For the past few hours I've been toying around with a few things on the EMA site, and on the WP installation I have running on my home PC. Here's what I've accomplished on both servers/installations:
Edited the open-graph portion in an attempt to better associate a "default" featured image for Facebook
I discovered with HarrisonEMA that it tried to grab the first image available. Horrible.
Hopefully, I've fixed this by editing functions.opengraph.php and adding this below the "blavatar" fallback:
else if ($image == '') { $image = '***IMAGEURL***'; }
...with *IMAGEURL* being an actual image URL. It seems to be working...
...I also upped the requirement for image size from 50x50px to 150x150.
I did this, because I found the plugin below:
...with "Syndicate Out," I can have the blog automatically push/duplicate the post to alternate WP installations via xmlrpc. Sweet!
This means that I shouldn't have a delay--or much of one--when it comes to having EMA posts sent to my blog. Additionally, I can have a "back-up" saved on Wordpress.com should the EMA site go down. I had been doing something similar on my personal installation--the back-up to wordpress.com thing, that is--via an IFTTT receipe (if RSS then email Wordpress); going this route is much simpler...
Thanks to a tweet I read the other day, I read that there's been an increase of "admin" accounts being attacked.
Dang. I guess I have some work to do tonight. ow.ly/k7QqS
— Darrell Jordan (@dljordaneku) April 16, 2013
...so, pretty active day--online anyway. Next on the agenda:
...oh, and this post will also serve as a test to see if that fix I tried on the featured image works right for my personal blog... the last few that I sent picked up prior images. If it's still broken, I may just leave it for a while... I'm getting tired of writing "TEST" posts...
Tags: #randomness, #thoughts and stuff
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