Feature: Social image upload for posts about the-seo-framework

[nateonawalk]

Similarly, the ability to set a default OG thumbnail for posts without featured images would be amazing!

[sybrew]

That would be a great idea as well indeed!

Then, that should be added in the General Settings of the "new" Social Settings metabox ... That metabox is going to be huge next patch as I'm also merging Knowledge Graph in it, so I'll need to figure out a way to improve this.

Edit: The above statement is false. I was renewing the Schema.org metabox... The feature is not going to be an issue at all 😄

[digisavvy]

Hey there,
I know this doesn't directly answer the suggestion, but this code block could help in the meantime:

/**
 * Default social images
 */
add_filter('the_seo_framework_og_image_args', function($args) {
    if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
        $thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id();
        $thumb_url_array = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumb_id, 'large', true);
        $thumb_url = $thumb_url_array[0];
        $args['image'] = home_url( "$thumb_url" );
    } else {
        $args['image'] = home_url('/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digital-marketing-la.png');
    }

    return $args;
});

If there's a post thumbnail (aka featured image) it will be used as the default og:image. If one is not present then default to an image path that I define. Make sure to update the line after the 'else' clause to reflect the image you wish to use.

[sybrew]

Hi @digisavvy,

That's already happening:
See this, and this. Which uses this to generate the URL and adjust images that are too big.

Most of which was already present in 2.0.5, which was released on June 25th, 2015; when it was still called "Autodescription" 😄.

[nateonawalk]

So the only bit that's missing is the ability to set a default :) cool cool, really looking forward to this update! 👍

[sybrew]

Enjoy: 6ca4425

@NateDotLife the image fallback uploader is planned as well for 2.8.0, stay tuned 😄

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