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How to add og:title and og:description meta tags for Facebook on BuddyPress.

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  • Venutius
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    @venutius


    liutauras2
    Participant

    @liutauras2

    Does this allow to add og:title and og:description meta tags? @venutius


    liutauras2
    Participant

    @liutauras2

    bump


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    Why dn’t you try it and see, it’s the only og plugin I know for BP, so I would have thought it would, or if it didn’t you should ask the author to add the feature.


    liutauras2
    Participant

    @liutauras2

    Hello,

    The plugin only adds the og:image meta tag, it does not work for the description, and title.

    Anyone know any more possible solutions?

    Regards,
    Liutauras V.
    ExplosiveBeast Team


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    Seems like the plugin is abandoned too, which is a shame, it’s not been out that long. One option would be to for this plugin and add the features yourself I suppose?


    liutauras2
    Participant

    @liutauras2

    @venutius I have been trying, but could not find where to add the meta tag. I can’t read the code. Could you help me with that? 🙂


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    I don’t think it would be a quick fix; 2000+ lines of code in the index alone, but I did notice it seems to have support for the description.


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    og:Title is in there too.


    Jonas
    Participant

    @jonaskjodt

    There’s different ways of solving it, you can look to this old post for some pointers.

    or you could do something like this

    <?php
    function opengraph_tags() {
        // defaults
        $title = get_bloginfo('title');
        $excerpt = get_bloginfo('description');
    
        if( bp_current_component() ) {
            global $post;
            setup_postdata( $post);
            $title = get_the_title();
            $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
            if ($excerpt) {
                $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
                $excerpt = str_replace("", "'", $excerpt);
            }
        } ?>
            
        <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"/> <!-- general meta tag -->
        <meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo $title; ?>"/> <!-- facebook meta tag -->
        <meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"/> <!-- facebook meta tag -->
        <meta name="twitter:title" content="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <!-- twitter meta tag -->
        <meta name="twitter:description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"> <!-- twitter meta tag -->
    
    <?php }
    add_action('wp_head', 'opengraph_tags', 5);

    You’d then be able to write the description of the buddypress page in the excerpt input while editing whatever Buddypress page. This only solves the main pages though.

    If you’d like to go further for group, member and activity SEO you’d have to follow it up with some more code.


    liutauras2
    Participant

    @liutauras2

    Hey @jonaskjodt,

    Thank you very much for your response.

    I have tried your code inserting into functions.php of my child theme and it did not work. I Don’t mean to sound like someone who wants everyone else does the job for him, but I really tried, and like I have said I can’t read the code, I have a really limited budget so I try to do as much work as I can my self. Unfortunately, I tried your code a couple times and I couldn’t get it to work, If there any more solutions, or a way of troubleshooting it?

    Thank you again for helping me 🙂

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