Gitea: Per-Project Logo to use as og:image (for social posts)

Created on 20 Apr 2018 · 6Comments · Source: go-gitea/gitea

If I paste a project link into Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc it will first try to read from the og:image tag to get the photo that it should use in the image preview.

For example, https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/greenlock.js shows this in the <head>:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0a8b345ddcfc5401f578c850442f1e1b?d=identicon">

And shows this preview:

screen shot 2018-04-20 at 3 13 36 pm

However, I have a specific logo for this project and I would rather show the project logo than my own headshot.

I kindly request a feature to be added which would allow a specific logo to be chosen. For example, if there is a .githeme/logo.png or .gittheme/logo.jpg in the project repository, that that be used instead of the default author logo.

branch master:

.gittheme
.gittheme/logo.png
main.go
README.md

I'd also like to have a feature so that if .gittheme/config.yml exists that it specifies whether the logo (if none is present already) be pulled from the author, organization, or site. For example:

.gittheme/config.yml:

logo: 'site'

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I would rather see this as setting in database not in git (also from performance point of view)

lafriks on 21 Apr 2018

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I would rather see this as setting in database not in git (also from performance point of view)

lafriks on 21 Apr 2018

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Performance is a non-issue. All of the top-level git file structure is already cached anyway.

Putting it in a database would make it proprietary and non-portable.

As the number of git systems grows, I hope that a standard emerges so that features like default issue templates and og tags work just as well in gitea as they do on github or gitlab.

coolaj86 on 23 Apr 2018

Related to #694