Forum Activity for @ken-rich

I Lost my Profile Menu on Update

Ning To Jamroom


Ooops - actually my solution has a flaw. That takes away the profile menu on just the one specific forum page, but all the internal forum pages still have it.

So, I need to add a wildcard to the URL ending. Or else a statement that says when "indiegospel/forum" exists in the URL, take action.

So this code needs a wildcard ending on the URL, where XXXXX represents the wildcard ending.


One would think that would be simple. However, after many hours researching and testing, I've seen all kinds of wildcard values like * $ ^ ? and various combinations like ?* but none of them seem to work.

Does anyone have a solution?

Why Do Images Default to this Value?

Design and Skin Customization

Profile shares are working better now, even if just copying and pasting the URL, because the OG image and description are both defined and showing in view source.

The final picture that shows on Facebook is much better but still cropped somewhat (on their end) because the window is 486 by 255 and we are sending them 512 width at xxl.

I'm not sure if that's the "optimal" setting for sharing (or where to experiment with that), but it sure is an improvement with autocrop off.

Thanks!!!
updated by @ken-rich: 01/04/15 05:19:44PM

Why Do Images Default to this Value?

Design and Skin Customization

Awesome - I'll check it out and see how it works... Thanks a lot...

Why Do Images Default to this Value?

Design and Skin Customization

It's actually worse than just this particular problem of how the images are handled.

I did some experimenting and a lot of my pages are not giving the scraper any OG: image, or description.

So it defaults to whatever it can pick-up from the page - comments, stats and a piece of my logo for an OG image (see attached).

Maybe some of that could be cleared up with the metatag manager?

I can't get it to use the profile picture as the OG image in profiles, even though I entered it. Instead, some of my profiles default to what's attached. Others don't - it's like Russian Roulette, but going by the sizes of the uploaded pictures.

og:image {$profile_image} profile pages
og:description {$profile_bio} profile pages
og:image {$item_image} item detail pages

updated by @ken-rich: 01/03/15 07:08:42PM

Why Do Images Default to this Value?

Design and Skin Customization

I am trying to share my playlists and members have the ability to upload an image to represent their playlist on Facebook shares.

However, on Facebook the timeline area is a rectangle wider than it is high. A picture like the one attached would fit well if scaled.

However, the script takes whatever picture it's given, expands it to 512 square and then crops it. That is plugged into the rectangular space at Facebook and stretched to fit, making for some weird effects. Like most of the picture missing, even when you start with a square one.

How does one change the way pictures are handled after they are added to the form field?

xxlarge/crop=auto seems to be the offending value. Perhaps width="100%" would work better? Where would I go to set that?


updated by @ken-rich: 02/05/15 12:59:53AM

Meta Information on Playlist shares

Installation and Configuration

Hi Brian - it's working now.

I just remembered I had a problem with Sharethis before, not displaying the OG image properly, so I had given it one directly. Since it was an ACP mod, the update wan't "taking".

I just reset to the new version and all is well. Thanks - this was something really needed.

Meta Information on Playlist shares

Installation and Configuration

Hi Brian,

I did the update, cleared caches, even did an integrity check - but it still doesn't appear to be working.

Am I supposed to remove this from the meta.tpl now?

The only thing that I can confirm is working, is the form is making available {$item.playlist_description}. For whatever reason, it still isn't making it into the head when I look at the source here: http://indiegospel.net/indiegospel/playlist/1/top-10-songs

I tried the Facebook scraper, I tried a share through the Share this module and it gave the profile stats for a description.

Meta Information on Playlist shares

Installation and Configuration

OK - I'll check on that - thanks

Meta Information on Playlist shares

Installation and Configuration

OK cool - I'm glad it's coming out as a release because what you said was totally over my head

Meta Information on Playlist shares

Installation and Configuration

Hi Brian,

No it doesn't appear to be there in the head where I would expect it.

I can make it appear in the body if I add {$item.playlist_description} to the body, but then it still doesn't show in the scraper.