Featured image from event as facebook thumbnail?

[Chris]

Any idea on how to get an event’s featured image to be the default thumbnail for facebook shares? It displays my default thumbnail fine, but no other images are available as an option for events. Regular posts display a couple of options I was just wondering if there was anyway to get events to do the same. Thanks in advance.

[Jonah]

Hi Chris,

This has nothing to do with our plugin and is something you will need to work out in your theme. There are a number of posts on the net about setting the Facebook image in WordPress. Here is one: http://www.terabug.com/set-default-image-for-facebook-share-wordpress/

You can check specifically for single event pages by using:

if( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) {

}

Does that help?

– Jonah

[Chris]

thanks, I’ll check that out. Looks like their example could be hacked to look for the post_thumbnail rather than a custom field. appreciate the help.

[Jonah]

You’re welcome. Yeah and there’s lots of other examples. Here’s another one using the featured image: http://bigseadesign.com/blog/set-facebook-thumbnail-in-thesis

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