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

No. Simple Open Graphs is fully standalone. It’s designed for people who want excellent social previews without installing a full SEO suite.

No. The plugin auto-detects the major SEO plugins and yields the front end to them so you never get duplicate Open Graph tags. You can still use the per-post Social Preview metabox to override their values, and run the Tools → Import to copy your existing social metadata in.

No. There is zero JavaScript and zero CSS loaded on the front end. The output is a small static block of <meta> tags inside <head> – typically under 1 KB. Resolved data is cached via the object cache when available.

Yes – products emit og:type=product plus product:price:amount , product:price:currency , product:availability , and product:retailer_item_id .

When a post has no featured image, no image in its content, and no per-post override, Simple Open Graphs can paint a branded 1200×630 card from the post title (plus an optional logo and your site name) so the shared link still looks great. The image is drawn on your own server with the PHP GD extension – no external requests – and cached in your uploads folder so it’s generated once and reused. Turn it on and choose your colors under Settings → Open Graph → Social Image . It requires the GD extension with FreeType/TrueType support; when that isn’t available, the plugin simply falls back to your default social image.

Use the Tools sidebar links to the official Facebook Sharing Debugger, LinkedIn Post Inspector, X Card Validator, and Google Rich Results Test. They each fetch your page and show the rendered preview.

Yes. Go to Settings → Open Graph → Tools , pick your source plugin, and click Run import . We support Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework.

Yes – Text Domain: simple-open-graphs . A .pot file is included in /languages .

Yes. Call GET /wp-json/sog/v1/meta?url=<absolute-url> from your headless frontend to get a ready-to-render JSON payload.

Yes. wp sog show <post> , wp sog import <source> , wp sog reset .

Yes. Each translation has its own metabox values and emits the correct og:locale automatically.

Use filters: sog_meta_tags , sog_resolved_data , sog_enabled_post_types , sog_should_render , sog_remove_duplicate_tags . For the auto-generated card, use sog_card_style (colors/logo per post), sog_card_font_path (point to your own .ttf ), and sog_card_available (force the feature on or off). Hooks documented in the plugin source.

Open a thread on WordPress.org. Include your PHP/WP versions and which SEO plugin (if any) is active.