NextGEN Facebook

Complete Meta Tags for Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter & More

Plugin Name	NextGEN Facebook
Summary	Accurate meta tags for awesome looking shares on Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, etc - no matter how URLs are shared or re-shared!
Stable Version	8.45.4
Requires At Least	WordPress 3.7
Tested Up To	WordPress 4.8
Contributors	jsmoriss
License	GPLv3
Tags / Keywords	facebook, sharing buttons, social share, open graph, twitter, pinterest, google, linkedin, youtube, nextgen gallery, bbpress, buddypress

Description

NextGEN Facebook uses your existing content to create meta tags + Schema markup — there's no need to manually enter / configure any additional settings or values, but if you want to, you can customize just about anything and everything. ;-)

NextGEN Facebook creates complete and accurate meta tags + Schema markup — including hashtags, video seo, e-commerce products, author profile / authorship, co-authors, publisher information, ratings, event details, recipe information, and much more — all from your existing content.

NextGEN Facebook offers special optimization features for Pinterest — providing an image for the Pin It button, excluding non-relevant images, and preventing conflicts between incompatible Pinterest and Facebook meta tag values.

NextGEN Facebook includes advanced quality control features and options — checking minimum / maximum image dimensions and aspect ratios, verifying the webpage for duplicate meta tags, showing notices for missing and required images, along with theme header template validation.

NextGEN Facebook can enhance and integrate with your favorite SEO plugin! — NextGEN Facebook specializes in providing all the meta tags + Schema markup social sites and search engines need, and you can still continue to use your favorite SEO content / keyword analysis tools!

Don't need the included social share buttons?

The WPSSO plugin is a fork / child of NextGEN Facebook — they have the same author, the same solid core features and code-base, but WPSSO is distributed without the social share buttons and their related features. Additional Free extension plugins are also available for WPSSO, including two different types of sharing button extensions:

WPSSO Mobile App Meta

WPSSO Organization Markup

WPSSO Place / Location and Local Business Meta

WPSSO Ratings and Reviews

WPSSO Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons

WPSSO Schema JSON-LD Markup

WPSSO Social Sharing Buttons

WPSSO Strip Schema Microdata

WPSSO Tweet a Quote

WPSSO User Locale Selector

Quick List of Features

NextGEN Facebook Free / Standard Features

Adds Open Graph meta tags for Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc.
Adds Pinterest Rich Pin meta tags + Structured Data Schema markup for Google.
Adds author (Person), publisher (Organization), and WebSite markup for Google Search and Knowledge Graph, including markup for the Google Sitelinks Searchbox.
Adds Weibo meta tags for article creation and update dates.
Adds Twitter Card meta tags:
- Summary Card with Large Image
- Summary Card
- Player Card is available in the Pro version (requires video discovery modules, provided with the Pro version).
Customizable image dimensions for Facebook / Open Graph, Google / Schema / Pinterest and all Twitter Card types.
Support for Automattic's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) plugin.
Support for featured, attached, gallery shortcode, and/or image HTML tags in content.
Optional fallback to a default image and video for index and search webpages.
Configurable title and description lengths (Open Graph, Twitter Card, SEO).
Configurable title separator character (hyphen by default).
Contextual help for every plugin option and comprehensive online documentation.
Configurable website / business social accounts for Schema markup:
- Facebook Business Page URL
- Google+ Business Page URL
- Instagram Business URL
- LinkedIn Company Page URL
- Myspace Business Page URL
- Pinterest Company Page URL
- SoundCloud Business URL
- Tumblr Business Page URL
- Twitter Business @username
- YouTube Business Channel URL
User profile contact fields for Open Graph, Twitter Card, and Schema markup:
- Facebook URL
- Google+ URL
- Instagram URL
- LinkedIn URL
- Myspace URL
- Pinterest URL
- Skype Username
- Tumblr URL
- Twitter @username
- YouTube Channel URL
Include / exclude individual social share button based on the viewing device (desktop and/or mobile).
Social share buttons for the content, excerpt, in a widget, as a shortcode, floating sidebar, and/or PHP function:
- Buffer
- Email
- Facebook
- Google+
- LinkedIn
- ManageWP
- Pinterest
- Reddit
- StumbleUpon
- Tumblr
- Twitter
- WhatsApp (for Mobile Devices)

Download the Free version from GitHub or WordPress.org.

Quick List of Features (Continued)

NextGEN Facebook Pro / Additional Features

Includes a Social Settings metabox for post, page, custom post type, user profile, and term / taxonomy (category and tag) editing pages — the Social Settings metbox allows you to customize the article topic, the shared title, the Open Graph / Facebook / Rich Pin, Google Search, and Twitter Card descriptions, along with the shared image and/or video.
Fully renders content (including shortcodes) for accurate description texts.
Support for embedded videos in content text (iframe and object HTML markup).
Additional Facebook / Open Graph / Rich Pin meta tags for videos and e-commerce products.
Twitter Player Card meta tags for embedded videos from Facebook, Slideshare, Vimeo, Wistia, and/or YouTube.
Include or exclude individual Google / SEO, Open Graph, Twitter Card, and Schema meta tags in the webpage head section.
Validation of minimum / maximum image dimensions and aspect ratios.
Configurable user profile contact field names and labels.
Optional URL shortening with Bitly, Google, Ow.ly, TinyURL, or YOURLS.
Dynamic button language switching based on the current WordPress locale.
A stylesheets editor for each social share button locations (content, excerpt, shortcode, widget, etc.).
Caching of share button images and JavaScript, maximizing performance on VPS and dedicated hardware hosting platforms.
Selection of preset button options by location (content, excerpt, shortcode, widget, etc.).
Ability to include / exclude social share buttons by post type.
Integrates with 3rd party plugins and services for additional image, video, e-commerce product details, SEO settings, etc. The following modules are included with the Pro version, and are automatically loaded if/when the supported plugins and/or services are required.
- Integration with 3rd Party Plugins
  - All in One SEO Pack
  - bbPress
  - BuddyPress (including Group Forum Topics)
  - Co-Authors Plus (including Guest Authors)
  - Easy Digital Downloads
  - Gravity Forms + GravityView
  - HeadSpace2 SEO
  - MarketPress - WordPress eCommerce
  - NextGEN Gallery
  - Polylang
  - rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
  - The Events Calendar
  - The SEO Framework
  - WooCommerce (version 1, 2, and 3)
  - WordPress REST API (version 2)
  - WP eCommerce
  - Yoast SEO (aka WordPress SEO)
  - Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce
- Integration with Service APIs
  - Bitly
  - Facebook Embedded Videos
  - Google URL Shortener
  - Gravatar (Author Image)
  - Ow.ly
  - Slideshare Presentations
  - TinyURL
  - Vimeo Videos
  - Wistia Videos
  - Your Own URL Shortener (YOURLS)
  - YouTube Videos and Playlists

Purchase the Pro version (includes a No Risk 30 Day Refund Policy).

Social Sharing Buttons

NextGEN Facebook comes with several social share buttons, that you can optionally include on post / page editing pages, above / below your content or excerpt, bbPress single pages, BuddyPress activity entries, CSS sidebar, widget, shortcode, and even call a function from your theme template(s). Each of the following social share buttons can be enabled, configured, and styled individually:

Email
Buffer
Facebook (Like, Send, and Share)
Google+
LinkedIn
ManageWP
Pinterest
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Tumblr (Links, Quotes, Images, Videos)
Twitter
WhatsApp (for Mobile Devices)

The Facebook, Google+ and Twitter social share buttons support multiple languages. A default language can be chosen in the NextGEN Facebook settings, and the Pro version switches the social share button language with the webpage language / WordPress locale. NextGEN Facebook can also include hashtags from WordPress and NextGEN Gallery tag names in the Facebook / Open Graph / Pinterest Rich Pin descriptions, Tweet text, and other social captions.

Social Profiles for Google Search

NextGEN Facebook includes support for author (Person) and publisher (Organization) social profiles, publisher (Organization) logo, and WebSite site name in Schema JSON-LD format for Google Search and their Knowledge Graph.

User Profile Social Contacts

NextGEN Facebook Pro allows you to customize the field names, label, and add / remove the following contacts on user profile pages and Co-Authors Plus guest author profiles:

AIM
Facebook URL
Google Talk
Google+ URL
Instagram URL
LinkedIn URL
Myspace URL
Pinterest URL
Skype Username
Tumblr URL
Twitter @username
Yahoo IM
YouTube Channel URL

Complete Social Meta Tags

NextGEN Facebook adds Facebook / Open Graph, Pinterest Rich Pins, Twitter Cards, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) meta tags to the head section of webpages. These meta tags are used by Google Search and all social websites to describe and display your content correctly (title, description, hashtags, images, videos, e-commerce product details, author profile / authorship, publisher, etc.). NextGEN Facebook uses existing content to generate meta tags + Schema markup — there's no need to manually enter / configure any additional settings or values.

3rd Party Integration (Pro version)

Images and Videos

NextGEN Facebook detects and uses all images - associated or included in your content - including the WordPress image gallery and NextGEN Gallery shortcodes. WordPress Media Library images (and NextGEN Gallery in the Pro version) are resized according to their intended consumer (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc). The Pro version detects embedded videos from Facebook, Slideshare, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube (including preview image, video title, and video description). NextGEN Facebook (Pro version) also includes support for NextGEN Gallery albums, galleries and images (shortcodes, image tags, album / gallery preview images, etc.).

Enhanced SEO

NextGEN Facebook Pro integrates with All in One SEO Pack, HeadSpace2 SEO, The SEO Framework, and Yoast SEO (aka WordPress SEO) — making sure your custom SEO settings are reflected in the Open Graph, Rich Pin, Schema Structured Data, and Twitter Card meta tags.

eCommerce Products

NextGEN Facebook Pro also supports Easy Digital Downloads, MarketPress - WordPress eCommerce, WooCommerce, and WP e-Commerce product pages, creating appropriate meta tags for [Facebook Products](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/payments/product/, and Pinterest Rich Pins, including variations and additional / custom images.

Forums and Social

NextGEN Facebook Pro supports bbPress, BuddyPress (see the BuddyPress Integration Notes), and rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress, making sure your meta tags reflect the page content, including appropriate titles, descriptions, images, author information, etc. Social share buttons can also be added to bbPress single template pages and BuddyPress activities.

Proven Performance

NextGEN Facebook is fast and coded for performance, making full use of all available caching techniques (persistent / non-persistent object and disk caching). NextGEN Facebook loads only the library files and object classes it needs, keeping it small, fast, and yet still able to support a wide range of 3rd party integration features. NextGEN Facebook requires PHP v5.3 or better, and is fully compatible with PHP v7.

Professional Support

NextGEN Facebook support and development is on-going. You can review the FAQ and Notes pages for additional setup information. If you have any suggestions or comments, post them to the WordPress support forum or the Pro version support website.

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