I am reviewing all my sites for Social Media tag performance and I’m getting some very mixed results.
In particular, sites built in Source and Foundation 6 seem to have an issue displaying a social card on LinkedIn but work fine with Twitter and Facebook - although there are some exceptions so it is highly unlikely to be either of these fine products - rather something to do with my approach.
In all cases, text is being picked up but not always the images. It has occurred to me that maybe images need a URL and, where some images are ‘embedded’ in a stack (and not in resources) maybe this is the issue?
Oddly, most of my older sites using a traditional theme appear to be OK.
I’m investigating this more but would appreciate any insight others may have.
Mostly very passively - just ticking the box and letting RW do the work. However, if the ‘feature image’ or text needs changing I do some manually within RW. What I find odd is when Facebook happily works with a tag but LinkedIn doesn’t - they both use OpenGraff. I’m aware LinkedIn has a few image requirements - notably rather large ‘minimum dimensions’ but even if the image is smaller it should display as a thumbnail.
In several of my Source sites I have used image within in a Source Container + stack and these are effectively background images with no URL. Hence I will do these manually and see what happens.
I am also thinking that images that are ‘embedded’ in a stack rather than warehoused or linked from Resources probably don’t have a URL - I shall ‘inspect the elements’ and take look at the tag code this evening and see if my theory is correct.
Whatever’s left I shall share the URL but I may have answered my own question!