Michael Ott

Open Graphite lets you control how your WordPress content is viewed when shared on social media.
Typically when one of your pages is shared on social media (Facebook for example), the platform will use the first image and text it can find on the page. This is usually not ideal and often truncates the content into something nonsensical, resulting in the page being less likely to be engaged with.
Open Graphite solves this problem, by allowing you to customise the image, title and description of any of your pages that are shared on social media, all without compromising the original content.
<h3>How to use</h3>
For the homepage…
<ul>
<li>Go to Open Graphite (admin side menu)</li>
<li>Set your homepage title, description, image and object type</li>
<li>Enter a Facebook app ID (optional)</li>
<li>Enter a Twitter username (optional)</li>
<li>Choose a Twitter card type</li>
<li>Select which post types to enable for</li>
</ul>
For posts and pages…
<ul>
<li>Create a new post or page (or edit an existing one)</li>
<li>Scroll down to the Open Graphite metabox</li>
<li>Enter your desired title, description, image and object type</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Support</h3>
While the free version of Open Graphite is supported in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-graphite" rel="ugc">WordPress support page</a>, one-on-one priority support is given to <a href="https://rocketapps.com.au/open-graphite-pro/?origin=open-graphite" rel="nofollow ugc">Open Graphite Pro</a> license holders.
<a href="https://rocketapps.com.au/open-graphite-pro/?origin=open-graphite" rel="nofollow ugc">Open Graphite Pro</a> has additional features, such as:
<ul>
<li>The ability to use with any custom post type</li>
<li>Force Facebook to automatically and immediately update your title, description or featured image when you make edits</li>
<li>Mobile and desktop previews for Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin</li>
<li>WooCommerce product support</li>
<li>Pinterest specific options</li>
<li>Enhanced Slack sharing</li>
<li>Enable automatic defaults for titles, descriptions, featured images and object types</li>
<li>Open Graph content indicators</li>
<li>Limit the number of characters for titles and descriptions (prevent your titles and descriptions getting truncated)</li>
<li>Open graph check tool</li>
<li>Additional open graph options</li>
<li>Priority support</li>
</ul>

Open Graphite

Control how your content is viewed when shared on social media.

Marcus (aka @msykes)

Pixelite

Marcus

Meta Tags Manager is a powerful yet simple, lightweight plugin which allows you to add custom meta tags to your site. Features include:
<ul>
<li>Supports meta tags including the name, property, http-equiv, charset and itemprop attributes.</li>
<li>Choose from predefined types, such as ‘name=”keyword”‘ or create your own by typing it in.</li>
<li>Add meta tags to specific posts, choose what Custom Post Types to support from our settings page.</li>
<li>Add global meta tags that will display on specific CPTs, Taxonomies, your front page or your whole site.</li>
<li>Automatically add Open Graph details to your home page.</li>
<li>Automatically add Schema and Structured Data to your home page.</li>
<li>Add Google Sitelinks and Sitelinks Search markup.</li>
<li>Easily add verification codes for services like Facebook, Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex and more (or… create your own custom meta tags!).</li>
</ul>
Use cases include:
<ul>
<li>Adding Google and Yahoo site verification tags</li>
<li>Adding additional open graph, twitter card or other social media meta info not supported by other SEO/Meta plugins</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://metatagmanager.com/gopro/?utm_source=plugin-readme&utm_medium=plugin&utm_campaign=plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Go Pro</a> for many newly added features, including:
<ul>
<li>Dynamic placeholders to include data about the page being displayed, such as page title, comment count, thumbnail URLs and more!</li>
<li>Additional contexts to add global meta tags, as well as exclusion rules for finer-grained controls.</li>
<li>Shortcode support within meta descriptions, allowing for more dynamic data insertion with plugins such as ACF</li>
<li>Unique tag detaction of Meta Tag Manager tags with hierarchical precedence, avoid creating duplicate meta tags.</li>
<li>Taxonomy support – create meta tags for individual taxonomy term pages such as a single tag or category.</li>
<li>More to come! Go Pro now and get an early-bird discount of up to 50%!</li>
</ul>

Meta Tag Manager

Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags.

Open Graphite vs Meta Tag Manager