Blog on joomla5/7/2023 ![]() And for a limited time you can get the plugin at no cost with the discount code 'freeformyblog ', check that out here. The Open Graph plugin is not free, but the cost is minimal when you consider how much time it will save by automatically setting social media tags. Do note that this means you may want to add a category image too, if you want your main blog page to use a unique image. Otherwise it will use the default image selected in the BCS Open Graph plugin. If the proper resolution image is found in the article, the plugin will choose that image for the OG image and Summary Large Image. If you're not already in the habit of setting the meta description for articles in Joomla, this is a best practice for SEO too. This plugin gets the tag data from the meta description and title of the page. You can also add a default image to show in the tags, this is very useful for pages or posts that do not contain an image that is sized properly for social sharing. Once this plugin is installed you can set your Facebook admin and application IDs, and your Twitter username for the content creator and website. To Show Open Graph tags on articles and pages, we use the BCS Open Graph Tags plugin which can be downloaded from the Joomla! Extensins Directory at. If you'd like to see how your pages and posts look before you add the plugin, you can do so at: Doing so will assure that your shares on social media look great on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. That's the basic setup to add social share icons to your blog posts, now let's optimize the tags that live behind the scenes in your HTML code. For example, if you have created a 'Blog' category in the above steps, you will select all categories used in your site except Blog. In the Advance Config Tab we need to enable plugin for “Single Article” and Exclude all categories except the one on who's articles you need to show the social buttons. With this plugin we can setup Facebook Shares, Likes, and other social networking settings as you can see below. To show Social Icons we like to use the BT Social Share plugin, which can be downloaded at. These tags are an important, they will give your shares the optimal appearance on social media sites. There are two plugins that you will want to add to your Joomla site, one places social media share buttons on your posts and the other add the necessary Open Graph and Twitter Card tags to optimize shares on Facebook or Twitter. It's important to make it easy for your readers to easily share your blog posts on social media networks. You can now access the newly created menu item (page) on the front end, and you will see the article(s) that you created displayed on the page. This is important for social shares, and also for SEO. Go to the Publishing tab, and set a Meta Description in the available field. Once the category and menu items are created you can create the article(s) to show in on the new page.įor that go to Joomla Admin > Content > Articles > Add New ArticleĪfter clicking on Add New Article you see the below screen:Įnter the article Title and Content, and then select the category created in step 1 on right side drop down under Category. Select Menu Item Type = Select > Articles > Category Blog. Set the Menu Item Title = 'Blog', or whatever is desired. Joomla Admin > Menus > Main Menu > Add New Menu Item You can name your new category however you like, but the most obvious name is 'Blog'.Īfter adding the category, we need to create a Menu Item which will use the category created in the above steps to display articles in a blog layout. Joomla Admin > Content > Categories > Add New Category ![]() This will allow us to group our blog posts together on one page. In Joomla when adding a blog, we need to create a new category in the administrator. Be sure to read to the end so that you know the secrets to creating more effective social media shares by placing Open Graph and Twitter tags in your posts, automatically! The entire process of adding a blog is documented below with step-by-step instructions. Do you want to add a blog to your Joomla! website? Our development team is often tasked with this job and put together this handy guide.
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