When you publish a new post on your site, Jetpack crawls it and looks for images that can be used when sharing that post on Facebook, on Twitter, or if that post appears in the Top Posts and Pages widget in your sidebar.
Jetpack starts by looking for a Featured Image. If you didn’t define any, we will look for slideshows and galleries, and then for any images that may be attached to the post. If we don’t find any image attached to that post, we’ll look for single images you may have inserted in the post. If you’ve inserted an image that is hosted on another site, we can use it too.
However, sometimes you may not have added any image to your post. In such cases, you can add this code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file, or in a functionality plugin. This way, your readers will see a default image when sharing that post on Facebook, for example:
function jeherve_custom_image( $media, $post_id, $args ) {
if ( $media ) {
return $media;
} else {
$permalink = get_permalink( $post_id );
$url = apply_filters( 'jetpack_photon_url', 'YOUR_LOGO_IMG_URL' );
return array( array(
'type' => 'image',
'from' => 'custom_fallback',
'src' => esc_url( $url ),
'href' => $permalink,
) );
}
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_images_get_images', 'jeherve_custom_image', 10, 3 );
It’s worth noting that the fallback image has to be larger than 200 x 200px, as per Facebook requirements. If your image is smaller, Facebook will ignore it.
Automatically close comments in the Carousel view
You can use the following code to automatically close comments in the Carousel view, based on the number of days you’ve defined in Settings > Discussion:
function jpcarousel_auto_close_comments( $open, $post_id ) { $post = get_post( $post_id ); $days_old = (int) get_option( 'close_comments_days_old' ); if ( ! $days_old ) return $open; if( $post->post_type == 'attachment' && time() - strtotime( $post->post_date_gmt ) > ( $days_old * DAY_IN_SECONDS ) ) { return false; } return $open; } add_filter( 'comments_open', 'jpcarousel_auto_close_comments', 10 , 2 );