Controlling what goes to Facebook

**GK User** Tue May 07, 2013 1:58 am

I know I'm missing something but how do I control what is being displayed on Facebook? I posted my site's URL to Facebook and Facebook came back with a preview. I cannot find the content that is being displayed! Can someone point me in the right direction?

**GK User** Tue May 07, 2013 8:16 am

You can use Open Graph. In our rest_files package you can find Open Graph plugin which adds additional tab in article edit screen. Then you can specify and other data for OG. In addition, open graph plugin allows you to specify all this parameters for other pages that K2 items or Joomla! articles.

**GK User** Fri May 10, 2013 2:19 am

Not what I mean. I am using the Coffee template. I loaded the Quickstart package and got the site up and running. When I posed the URL on Facebook, it brought over a default screen (it had the Google Chrome Frame logo) I don't have the plugin installed yet Facebook was able to obtain a a formatted screen from the site. Where is that all defined?

**GK User** Fri May 10, 2013 11:59 am

The only way to control what goes to facebook is use Open Graph https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ in other case facebook get content automatically and probably only facebook developers can tell you what will be displayed because as I can see the way how it works in nowhere described.

**GK User** Fri May 10, 2013 12:20 pm

Sorry for being difficult here but the template has a Facebook layout which is being invoked. Somehow Joomla is providing content through that template but I can't find out where. Generically, the layout uses three sections: header, message and content. How does the framework connect content to those positions? When I look at module positions, none of these appear. My menus do not have this content defined. The content being displayed is really just sample data, which I have unpublished. Its obviously coming from my site but how is the site providing it? Where is it coming from?

**GK User** Mon May 13, 2013 7:56 am

If you are talking about this area :

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <jdoc:include type="head" /> </head> <body> <jdoc:include type="message" /> <jdoc:include type="component" /> </body> </html>

this are regular Joomla! JDoc statements, please look here for more details >> http://docs.joomla.org/Jdoc_statements

**GK User** Mon May 13, 2013 11:38 am

I realize that but what I am asking is what is the template sending? <jdoc:include type="component" /> sends the component of the page being viewed, what page is being viewed is my question? It is obviously selecting something but what page is being used? I have turned off all of the Featured content but something is still being sent and I need to control it, where is the control for that information?

**GK User** Wed May 15, 2013 8:41 am

What is displayed in component part is described at mentioned documentation :

This element should only appear once in the <body> element of the Template to render the main content of the page with respect to the current page being viewed.

If you want to control this you probably need to modify Joomla! core file.