CanDIG / CanDIG/candig.github.io

Twitter cards/image unfurls don't work in PR previews

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Description

When Cloudflare does a preview on a local branch, it renders the page at a URL like https://f707160d.candig-github-io.pages.dev. Relative URLs for new images and resources in the branch will work, but absolute URLs won't.

That works for most things (e.g. new blog posts) but not for image unfurls (e.g. what you get as a preview of a page when you post the link into slack or twitter). That's because the Jekyll template creates absolute URLs. https://github.com/CanDIG/candig.github.io/blob/production/_includes/head.html#L50. We should try getting rid of that prefixing and see if (a) it breaks any existing posts and (b) if it works for new branches so we can test the unfurling ahead of time before publishing.

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Research direction

Start at _includes/head.html around line 50, where the Jekyll template creates absolute URLs for images and resources. Check the effect of removing that prefix on existing posts, then use a Cloudflare preview URL to test whether new-branch pages produce working image unfurls.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jekyll
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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