In case anyone else wants to use the open graph meta tags in a CMS I am going to post how to do it. (I made a post asking how to do this, but figured it out myself and thought it worth sharing).
I am using this in Zen Cart and Wordpress, each require a slightly different setup - but should be the same on other platforms, maybe some one else could post the specifics.
This allows you to automatically generate dynamic Facebook meta data - so that each page you stick a 'LIKE' button on will have its own title, description and URL in the FB meta tags.
Zen Cart
I am not sure if this is template dependant as all my sites use the same template and I haven't tested further. But it works just fine for me.
Place this in your header file along with all other META data.
Add this to your header to allow the URL to be echoed.
Wordpress
Add this to your header file:
I am using this in Zen Cart and Wordpress, each require a slightly different setup - but should be the same on other platforms, maybe some one else could post the specifics.
This allows you to automatically generate dynamic Facebook meta data - so that each page you stick a 'LIKE' button on will have its own title, description and URL in the FB meta tags.
Zen Cart
I am not sure if this is template dependant as all my sites use the same template and I haven't tested further. But it works just fine for me.
Place this in your header file along with all other META data.
Code:
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo META_TAG_TITLE; ?>"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" />
<meta property="og:url" content="<?php echo curPageURL(); ?>"/>
Code:
<?php
function curPageURL() {
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
}
?>Add this to your header file:
Code:
<?php if ( is_single() ) {
echo '<meta property="og:title" content="' . get_the_title(get_the_ID()) . '" />';
echo '<meta property="og:url" content="' . get_permalink() . '" />';
}
?>