Social Plugin Facebook Share Desription

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Hi,

is it possible to change the Facebook Share Description, it retrives the product description, iwould like it to retrive the Meta Description in the Product.

Thank you

I Have no plan to update, so can you tell me where i can do the changes in the plugin please.

Thank you

Hi,

So you have to edit the file "plugins/system/hikashopsocial/hikashopsocial.php" in the function "_addFacebookButton()" replace:

$this->meta['property="og:description"'] = '<meta property="og:description" content="'.htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($element->description), ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8').'"/> ';

$this->meta['property="og:description"'] = '<meta property="og:description" content="'.htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($element->product_meta_description), ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8').'"/> ';

Hi,
Thank you for the info.
i did what written before but no luck, everytime i press the share button it keeps retrieving the product description.

thank you

i have attached the file so you can see if i have done it correctly.

thank you

Hi,

My bad, wrong modification, please revert back the code to:

$this->meta['property="og:description"'] = '<meta property="og:description" content="'.htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($element->description), ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8').'"/> ';

$ret->description = $element->product_description;

$ret->description = $element->product_meta_description;

Hi,

i have done the changes and i cannot see the Meta description.

Hi,

The previous code must work, but as I remember Facebook has a kind of cache, so the changes may take time to appear correctly. I will have a deeper look at the Facebook API.

Hi,

the changes still haven't been done.

thank you

Hi,

So if the changes has no effect, please try to disable the plugin and see if you still have the meta tag in the page content.
If it is, so it come from another plugin/component, that don't come from HikaShop.

Hi,

I did what you written but no luck, I noticed in the plugin there are 2 hikashop social network plug, I enabled the system but nothing happens, I disable the content plugin and the social network goes away. I have attached an image so you can see.

thank you

Hi,

Please disable the content plugin, and enable the system one with the indicated code changes.