Simple Open Graphs – Social Sharing, Open Graph, Twitter Cards & Rich Previews
Simple Open Graphs – Social Sharing, Open Graph, Twitter Cards & Rich Previews

Simple Open Graphs – Social Sharing, Open Graph, Twitter Cards & Rich Previews

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The per-post Social Preview metabox with live Facebook & Twitter/X cards.

The per-post Social Preview metabox with live Facebook & Twitter/X cards.

Simple Open Graphs is a feather-light social metadata plugin that makes every link to your site look great on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Pinterest, Telegram, and beyond, without the bloat of a full SEO suite.

Less than 100KB on the front end. Zero database tables. Zero settings required to get started.

Why Simple Open Graphs?

  • Lightweight. No frontend JavaScript. No CSS. Just clean <meta> tags.
  • 🎨 Live previews of how your post will look on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter/X – right inside the post editor.
  • 🔁 Plays nice with SEO plugins. Auto-detects Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, Slim SEO, The SEO Framework – and automatically yields to them on the front end so you never get duplicate tags.
  • 📥 One-click importer from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework.
  • 🧰 Developer friendly. Filters, REST endpoints, WP-CLI commands, PSR-4 autoloader, namespaced OOP.

Features

Open Graph (Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Telegram)

  • og:title, og:description, og:image, og:image:alt, og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image:type, og:image:secure_url
  • og:url, og:type, og:locale, og:site_name, og:updated_time
  • article:published_time, article:modified_time, article:author, article:section, article:tag
  • Facebook App ID + Admins
  • WooCommerce product:price:amount, product:price:currency, product:availability, product:retailer_item_id

Twitter/X Cards

  • twitter:card (summary, summary_large_image, app, player)
  • twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:image:alt
  • twitter:site, twitter:creator
  • Per-author handle override from the WordPress user profile

Site verification (one-tag-each)

  • Facebook domain verification
  • Pinterest verification (rich pins)
  • Google Search Console
  • Bing Webmaster Tools

Automation

  • Featured image fallback first content image site default safety fallback
  • Auto-generated excerpts/descriptions trimmed to platform-safe lengths
  • Auto locale detection
  • Auto title separator
  • Auto duplicate-tag prevention

Compatibility

  • Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Oxygen, WPBakery
  • WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads
  • WPML, Polylang, multisite
  • AMP, REST API, headless WordPress
  • All major page caches & object caches

Developer tools

  • wp sog import yoast --overwrite (WP-CLI)
  • GET /wp-json/sog/v1/meta?url=… (REST)
  • apply_filters( 'sog_meta_tags', $tags, $data ) and a dozen more

Privacy

Simple Open Graphs does not make external HTTP requests, does not collect telemetry, and does not add tracking scripts.