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#1065 adding a picture to a link

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Latest post by sbluege on Thursday, 16 October 2014 04:30 UTC

Dear Sven,
When posting a link to my website (album, event) on Facebook / Google+ nothing displays, just the link. How do I configure the Gallery to add an image thumbnail/a picture to the posted link? Same as it happens eg. when you're posting a link to Youtube?
It is much more attractive if there is some linked image posted than if there is just some text.
Do I necessarily need a Facebook App and Social sharing activated?
Thanks in advance.

sbluege
How do you share? Can you provide some details please?

An more important: which version do you use? With version 3.2.1 this should work find. Example link: http://www.svenbluege.de/pictures/event/2013-10_Malloarca

I share the simplest way, ie. by copying the direct link from the browser and pasting into Facebook status entry (or eg. in gmail, etc.).

I use version 3.2.0

I am aiming at something like you find attached: an image from the gallery to be displayed as link (not my logo etc. but the first image from the gallery, the one marked with a star). Is it possible?

sbluege

Update to 3.2.1 please. It should work like this. Unfortunately facebook sucks and produces random results based on the same html code. Google+ works a lot better.

Ideally it should look like in your screenshot.

Thank you.
I tried to upgrade in live upgrade, but I get an error, please see attached. If I re-install the event gallery from a package, is there a risk I will lose settings or data?

sbluege

Don't worry. Everything is fine. Just the live update is gone now. You don't have to do anything.

After the update I can only set the the main picture for the whole site (which shows always regardless which link it is directing to), but it does not reflect the contents of the particular event I am sharing although the link is behind. Can you advise how to set particular unique picture to represent each gallery of photos?
Thank you!

sbluege
Can you please try the following: Change the "Use Original Files" option in the components options (tab image) to Yes.

It seems like Facebook has issues to read the file while all other services are fine.