Description

Open Graphite gives you control over how your WordPress content appears when shared on social media.

When someone shares one of your pages on platforms like Facebook, the platform automatically selects text and images from the page to generate a preview. The results are often less than ideal, with irrelevant images, poorly formatted text and descriptions that are cut off mid-sentence. This can make your content less appealing and reduce engagement.

Open Graphite solves this by letting you customise the image, title, description and object type displayed when any of your pages are shared on social media. You can create compelling, purpose-built previews without changing or compromising your original page content.

Features

Set the homepage title, description, image and object type
Customise the Open Graph title, description, image and object type of any post, page or custom post type
Automatically ask Facebook to refresh its cache when you publish or update content (requires a Facebook App ID and App Secret)
X (Twitter) username and card type
Pinterest options (allow, disable rich pins, or deny saving)
Enhanced Slack sharing (author name and reading time)
Avoid Open Graph conflicts with Yoast SEO and Jetpack
Optional image alt, updated time, article dates, author URL and locale tags
Choose which post types and user roles can use the Open Graphite metabox
Enable excerpts for pages
Homepage previews for Facebook, LinkedIn and X
Dynamic testing links to the Facebook Debugger, LinkedIn Post Inspector and other testing tools

Open Graphite Pro

Open Graphite Pro adds:

Automatic defaults for titles, descriptions, featured images and object types, plus character limits
Social previews for individual posts and pages
Automatic cropped 1200 x 630 Facebook-ready image size, with an “Open Graph Sizes” tab in the Media Library
WooCommerce product and product category support
Open Graph quality indicators admin column
Priority support

How to use

For the homepage…

Go to Settings > Open Graphite
Set your homepage image, title, description and object type
Choose which post types to enable
Save your settings

For posts and pages…

Create a new post or page (or edit an existing one)
Scroll down to the Open Graphite metabox
Enter your desired title, description, image and object type

External services

This plugin can connect to the Facebook Graph API to ask Facebook to refresh its cached copy of your page, so shared links show your latest title, description and image.

This only happens when you have entered a Facebook App ID and App Secret in Settings > Open Graphite > Facebook, and only when a published post is saved. The URL of the post and an app access token made from your App ID and App Secret are sent to https://graph.facebook.com/.

This service is provided by Meta Platforms, Inc.: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Platform Terms.

Screenshots

Installation

1) Go to ‘Add New’ plugins in WordPress admin 2) Search for ‘Open Graphite’ 3) Click ‘Install Now’ and wait for it to finish installing 4) Click ‘Activate’

FAQ

Can I customise how each page or post is previewed when shared on social media?

Yes. Specify the title, description, image and object type manually on each page or post in the Open Graphite metabox.

There appears to be duplicate sets of open graph tags

Any other plugin that inserts Open Graph tags into your website may conflict with Open Graphite. If Yoast SEO or Jetpack is active, Open Graphite can turn off their Open Graph output for you (Settings > Open Graphite).

To test for other conflicts, view the source code of your page and search for og:. Open Graphite’s tags are output between its own Open Graphite Start and Open Graphite End HTML comments.

Facebook isn’t showing the correct information when I share my page or post

Facebook caches the Open Graph data of a page that has previously been shared. There are a couple of solutions.

1) Enter a Facebook App ID and App Secret in the plugin settings. Open Graphite will then ask Facebook to refresh its cache every time you publish or update a post, or…

2) Use the official Facebook Debugger, paste in the URL of your page or post and hit the Debug button, then hit Scrape Again.

Do I need a Facebook App ID?

No. But you will need one (and an App Secret) if you want Open Graphite to refresh Facebook’s cache automatically.

Why can’t I see the Open Graphite metabox?

Make sure the post type is enabled in Settings > Open Graphite > Post Types. If you are not an administrator, an administrator will need to allow your role under Permissions.

Will my current settings be inherited if I upgrade to Pro?

Yes. If you upgrade to Pro all your current configurations will be preserved. Once Pro is active, the free plugin pauses itself and can be deleted.

Where can I get support for this plugin?

Leave a message at the plugin support page.

Reviews

dandr69 ఆగస్ట్ 10, 2020 3 replies

The previous version still works. This is just useless

Biz-Woman ఏప్రిల్ 25, 2020 1 reply

Love it works perfectly

Matt Woods ఫిబ్రవరి 12, 2020

Thanks Rocket Apps, for creating this plugin

TKphotography నవంబర్ 4, 2019 1 reply

Thank you for this plugin. I installed and set it up in just a couple of minutes. Had to check the Help file because the first time it didn't work. I found the answer to my problem easily. I just had to scrape my website through facebook debugger and voila it worked!

marco t సెప్టెంబర్ 18, 2019 1 reply

Been using it for months now, and it works as in the description.

polanve ఆగస్ట్ 4, 2019

I never had a problem with Facebook Fixer. Open Graph just doesn't work. Bring back Facebook Fixer!

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Contributors & Developers

“Open Graphite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Rocket Apps

“Open Graphite” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Open Graphite” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.0.0

New: Redesigned settings interface.
New: Facebook App Secret support for automatic cache refreshes (replaces the Facebook Access Token setting).
New: Pinterest options, enhanced Slack sharing and additional Open Graph options.
New: Yoast SEO Open Graph conflict avoidance.
New: Live title and description character counts in the metabox.
Moved: Settings are now under Settings > Open Graphite.
Removed: Theme output priority setting.
Removed: Deprecated iFramely external debugging checker URL.
Tested with WordPress 7.1.

1.7.1

Fix: PHP warning.

1.7.0

New setting: Specify which roles can access the Open Graphite interface.
Fix: Issue where meta box had transparent background.
Help: Updated help topics.
Tweak: Settings interface.

1.6.1

Fixed reported security issue with the help page.

1.6.0

General maintenance.

1.5.1

Fixed a couple of stray PHP warnings.

1.5.0

A few minor improvements.

1.4.3

Fixed PHP warnings.
Minor UX tweak.

1.4.2

Updated broken external links.

1.4.1

A few minor, non critical edits.

1.4.0

Admin UI tweaks.

1.3.3

Removed links to opengraphcheck.com (no longer exists).
Fixed function name error that occurred when Open Graphite Pro is activated.
Admin UI tweaks.

1.3.2

Fixed missing translation strings.
Fixed PHP error.
Replaced missing load_plugin_textdomain() function.
Minor admin UI tweaks.

1.3.1

Updated help topics with most relevant information and correct external links.
Minor admin UI tweak.

1.3

New option to integrate with Facebook API to force immediate Open Graph data updates when creating or editing.

1.2

Added Linkedin Post Inspector, iFramely and Open Graph Check debugging links.
Fixed broken Facebook and Twitter dubugging link URLs.
Removed colour from admin icon.
Language file tweaks.

1.1

Minor UI and language consistency tweaks.

1.0.10

Fixed issue where Jetpack conflict option was not being honoured.

1.0.9

Fixed issue where Woocommerce shop page was using product open graph data.
Removed Woocommerce post types from enabled post types list.

1.0.8

Added locale to open graph meta.

1.0.7

Added missing text domain function.

1.0.6

Added option to avoid Jetpack conflict.

1.0.5

Added troubleshooting option to potentially help solve issues with some themes.
Fixed issue where titles with quotes would not output.

1.0.4

Changed twitter image markup to twitter:image.

1.0.3

Removed required attribute from object type selector.
Moved position in nav.

1.0.2

Added resource links.

1.0.1

Minor presentation tweaks.

Doesnt work

Open Graphite

The Plugin works

The Plugin works and does what it is supposed to do perfectly

It does its job

Facebook Fixer was better