This plugin adds a meta tag to any blog posts & pages that have a featured image.
It helps ensure social sites such as FaceBook use a relevant image when sharing your content, particularly if you have a share button on your posts – this plugin ensures a relevant thumbnail is displayed next to the title and description.
Many sites that allow sharing of content are using meta tags from your pages to show relevant snippets – the meta tags often used are:
- title
- description
- image_src
Your posts and pages in WordPress will already have a title tag. You will need to ensure you have a description tag (see this blog post) and this plugin looks after image_src.
You will need to be using a theme with Post Thumbnail Image support, if you set a post thumbnail / featured image an image_src mata tag will be added which will signify to social sites that this is the image to use as a thumbnail.
To use the plugin simply upload and activate, when you set a post thumbnail / featured image the plugin will automatically add the meta tag.
Thanks as always to John Blackbourn for making my idea a reality.
