Tag Archives: Social API

Social API settings

A section of options connected with Social API includes five groups of options:

  • options connected with sharing at Facebook
  • options connected with sharing on G+
  • options connected with sharing on Twitter
  • options connected with sharing on Pinterest
  • options allowing to switch on/off Social API on particular subpages.

Options connected with sharing are the equivalent of parameters available in online editors, used for creating buttons like:

The last group of options allows to specify where they will be displayed – thanks to Include/Exclude specified articles from Social API option, it is possible to switch off Social API completely or switch on/off this functionality only for chosen posts, subpages and categories.

We specify the list of posts, subpages and categories in three last options:

 

meetgavernwp_socialapias a sequence of ID, slug or the names of posts given, subpages or categories separated with comas, e.g.  [code]1,5,25[/code] or [code]typography,theme-settings,theme-essentials[/code]

Open Graph support

GavernWP has built – in support for Open Graph protocol. Thanks to it, each post added may have metatags specified and during publishing a post given on Facebook, there will be information specified earlier by an author of an entry displayed:

  • title
  • entry description
  • thumbnail connected with an entry

Thanks to it, an author of a post has better influence on the information displayed on social media services. It’s also worth remembering that in the case when fields connected with Open Graph will not be filled, then GavernWP will try to fill them automatically basing on the entry data.

Support for Open Graph is a great supplement for a Social API system implemented in GavernWP.