I first installed Movable Type on this day, Mon NOV 24th, 2003 10:15 a.m. ET, and added the Tour Journal blog to this website.
“Movable Type is Six Apart’s powerful, customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content. Movable Type is widely recognized as the premiere choice for power users of weblogs, as well as organizations interested in nanopublishing, intranet knowledge management, and marketing or communications through weblogs…”
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve experienced being infuriated trying to debug the Facebook cache and Share button “hell” while incorporating their share functionality into websites you’re developing, and have possibly read some of the help posted online from others…
The Facebook Developers URL Linter tool is key, for starters, to troubleshoot what’s going on with the Open Graph Protocol meta tags being generated (or lack thereof) and to break Facebook’s cache… but what had really been tripping me up was not being aware of the very specific thumbnail image requirements specified in their documentation:
og:image – An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. The image must be at least 50px by 50px and have a maximum aspect ratio of 3:1. We support PNG, JPEG and GIF formats. You may include multiple og:image tags to associate multiple images with your page.
Open Graph protocol – Facebook Developers
Pay attention to those specs, and your thumbnail image display issues will be solved. Also, if you’re a WordPress user there are a handful of plugins available for generating the OG meta tags… one I especially like is Open Graph Protocol in Posts and Pages by HitReach which allows you to specify exact OG tags per post or page as well as set site-wide defaults.
I use this simple, very nice plug-in from Ciaran Gultnieks to hide the black bar at the top of the new WordPress 3.8 front-end, and to hide/show the WordPress toolbar:
I’ve been incorporating two-factor authentication wherever I can in my digital life, and mobile apps like Google Authenticator can make it a snap to implement, especially with easy QR code verification. But until now I hadn’t found a solution I liked for WordPress, having tried a number of different plug-ins, only to later uninstall. Enter Rublon, a mobile authentication app I saw reviewed (along with several other apps) on the Torque website, by contributor Jay Hoffmann. The Rublon app and its WordPress plug-in work perfectly for my purposes, easy to implement and very similar feel to the Google Authenticator process. It’s an additional security layer on top of your existing log in authentication, and with the Trusted Devices feature, you only need to set it up once in any given Web browser, and you can forget it… highly recommend.
Facebook posts with privacy set to “Public” can now also be embedded in Web pages and blog posts by anyone. An “Embed Post” option is in the arrow drop-down menu at upper right corner, viewable when logged in to Facebook. Here’s an example of an embedded post from my Facebook musician page:
I first installed WordPress on this day, Sat APR 10th, 2010 10:23 a.m. EDT, and rebuilt this website to be powered by the WordPress platform.
“WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.”
