@miriamrobern I have turned all the knobs on WordPress. But it keeps serving up the default blank "og:image" meta property. Dafuq? 🤷♀️😠
I'm looking at sites through https://debug.iframely.com/ and sites that get preview images in their cards seem to be serving up the exact same data as mine is.
@miriamrobern Soooo... how are you getting the image in the first place? Is it just an image preview attached to your post?
What I want is my profile picture and the description text. That's all I need.
@lisamelton Both Featured Image and Icon are being served up in Iframely's tab, and only the Featured Image in oEmbed, Twitter, and OpenGraph tabs... but neither display.
Not even sure which set of data either MastoWeb or Ivory are even looking at. 🤪
Ah ha! A big-ass Featured Image will come through as a preview image. Me trying to use smaller images, apparently, screwed me.
Okay, as best I can tell, MastoWeb uses OpenGraph information to construct their preview cards, which does include the post's Featured Image (as OpenGraph thumbnail) as long as it's big (1920x1920 works, 300x300 does not).
Ivory, by contrast, either sources OpenGraph and then doesn't use half of it or uses Twitter Card data. (It doesn't display website name.) It, too, wants a BIG Thumbnail or else it will post no preview card whatsoever.
@miriamrobern Well, that's... fucking annoying. 🤨
I'm not using a featured image at all on my posts, but I see other WordPress sites that don't either and they preview just fine. So, I have no idea what's going on! 🤔🤷♀️😠
@lisamelton The "big" threshold for MastoWeb seems to be pixels and not file size. I have a post with a 1000x563 jpg (710kb) thumbnail that did not get included, and a post with a 1000x772 (228kb) thumbnail that did. So the threshold is somewhere between those two sizes, I guess?
@miriamrobern That's one Hell of a heuristic! 😂
@lisamelton Workin with the data I've got! ;)
@miriamrobern Well, that's what ya gotta do amidst such madness. 😂
@lisamelton Yeah, confirmed: I sized up the Featured Image on a post from Monday that didn't get a preview, and now it does have a preview.
@miriamrobern That is soooo... weird and almost arbitrary. 🤦♀️
@lisamelton IME everything about preview cards is totally arbitrary.
@lisamelton They may be using some plugin that pushes the site icon as a thumbnail for all posts. There's a couple OpenGraph plugins that do that that I haven't dug into yet.
@miriamrobern Oh, really? Daaayuuum! Then I really need that plugin. Lemme know if you ever stumbled across one of those.
@miriamrobern Woo hoo! 🎉 Thanks! 💖