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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 119

Fallback og:image if no images are present in an ext:news story

TYPO3 v 7.16. cs_seo 2.3.3 news 6.3.0

I have disabled cs_seo on my news detail page and ext:news is generating the correct og & twitter card meta data as expected. However, if I have a story that doesn't feature an image, no default image is present. Is it possible to set a fallback/default image to be used for News stories?

(If I enable cs_seo on the news detail page, it overrides any metadata generated by ext:news)

Thanks again,

Tom

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1374

Answers (2)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 119

Bernd - thanks for getting back to me. The "dummy image" is set, however it is not configured to be included on Detail pages (as far as I can tell).

I came across a support thread for cs_seo extension which allows you to set a fallback image.

https://github.com/clickstorm/cs_seo/issues/92

I used the following typoscript setup on my Detail page.

tx_csseo {
1 = tx_news_domain_model_news
1.fallback {
    og_image = fal_media
}
}

In the cs_seo extension I had to set the TSConfig PID to my Detail page, I also included the Page TSConfig "Extend News Records".

I then noticed that on News Detail pages I had two sets of OG metadata. One being generated by ext:News and the other by cs_seo. I removed the following partial include from my Detail Template

<f:render partial="Detail/Opengraph" arguments="{newsItem: newsItem, settings:settings}" />

I now have one set of OG tags and a fallback image in place.

Upvotes: 0

Bernd Wilke πφ
Bernd Wilke πφ

Reputation: 10790

The default templates of ext:news include the usage of a default image. You configure it in the TS constants.

You might have 'cleaned' the templates when you modified it to your version.

Upvotes: 2

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