Missing parts of Phoca Open Graph

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Missing parts of Phoca Open Graph

Post by radik10 »

Hi, thanks for Phoca Open Graph, there are some missing things to improve, I think:
  • there is missing one default image + description + title for all categories, featured, articles => in case that the category, featured and images don't have defined images (=> Phoca Open Graph will display default logo image for all categories/featured/articles),
  • for every category in Joomla you can define description + image => these must Phoca Open Graph use for blog layout (blog of category),
  • in Joomla you can define image for category (and turn it on/off in settings) => regardless if you have turned on or off category images (in Joomla settings) for category blog, Phoca Open Graph should grab this images for blogs layout (and not 1st image from featured/category articles displayed in this blog layout) => reason is to have different images on facebook for category and different for articles, if category don't have an image, will by used main default image (logo),
  • Facebook is accepting only images bigger than 200x200 px - so if your intro image is smaller, Facebook will ignore it... so if you need to have on page intro-images smaller than 200x200px, it will be grat if Phoca Open Graph plugin will use images defined in "../images/phocaopengraph/" instead of those used in article(category). Now are used images from "../images/phocaopengraph/" only if there is no image in article.
missing Phoca documentation - on phoca webpage:
  • there is missing description for category (and featured) images defined in "/images/phocaopengraph/" folder => there you can define images for only articles but not for categories (or featured) - how to define, in this folder, images for categories?
  • missing description for "type" => it is important for all website, not for website's parts (article, blog, featured defined through menu items) right?
so basic logic is:
  • in joomla you will define descriptions and intro images for categories and articles => these Phoca Open Graph grab for blog layouts (in case if these information are empty, it will grab default description + image from Phoca Open Graph setting for article/category/featured),
  • if there is no description in Phoca Open Graph for article/category/blog, Phoca Open Graph will grab basic description and default logo image (min. 200x200px) for every article, category blog or featured blog defined in Phoca Open Graph settings (or from Joomla Site Meta Description in Site Settings).
Now this behavior is not present in Phoca Open Graph and it will help to improve this plugin and "OG: " ussage on Joomla pages. Thanks

Joomla 3.4.8, Phoca Open Graph 3.0.3, php 5.5.30
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Re: Missing parts of Phoca Open Graph

Post by Jan »

Hi, thank you very much for this info, I have written it to feature request list and will take a look at this when making new version.

Thank you, Jan
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