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Blog Twitter card #9

Closed maelle closed 6 years ago

maelle commented 6 years ago

Make it use logo

Cf https://xvrdm.github.io/2017/10/23/socialize-your-blogdown/ h/t @hturner

Cf also #8

hturner commented 6 years ago

Examples of how twitter cards look currently,

for blog post: https://twitter.com/R_Forwards/status/960544164185346049 for event page (sub-page of edu section): https://twitter.com/visnut/status/1043279074636914688 for home page: https://twitter.com/revodavid/status/858002452485996546

maelle commented 6 years ago

Hey in the meantime I've added Twitter metadata to my and rOpenSci's websites so I've become more knowledgeable.

Does the blog use a single head.html partial?

hturner commented 6 years ago

I haven't checked - I was collecting these examples so we had a better idea of what needs to be added where. E.g. the blog posts seem to have a good description added automatically, whereas we probably need to add something to the relevant partial to get this set up on static pages. If you're happy to assign yourself to this task, that would be great! (No great time pressure on this one!)

maelle commented 6 years ago

I've set a reminder to have a look in two weeks 😺

maelle commented 6 years ago

Reg the about etc page you need to add a description in their YAML header e.g. in https://github.com/maelle/website_source/blob/master/content/about.md https://github.com/maelle/website_source/blob/master/content/edu/_index.md

https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator is very handy

maelle commented 6 years ago

and I'm thinking it might be better to use Opengraph tags rather than Twitter tags since Twitter uses both, and Facebook uses Opengraph maybe? I don't use Facebook at all.

hturner commented 6 years ago

@maelle pointed out this Twitter card validator: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and I found there is a similar thing for Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/. This showed that Opengraph would be better for Facebook and possibly other places (e.g. Slack, LinkedIn) too.

hturner commented 6 years ago

Closed by forwards/website_source@c50ae2c.