I have followed every single piece of advice I have found to try to get this to work but all of it has been to no avail. Can someone tell me why my description/thumbnail doesn't show up? Thanks. Below is my code and the link to the site:
Meta Tags:
<meta name="title" content="La Vita è Bella, because life is beautiful" /> <meta name="description" content="Drawing on Italy’s most famous export – great-tasting, healthy, colourful food – La Vita é Bella brings families together to experience mealtimes the Italian way." /> <link rel="image_src" href="http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/images/imageforfacebook.jpg" />
Actual Link:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk" target="_blank"><img src='../images/share/s-fb.png' /></a>
http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/
Thanks in advance for any help.
Unfortunately, if your browser cache is full, the thumbnails might fail to appear on Facebook. However, this problem can be easily fixed by clearing the browser cache.
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Please note that this answer doesn't work any more and is out of date. Please try the above answer.
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Got it sorted. Had to use a url that is chock full of craziness:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s= 100&p[title]=La Vita È Bella&p[url]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/teachers/resources.html&p[images][0]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/images/imageforfacebook.gif&p[summary]=Drawing on Italy’s most famous export – great-tasting, healthy, colourful food – La Vita é Bella brings families together to experience mealtimes the Italian way"><img src='../images/share/s-fb.png' /></a>
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As some extra information, I can't remember where I originally found this information but here's what the s=100 part means:
The basic approach is you are providing a link to http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100 which is the basic share page (typically this is shown in a popup).
But I tried changing the numbers and it still goes to the same place.
As for the &p
, it's just html code for &p and I think this is the array that Facebook dissects to get at the information.
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