G image problem

sherioz
(@sherioz)

10 years ago

I find that when I do a G+ share, it picks any old image on the page and not the featured image that I create specially for shares. If I want to control the image that G+ uses, I need to add a centered image close to the top of my post, and I do not always want to do that.

Is there something that can be done to fix that?

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bdbrown
(@bdbrown)

10 years ago

Hi sherioz.

not the featured image that I create specially for shares

Are you using a plugin to create that?

Thread Starter sherioz
(@sherioz)

10 years ago

No. I’m not using a plugin to make the featured image. I just make it on paint.net and upload in the featured image spot.

bdbrown
(@bdbrown)

10 years ago

The theme implements Google Micro-formats compatibility for author, dates, title and entry content if you use the Customizer > Global Settings > Performances and SEO “Use Structured Data Markup for your posts” option. To include images you might look at the https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/opengraph/ plugin.

Thread Starter sherioz
(@sherioz)

10 years ago

This is the response I got from my web designer:

Image markup guidelines

When marking up an image URL as a property of a type, make sure that the image actually belongs to the instance of that type. For example, if you mark up the schema.org/image property of schema.org/NewsArticle, the marked-up image must directly belong to that news article.

(https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data#multiple-entities-on-the-same-page)

The way I would interpret that is that the image will have to be displayed within the body of the article. I wouldn’t know how to change their mind on that one.

bdbrown
(@bdbrown)

10 years ago

The theme is using the hAtom micordata speicification which doesn’t appear to have a specific tag for an image:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom

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