How can I designate image and title for the calendar url for social media?

[Tyler]

I have no problem sharing individual events on facebook or twitter, but I would like to promote the full calendar itself and want to specify an image and title for it that facebook and twitter will pick up. Is there a way to do this since it’s an archives page and not an actual page or post?

[George]

Hey Samantha,

Thanks for reaching out.

There’s not an official or “out-of-the-box” way to do this sort of thing with our plugins at this time. The main details in this respect would come from the HTML header of the page, which is mostly dictated by your theme.

You would unfortunately have to get pretty creative with some custom coding, and write custom filters for wp_head that echo proper meta tags based on the event page displaying.

So to implement this, you would have to write that custom code or hire a professional developer to do it for you. We have a list of great developers here → http://m.tri.be/18k1 (and have no affiliation with any of these folks—they’re simply some well-respected names in the community that we’ve compiled to share in situations like this one).

I’m sorry to disappoint, but hope this information helps you move forward! Please note that you may also be able to find free plugins on wordpress.org that add this sort of functionality—we do not endorse or recommend any specific such plugin, but here is an example of one that I found that adds twitter card details: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/

Please let me know if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with!

Sincerely,
George

[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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