EasyBlog Autoposting Images - need specifics
By Scott Lavelle on Wednesday, 08 November 2017
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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.


  • 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.
Hi Scott,
Is there an image size that we can use that will appear correct on both Facebook and LinkedIn?
For Facebook, you may refer to this link(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices/#images).

For LinkedIn, make sure the image uses a 1.91:1 ratio.
Is there a default that can be specified for LinkedIn for those posts for which we have no image?
Unfortunately, currently there is no default LinkedIn image for posts without 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?
Currently we do not have any plans for this. Perhaps you can post this in EasyBlog's feature request category so others can vote on this feature.
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"?
Are you referring to the application logo(http://take.ms/iqr5M)? If yes, this is only displayed on LinkedIn.
Also, what is the parsing order for images to be taken to Facebook/LinkedIn?
The order should be cover image first, then content image.
For LinkedIn, if there are no cover or content image, LinkedIn will actually get the post author's avatar.
Raymond
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Wednesday, 08 November 2017 18:06
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Regarding this
Are you referring to the application logo(http://take.ms/iqr5M)? If yes, this is only displayed on LinkedIn


I understand that this is only for linkedin, but where is it actually used?

In our testing, if there is no cover or post image, nothing goes to linked in aside from text. This is to personal profile not business page. No business logo, no avatar, just text with a blank white box to the left of it.

Thanks for the rest of the answers. What I'm reading is that the 1.91:1 image is the ratio requested for both fb and linkedin. Unfortunately, this stuff is hard to get right. I feel bad for non technical people like our customers to have to try to understand how this works.
Scott Lavelle
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Wednesday, 08 November 2017 18:54
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Hey Scott,
I understand that this is only for linkedin, but where is it actually used?
Based on what I know, the application logo in LinkedIn is for basically identifying your apps on your applications page(http://take.ms/HpEsP).
In our testing, if there is no cover or post image, nothing goes to linked in aside from text.
Hmm I am not able to replicate this as the post author avatar should be used when there are no post cover or content image(http://take.ms/3nPtC). Perhaps you can provide me the LinkedIn access so we can test and investigate this on the account experiencing this?

For the image size, you are right. The users would have to learn as well as there is no one size fits all solution here. As long as the uploaded image is not too small, normally the images are just cropped to a certain degree.
Raymond
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Wednesday, 08 November 2017 19:20
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