Hello,
Could you please be more specific about which meta tags you are referring to?
George
If it’s just about video:tag meta tags, the generated opengraph metadata can be filtered and delete the meta tags you do not want. For example:
function customize_og_suppress_videotag( $metatags ) {
$metatags_new = array();
foreach ( $metatags as $metatag ) {
if ( strpos($metatag, 'video:tag') === false ) {
$metatags_new[] = $metatag;
}
}
return $metatags_new;
}
add_filter( 'amt_opengraph_metadata_head', 'customize_og_suppress_videotag' );
Add this to the functions.php file of the theme.
George
Hi,
when I share link on FB, if in post have video, on FB will be published featured image with “play”. When I click on “play”, I just open that video from post from YT for expl, but not post. Can you tell me how to manage featured image when I share, not video from post.
Thanks
I’ll trz it, thanks a lot
Rika
This is an issue with how facebook deals with content that has an og:video meta tag. As far as I know there is no solution.
I can think of two workarounds:
1) Suppress og:video meta tags:
function customize_og_suppress_ogvideo( $metatags ) {
$metatags_new = array();
foreach ( $metatags as $metatag ) {
if ( strpos($metatag, 'og:video') === false ) {
$metatags_new[] = $metatag;
}
}
return $metatags_new;
}
add_filter( 'amt_opengraph_metadata_head', 'customize_og_suppress_ogvideo' );
2) The second workaround is a trick I discovered the other day. If you provide a small image size of the featured image to facebook, then its own player preview is smaller and leaves room for the post excerpt to be displayed. I’ve tried this with a medium size (set to 368×0 in Settings->Media) and then use it in the metadata like this:
function amt_use_medium_image_size_in_content_metadata( $size ) {
return 'medium';
}
add_filter( 'amt_image_size_content', 'amt_use_medium_image_size_in_content_metadata' );
Each workaround has its limitations. The choice is yours. 🙂
George
I’m marking this topic as resolved.
George
I am re-opening this topic because I think a setting to omit ‘og:video’ is really needed. This is the only way to resolve this.
BTW, omitting the ‘og:video’ does not seem to affect the object even if it is marked as a ‘video.other’ type. At least the facebook debug tool does not show any validation errors.
v2.8.1 will have an extra setting in the admin panel.
Thanks for your feedback.
George
Soon I’ll be releasing a new version with an option to omit og:video meta tags. If you have done more research about this issue, please let me know.
George
Hi,
2.8.1 has been released. The option to omit og:video meta tags exists in the Opengraph section of the plugin settings page. Please let me know if everything works as expected.
Kind Regards,
George
