If you’re involved with social media sites like Digg, Facebbok or Reddit, you’ve probably seen stories with images next to them. If you’ve submitted stories there, you may have seen it present you with a few image choices, sometimes the one you want is there sometimes it isn’t. Then there’s the the case where the social media site chooses the image on it’s own, and it’s a crappy image or worse yet an ad … dooming your story to failure. Did you know there’s a way to fix that problem?
Many social media sites like Digg and Facebook work with what’s called the facebook share standard, so you can tell these services which image you’d prefer they use. This tutorial deals specifically with Thesis, but again can be used on any wordpress blog, but remeber things are just easier with thesis
We need to open up custom_functions.php and add the following code: // facebook connect digg social media image
function get_social_img() {
global $post;
if ( is_single ()){
$image = “”;
$image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘thesis_post_image’, $single = true);
?>
let them know (wink wink nudge nudge). if you enjoyed this post check out some of my other thesis tutorials.
1. I’ll be releasing a free report this week, most likely on Wednesday. There’s no product launch or pitch tied to this… it’s just something I’ve wanted to do for a while, because it ties together what we’ve been talking about here for the last several years. Watch for it, because I think you’ll like it.
2. We’ve been getting a lot of mail asking when Teaching Sells is opening back up for enrollment. Never fear, the Fall semester is almost here. We’ll be accepting new members early September, with the course information process starting late August.
3. For freelance copywriters looking for more (and better) business, the Freelance “X” Factor live Q&A calls start this week, so the cut off for getting the course with the calls included is pretty much right away. More info here.
About the Author: Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and co-founder of DIY Themes, creator of the innovative Thesis Theme for WordPress. Get more from Brian on Twitter.
I haven’t posted anything about our Thesis Theme for Wordpress lately, which is criminally negligent on my part given that it’s one of the main ways that pays the bills around here.
But this time I wanted to do something a bit more than a product update.
So I was thinking… one of the big selling points of Thesis is its search optimized code and the built-in content optimization features that make SEO easy… right from the WordPress posting interface.
And yet, so many bloggers and content marketers are in the dark about the basics of search engine optimization. Some people actually seem to be scared of it, while others think it doesn’t matter.
Here’s a hint: it’s not scary and it does matter. So I want to do something to help.
That’s where SEO School comes in.
If you purchase Thesis during this promotion (Thesis demo videos here), you’ll get a free copy of Naomi Dunford’s SEO School ebook.
That’s a $39 value included at no extra cost (Naomi could easily sell it for $97, and I’ve been telling her for a year to raise the price already… it’s good stuff).
She’ll send you your free copy of SEO School, you keep the $39 in your pocket, and you’re on your way to getting more traffic from search engines. This is a limited time offer, so…
I’m a big fan of the remote desktop I use it all the time to run scripts without having to log in/out on multiple computers. Check it out for yourself at MaxiVista.com.
En esta parte podrás poder cualquier cosa sobre ti ó sobre tu sitio, una pequeña introducción ó algo que desees hacerle saber a tus lectores. elsonar.es
Moderator: Matt Van Wagner , President, Find Me Faster Speakers: Meagan Rochelle , Search Solutions Specialist, Microsoft Nicholas Ward , Product Manager, Range Online Media How many people are using Bing Cashback, Matt asks? About a quarter of the audience raises their hand. The rest are interested to find out how it might work for them.
The first big search conference of the new year, Search Marketing Expo West , is just around the bend. SMX West takes place March 2-5 in Santa Clara, California. Bruce Clay, Inc.
I’m a day late in climbing out from under the ever-piling heap called my feed reader — but hey, if Punxsutawney Phil can claw his way to the surface today, I can too. Here’s the search news from over the weekend through today, with a special focus on local and mobile news. Local Events Added to Bing Maps The Local Events application in Bing now features event listings
