logo to go in the setup of the API on EasyBlog. Is this used for anything? Only for a "LinkedIn business page"?
Also, what is the parsing order for images to be taken to Facebook/LinkedIn? For instance: Cover image is used first, then first image in post, then placeholder if neither of those exist?
Your documentation is missing many details and experimenting with this to try to get the right results ends up creating MANY posts on our already active business page, which turns people off, so we need an answer that is accurate and complete.
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