1 Topic by markfriedman (edited by markfriedman 2015-02-04 21:33:24)

  • Registered: 2014-12-29
  • Posts: 41

Topic: Social Buttons - inconsistent results

Clicking on any button - except Facebook - passes the specific image to the related program (Google +, for example).

The Facebook button, however, only passes the Gallery in which the specific picture resides.

So I have a few questions:  Are my experiences unique or have other folks seen similar results?  How are those buttons supposed to work?  What are they supposed to pass?

As a follow-up, has anyone tried ShareThis instead of using the Showkase code?

  • Registered: 2012-12-16
  • Posts: 940

Re: Social Buttons - inconsistent results

With Facebook, it is not possible to pass individual thumbnail images via their share URL.
Facebook takes all the information to populate the pop-up share window from Open Graph tags in the web page: http://ogp.me/
It uses the og:image for the image and the og:title and og:description for the text.
(Showkase automatically includes Open Graph tags in pages.)

As a follow-up, has anyone tried ShareThis instead of using the Showkase code?

I've not personally tried ShareThis but perhaps other users have...