How can I use Large Image Twitter Cards for WordPress.com Blog Post?
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I have validated my blog so a twitter “summary card” is displayed when I share a blog post on twitter. I would like to have them instead displayed using the “Large Image” summary card, but I can’t figure out what I need to do to make this happen. I am using a wordpress.com blog so I can’t install and SEO plugin (which is what all the directions I find online seem to address). Is there a tip or trick to get the Large image Summary Card to work for my posts? Thanks!
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Thanks,
Clarify my wordpress.com custom domain is whitelisted for Twitter Cards. I did this by using the tool: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator.
So when I write a new post on wordpress.com and publish it a tweet does autimatically go out on my tiwtter account with a link to the blog post and a summary card which contains a small thumbnail image.
I’m just trying to figure out what I need to do in order to get it to be a Large Image Summary Card instead of just the summary card I already have. Most of the info I have read in the forums and online about switching between card types is with regards to blogs that allow SEO Yoast Plugin to handle this, but I can not use that on my site, so I’m not sure what I can do.
I hope that makes sense. Thanks for the help!
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Hi triangleexplorer,
My apologies, but we currently don’t allow customization of the meta-data required for those settings in Twitter cards. Our WordPress.com SEO system sets the twitter card tags automatically with every new post or page you create.
-Alex G.
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Alex,
Thanks for the response. No worries. As I researched this more I began to suspect I didn’t have the option of changing the card, but having confirmation and knowing that I wasn’t missing something is a great help to me and I appreciate it!
Thank you,
-TriangleExplorer
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I have the same issue.
Can’t figure out why validation brings up a perfect card with large image, but a tweet – shared from the post or pasted url on twitter – does not!
My blog is http://theurgetowander.com/
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Hi Alex,
Here it is: https://twitter.com/TheUrgeToWander/status/558735113295392768
I just figured the image does not show up by default until one expands the tweet. defies the purpose if readers don’t bother to do it.
Is it possible to change the current ‘Summary with Large Image’ card to an Image card?
Many thanks.
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Hi Madhu,
When the full card is shown depends on the environment in which a tweet is being read. In the standard Twitter apps and twitter.com this would be when a reader expands the tweet. Though the various third-party Twitter clients offer other settings on how feeds can be viewed. In the link you’ve given me the card is created correctly:
Is it possible to change the current ‘Summary with Large Image’ card to an Image card?
Like in the original poster’s situation, we currently don’t allow customization of the meta-data required for those settings in Twitter cards. The cards currently being created are the only ones possible on WordPress.com.
-Alex G.
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