Static and Dynamic Thumbnails for Facebook
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We wanted to declare a specific version of our logo as available when sharing to Facebook from a site, but also to retain the ability to select images from the shared page. The standard meta-tag method limited us to a single thumbnail, and prevented page-specific thumbnails from appearing.
To provide both static and page-specific thumbnails, add the new image for all pages to the header area of the page template and assign to it the existing Drupal “element-invisble” class. Facebook will still load and display this "invisible" image, along with other suitable images on the page.
Modified page.tpl.php code (second line added):
<div id="header"><div class="header-inner section clearfix">
<img class="element-invisible" src="http://www.example.com/sites/default/files/public/logo-for-fb.gif">
<?php print render($page['header']); ?>
CSS class:
.element-invisible {
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
position: absolute !important;
}
Because the image doesn’t belong in the main flow of the document, we also added another class, with a rule to move it off-screen and confirm that it wouldn’t show up (left: -999px;).
After making changes, you may wish to clear Facebook's cache for a given page here:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
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