Facebook extracts complete story instead of title

[sunnydays]

Hi

While copying the link of any story on facebook, it extracts the complete story in Link rather than just the story title.

Can you please let me know what needs to be change.

[JoeWa]

Facebook will display what it scrapes (you can check exactly what it sees by pasting your link into the query box here: developers.facebook.com/tools/debug). If you'd like to specify exactly what Facebook will scrape you need to add Open Graph meta tags (ogp.me) to your templates/meta.tpl file.

[sunnydays]

⍾ vlookup.in/Competitions/story.php?title=write-for-the-viewspaper - Facebook Developers

[sunnydays]

http://developers.facebook.com/tools...the-viewspaper

Hi I ran the debugger and found these warning but have no idea at all, how to fix these.

[cmstheme]

Try this on your Meta Tags:

 {if $pagename eq "story"}
<meta property="og:title" content="{$posttitle}" />
<meta property="og:description" content="{$meta_description}" />
<meta property="og:url" content="{$my_base_url}{$navbar_where.link2}" />
{/if} 
  

[sunnydays]

Hi
Thanks for the help.. Please let me know exactly which file I should edit.

I tried my hands with meta.tpl , tried to put this code along with the existing code and then this code only but no success. Besides that one more file name with meta "c_1_meta_tpl.php" I can see .

Code of existing meta.tpl is :

{* define your meta data here *}

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

{if $meta_description neq ""}
<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
<meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Search_SearchResults#} {$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stripslashes} " />
{else}
<meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_What_Is_Pligg_Text#|htmlen tities}" />
{/if}

{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
<meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
<meta name="keywords" content="{$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stri pslashes}" />
{else}
<meta name="keywords" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Keywords#}" />
{/if}

<meta name="Language" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Language#}" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />

Code of existing c_1_meta_tpl.php is :

<?php require_once('C:\softwares and setups\php+sql\xampp\htdocs\Competition\plugins\mo difier.sanitize.php'); $this->register_modifier("sanitize", "tpl_modifier_sanitize"); /* V2.20 Template Lite, 8 March 2008. (c) Mark Dickenson, Jon Langevin. GNU LGPL. 2012-06-07 18:26:30 India Daylight Time */ ?>



<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<?php if ($this->_vars['meta_description'] != ""): ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $this->_vars['meta_description']; ?>
" />
<?php elseif ($this->_vars['pagename'] == "search"): ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $this->_confs['PLIGG_Visual_Search_SearchResults']; ?>
<?php echo $this->_run_modifier($this->_run_modifier($_GET['search'], 'sanitize', 'plugin', 1, 2), 'stripslashes', 'PHP', 1); ?>
" />
<?php else: ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $this->_run_modifier($this->_confs['PLIGG_Visual_What_Is_Pligg_Text'], 'htmlentities', 'PHP', 1); ?>
" />
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($this->_vars['meta_keywords'] != ""): ?>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $this->_vars['meta_keywords']; ?>
" />
<?php elseif ($this->_vars['pagename'] == "search"): ?>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $this->_run_modifier($this->_run_modifier($_GET['search'], 'sanitize', 'plugin', 1, 2), 'stripslashes', 'PHP', 1); ?>
" />
<?php else: ?>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $this->_confs['PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Keywords']; ?>
" />
<?php endif; ?>

<meta name="Language" content="<?php echo $this->_confs['PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Language']; ?>
" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />

[cmstheme]

After you add that code in meta.tpl, go to Admin > Delete Template Cache.

It would also help if you post your whole meta.tpl code (enclose it with [php] or [code] tags)

[sunnydays]

Please find the meta.tpl code after adding your suggested code and enclosed in php tags..

Please let me know what is actually wrong with this.. Even i deleted the cache templates too.

{php}

{* define your meta data here *}

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

{if $pagename eq "story"}
<meta property="og:title" content="{$posttitle}" />
<meta property="og:description" content="{$meta_description}" />
<meta property="og:url" content="{$my_base_url}{$navbar_where.link2}" />
{/if}

{if $meta_description neq ""}
<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
<meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Search_SearchResults#} {$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stripslashes} " />
{else}
<meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_What_Is_Pligg_Text#|htmlen tities}" />
{/if}

{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
<meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
<meta name="keywords" content="{$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stri pslashes}" />
{else}
<meta name="keywords" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Keywords#}" />
{/if}

<meta name="Language" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Language#}" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />


{/php}

[sunnydays]

Hi after placing above code the site went down it was coming blank !!

[cmstheme]

Nope, don't enclose your code in meta.tpl with {php} tags. What I mean is when you post some code here in the forum, enclose it with [php] or [code] tags so that it will be easy to read, just like the code below.

Try to use this code in meta.tpl:

{* define your meta data here *}
 
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    
 
{if $meta_description neq ""}
    <meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
    <meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Search_SearchResults#} {$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stripslashes}" />
{else}
    <meta name="description" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_What_Is_Pligg_Text#|htmlentities}" />
{/if}
 
{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
    <meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
    <meta name="keywords" content="{$templatelite.get.search|sanitize:2|stripslashes}" />
{else}
    <meta name="keywords" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Keywords#}" />
{/if}  
 
    <meta name="Language" content="{#PLIGG_Visual_Meta_Language#}" /> <meta name="Robots" content="All" />
{if $pagename eq "story"}
<meta property="og:title" content="{$posttitle}" /> <meta property="og:description" content="{$meta_description}" /> <meta property="og:url" content="{$my_base_url}{$navbar_where.link2}" />
{/if}