Controlling the image when linking to the calendar

[Justin Tippett]

Hi all,

I’ve got a website that has a range of industry related events. I want to promote the calendar and often link directly to it through our various social media channels. Problem is the image that is picked up by LinkedIn/Facebook etc seems to ‘grab’ the next event which is not what I want displayed and there is no way around it (that I can find).

How can I control the image so I can choose what image is displayed?

[Cliff]

Hi, Justin.

Are you asking about the image that social media picks up from your single events page or from your events archive page(s)?

Please provide a link(s) to the page you’ve noticed this issue with. If you share an annotated screenshot or video screen capture, it might help communicate what you’re seeing and what exactly the issue is.

[Justin Tippett]

So, to provide a more specific example. If I want to provide a link to my audience to view all the events coming up in February I use this link: http://www.contactcentrecentral.com/conferences/2017-02/.

The attached image though is what appears (using LinkedIn as the example)

[Cliff]

Interesting…

I see your site uses Yoast SEO, which generates this in the head of your page:

meta property="og:image" content="http://www.contactcentrecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Catch-all-Page.png"

Therefore, that’s the image I’d expect the social networks’ sharing previews pick up. I tried your link in Facebook’s Sharing Debugger and it did not choose that image: https://cl.ly/1t3W3b07212W

This is the image it chose: http://www.contactcentrecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Banner-Ads-4.jpg

I also tried http://www.contactcentrecentral.com/conferences/ in Facebook’s debugger and it said og:image should be specified even though I looked at that page’s source code and it is… and it’s the same as the /2017-02/ og:image

We can’t really help with social sharing issue like this, especially with other developers’ themes and plugins at play here. However, I hope the information I shared assists you in some way.

Please let me know if you think there’s more I can try to help with here. For example, if your site is in Testing for Conflicts mode (basically switch to Twenty Sixteen theme and deactivate all plugins and custom code other than Modern Tribe plugins) and it’s still acting unexpectedly.

[Cliff]

Oh, I do see your plugins are not at their latest versions.

Could you please make sure all your Modern Tribe plugins (and WordPress core) are at their latest versions?

• Downloads / Version Numbers
• License Keys
• TEC Automatic Updates
• or TEC Manual Updates
• WordPress core updates

Once you verify you’re on the latest versions, please test to see if the issue is still happening for you.

 

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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