HD-OG plugin for Joomla 2.5
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Add Open Graph protocol metadata to your Joomla site to get recognised on Facebook's social search engine.
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what is this? | what's the point? | what to do after installing? | testing the metadata
What is this?
HD-OG is a plugin that embeds Open Graph metadata into your web pages. This is the markup used by Facebook to map and categorise websites into it's own social search engine. The metadata includes standard information (such as page title, type, URL, description & site name) as well as location information (latitude, longitude, address, region and country) and contact details (email address, telephone number & fax number).
What's the point?
Google may dominate the search engine scene and attract more traffic than any other site but Facebook comes a close second. The Open Graph Protocol is an attempt to link Facebook with the rest of the web, creating Facebook’s own extensive and highly interactive version of a search engine.
This plugin ensures that the correct data is displayed when someone tries to share a link to your site on Facebook. The graph "type" ensures that your site is categorized in the correct section (eg. website, blog, product, food, sport, news) and it also includes metadata to mark up your location and contact details. More information on the Open Graph Protocol is available here.
What to do after installing?
Install the zip file via the administration install manager as per any other module. Once it has installed go to the plugin manager, select HD-OG and enable the plugin.
Under the Basic parameter settings, select a "type" from the drop down lost that your website primarily falls under and an "image" than can be used as a thumbnail image to represent the site overall (the image is pulled from your main "images" folder).
Under the Location parameter settings select "Yes" if you wish to enable this feature. Enter the latitude and longitude of your location, followed by the Street Address, Locality, Region, Postal Code and Country.
Under the Contact Details parameter settings select "Yes" if you wish to enable this feature. Enter your email address, telephone number and fax number.
You only need to enable the Admin parameter field if you wish to test your site using the Facebook URL linter, it is not required for anything other than admin testing.
The id number required is the nine digit id number displayed in the URL of your Facebook's profile page.
How do I test the Metadata?
Use the Facebook URL linter to test the validity of the metadata.