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[Resolved] Setting facebook sharing thumbnail for custom taxonomy archive?

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Problem: I would like to be able to specify a
custom Facebook sharing thumbnail for a custom taxonomy archive using an OG meta tag.

Solution: There's not a built-in way to do this with Toolset, so the best way to manage Facebook sharing and other OG meta tags is probably to use a 3rd-party SEO plugin.

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Last updated by Christian Cox 6 years, 8 months ago.

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I am trying to make it possible to make a featured image (og:image) function on custom taxonomy terms for Facebook sharing.

I have tried the free plugin Archive Control https://wordpress.org/plugins/archive-control/ which offers featured image function for post types and taxonomies.

While I can see the featured image option on the WordPress Tags taxonomy any custom taxonomies made with Types does not seem to work even though I set featured image to be enabled for my types custom taxonomy inside the Archive Control plugin settings. The featured image function does not show up in the edit custom taxonomy page. Do not suppose there is an easy fix to enable Archive Control plugin to work with Types taxonomies?

Another way I have thought of is to make a custom term image field for the custom taxonomy but I do not know how to tie that with making an og:image reference for custom Post type and Taxonomy archives.

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Hi, it sounds like you would like to modify the Open Graph meta tags that are included in an Archive page's source code. Types isn't set up to manage meta tags, but any good SEO plugin should be able to help. Yoast SEO, for example, gives some options for custom meta tags: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/custom-open-graph-tags/

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