No thumbnail on facebook when sharing item from K2

Facebook is not showing K2 item thumbnail when sharing the page.

Actually, no thumbnail at all !!!

Hi

Please show me the page with an example of article You are trying to post on facebook.

This is quite frustrating.

I have 2 sites on same server, both with Instyle template.
One doesn't show thumbnails on facebook, other one does.

This is what I get from FB debugger


"Errors that must be fixed:
Can't download
Could not retrieve data from URL."


Any idea?

A N Y B O D Y ? ? ?

Hi

Hehe. I was working on Your question when You have added both this posts. Please remember that every bump of the thread moves question to the end of the line and You need to wait longer. Luckly I have this one oppenend already.

Please edit file /html/com_k2/templates/default/item.php and on top of this file add this code:

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<?php if( !empty($this->item->image) ): ?>
<script type="text/javascript">(function($) {$(document).ready(function() {
   $('head').append('<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $this->item->image; ?>" />');
});})(jQuery)</script>
<?php endif; ?>


This still may need a small fix, because I'm not sure the path without seeing it in live site.

Nothing happened.

Do you want direct access?

Hi

Hehe. I was working on Your question when You have added both this posts. Please remember that every bump of the thread moves question to the end of the line and You need to wait longer. Luckly I have this one oppenend already.

Please edit file /html/com_k2/templates/default/item.php and on top of this file add this code:

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<?php if( !empty($this->item->image) ): ?>
<script type="text/javascript">(function($) {$(document).ready(function() {
   $('head').append('<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $this->item->image; ?>" />');
});})(jQuery)</script>
<?php endif; ?>


This still may need a small fix, because I'm not sure the path without seeing it in live site.

Hi

Yes please tell me the url to Your site.

Www.total-inland-dalmatia.com

Hi

I cannot see my code used on Your website, but You already have a pointing to an image on the articles I've seen:

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<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.total-inland-dalmatia.com/media/k2/items/cache/e4c07973dbc8eb2f7380bdedc4201087_S.jpg" />


this is codded properly. So I've checked Your site with facebook tool and I have a message that informations cannot be downloaded from Your site:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/d ... -the-month

So I've checked our demo and it works properly. I think it has to be something from server of 3rd party extention. Do You have any plugins which should add opengraph functionality installed already ?
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/d ... rary-shoes

Hi

I had to ask programmers for help. That's the first case I see where facebook doesn't see the site. Are You sure site is not blocked from access from some countries or other restrictions ?

Hi

Programmers answered right away. They think it's becuase You have multiple facebook applications and each one is using a different ID. Facebook does not allow to use multiple scripts. I have disabled facebook modules in sidebar, but looks like it's not enought. Please check this tip from programmers.

Fixed...

There's new K2 template file attached so it might help you in a future

= = = SITE INFO = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Joomla! 3.2.3
K2 Version 2.6.8

Web Server Apache
PHP version 5.3.28
MySQL version 5.6.16
GD image library bundled (2.1.0 compatible)
Multibyte string support Enabled
Upload limit 20M
Memory limit 128M
Open remote files (allow url fopen) Yes
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Hi

So You mean problem was in override to K2 file? Can You please tell me what was it exactly ? File looks as the orginal one to me.