I make use of Jetpack for this blog in order to add some pretty handy functionality, cross posting to my silo accounts, commenting, and OpenGraph.

Unfortunately, I had to make a couple of tweaks in order to get Opengraph working correctly.

This info is dotted around t’internet, but as an aide-mémoire, I figured I’d consolidate here.

OpenGraph headers not showing

To start, I had to get the OpenGraph headers to show in the first place. This required me to make a minor modification to the code of the plugin, not exactly desirable, but good for the moment.

Basically, Jetpack has a list of plugins that it conflicts with, and if one of those plugins is running, then it disables certain features. Unfortunately, I was running one of these plugins.

I didn’t want to disable the plugin, but after reviewing the code, I figured I wasn’t making use of the conflicting functionality (namely Opengraph, and two sets of opengraph headers is known to cause problems), so I removed the plugin from the list.

This list is found in $conflicting_plugins, which can be found in the function check_open_graph() in the file class.jetpack.php. Comment out the appropriate line at your own risk.

Missing/default open graph image

Next, I wanted to provide a default image for situations when the I don’t have a featured image in the post. This required a slight modification to my theme’s functions.php, as described here and here.

Showing your twitter user instead of @jetpack

Finally, I wanted to use my own twitter handle (@mapkyca) for the twitter card, instead of the default @jetpack.

This was another quick addition to my functions.php, e.g.

add_filter( 'jetpack_open_graph_tags', function( $og_tags ) {
        $og_tags['twitter:site'] = '@mapkyca';
        return $og_tags;
}, 11 );

See this discussion for details.

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