Dewey's Twitter Card Helper Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

A simple plugin for adding open graph tags to WordPress sites. Focuses more on theme and plugin developers. No admin interface (yet), everything is configured via code. (I’ll write a better description when I can think of one…)

Installation

Upload the wad_twitter_cards directory to /wp-content/plugins/
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
add_post_type_support for twitter_cards to the different post types you want to enable open graph tags for
Customize the twitter card settings by using the twitter_cards filter

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I use this?

After you have installed the plugin, the plugin will automatically add open graph tags to your site’s front page. og:site_name and og:title will both be set to your site’s name, og:type will be “website”, og:url is the site’s url and og:description is the WP site description.

After you’ve enabled support for each of the post type(s), you begin to see open graph tags appear in those post type page <head> tags.

On post types that support ‘ogtags’, the plugin will add og tags for og:site_name (your blog’s title), og:title (the post title), og:url (the post permalink), og:description (the post excerpt) and og:type is automatically set to “article”. If your post has a thumbnail image, that will be set as the og:image.

Can I customize the og tags?

You can!

… you actually SHOULD. It’s recommended that you add a filter on “twitter_cards” to update the “site” property to be the proper Twitter username, otherwise your twitter card settings will use @undefined by default.

You can customize all of the different posts you’re supporting using the og_tags filter. Also, if you’re supporting multiple post types and only want to customize a particular post type, you can use the [POST_TYPE]_og_tags filter, where you can replace [POST_TYPE] with post or page (or whatever the post_type is) to customize the content of a particular post type.

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Changelog

2.0.4

fixed the issue where apostrophes aren’t always showing properly in shares

2.0.3

Small tweaks based on some feedback around custom data

2.0.2

cleaned up a problem with some data not being rendered properly

2.0.1

fixed an issue where our meta tag was not named properly
cleaned up a problem with some data not being rendered properly

2.0.0

Added a meta box to make it easier to use custom twitter card meta

1.1.0

Removed the filter from being called on the homepage, as it was causing unwanted overwrites

1.0.1

Moved array declaration to fix error notice

1.0

Initial “open” release

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