"Optimize social sharing with Open Graph WordPress plugin"

About Open Graph

The Open Graph protocol allows web pages to be used with Facebook's Like Button and Graph API, as well as within Twitter posts. The Open Graph plugin inserts metadata into WordPress posts and provides a way for other plugins and themes to override or add additional Open Graph data. It doesn't directly add social plugins to your pages, but it improves how your pages look when shared using those tools.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Open Graph plugin do?

The Open Graph plugin inserts Open Graph metadata into WordPress posts and pages. This metadata allows web pages to become rich objects in a social graph, improving their appearance when shared on platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Does this plugin add social sharing buttons?

No, this plugin does not directly add social plugins like the Facebook Like Button to your pages. Its primary function is to make your pages look great when shared using those kinds of tools.

Can other plugins or themes customize the Open Graph data?

Yes, the plugin provides a simple extension mechanism. This allows other plugins and themes to override existing Open Graph data or to provide additional Open Graph information.

Changelog

Project maintained on github at pfefferle/wordpress-opengraph.

2.0.2 (Feb 25, 2025)

Add a constant to easily change the max number of images to be included in the OpenGraph meta tags.

2.0.1 (Dec 16, 2024)

Fixed a warning
Improved opengraph_max_images handling

2.0.0 (Dec 01, 2024)

complete rewrite of image handling
added support for block images
added parsing of HTML <img> tags
improved WordPress Coding Standards compliance

1.12.2 (Nov 17, 2024)

optimized readme and updated dependencies

1.12.1 (Jul 15, 2024)

fix fediverse account normalization

1.12.0 (Jul 3, 2024)

support <meta name="fediverse:creator" />

1.11.3 (Jun 4, 2024)

don’t return description for password protected posts

1.11.2 (Nov 13, 2023)

stript tags from title, site-name and description

1.11.1 (Apr 03, 2023)

fixed a typo

1.11.0 (Oct 21, 2021)

fixed attachment issue
fixed PHP 7.4 issue

1.10.0 (Apr 20, 2020)

basic video support
basic audio support

1.9.0 (Mai 14, 2019)

show only featured image if available
prefer header images over site-icon
use avatar for profile pages
fallback to description if title is empty
better twitter card handling

1.8.3 (Jan 27, 2019)

added escaping for the missing attributes

1.8.2 (Nov 21, 2018)

fixed PHP warning issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-count-parameter-must-be-an-array-or-an-object-that-implements-c/

1.8.1 (Nov 19, 2016)

change og:image to use the full size of image (props @torenord)

1.8.0 (Jan 29, 2016)

fixed article:author property
added article:modified_time
added first category as article:section

1.7.0 (Jan 18, 2016)

added “strict mode” setting
better twitter:card handling
basic twitter:creator support
WordPress coding standard

1.6 (Dec 30, 2014)

implemented get_the_archive_title and get_the_archive_description (new in WordPress 4.1)
basic twitter cards support (thanks to elroyjetson)
replace $post->post_title with get_the_title() (see #17 for details)

1.5.1 (Nov 13, 2012)

fix duplicate opengraph markup when used with jetpack plugin (for real)

1.5 (Nov 13, 2012)

include descriptions on tag and category pages
include profile metadata on author pages
fix bug with 404 pages include extra og:image values
general code cleanup (including removal of dependency on global vars)
fix duplicate opengraph markup when used with jetpack plugin

1.4 (Aug 24, 2012)

better default description
include all images that are attached to a post, so that users can choose
which to use when sharing the page. If the post has a post thumbnail, that
is still used as the primary image.

1.3 (May 21, 2012)

add ‘opengraph_prefixes’ filter for defining additional prefixes
add new basic properties, and remove some old ones. This is a breaking
change for anyone that was using the old properties, but they can always be
added using the ‘opengraph_metadata’ filter. (see f476552 for details)
updates to many default values, particularly for individual posts and pages
(thanks pfefferle)
add basic support for array values (see d987eb7)

1.2 (Feb 21, 2012)

switch to newer RDFa prefix syntax rather than XML namespaces (props
pfefferle)

1.1 (Nov 7, 2011)

fix function undefined error when theme doesn’t support post thumbnails

1.0 (Apr 24, 2010)

initial public release

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