maplibre / maplibre/maplibre.github.io

Social media image preview

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Description

When posting links to news articles on social media, the platforms often show a post preview image. But for us this is always the same image. Would be cool if we could have a different image for each article. In the past I sometimes deleted the default image but linkedin basically does not show posts without an image... So for now I past the image manually but would be cool if we could set dynamically what goes into the header. The relevant section is probably this one:

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre.github.io/blob/ece62083ff7cea8ebef10b0b8108c9d0fde683be/layouts/partials/head.html#L10-L24

@louwers @maxammann do you know how we could do this?

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Research direction

Start in layouts/partials/head.html at lines 10–24 and inspect how the current social preview image is set. Determine how article-specific images can be supplied for social metadata while retaining a fallback image, then verify generated article pages expose the intended preview image.

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Assessment

Tech stack
html
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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