Should be able to add image to Twitter card without it being a large image

[GarthDB]

The standard summary card has a twitter:image property as well.

It's nice to use it for the site logo on cards that don't have large images.

[DirtyF]

@GarthDB @pathawks Should we support two different custom front matter variables page.large_image and page.image in order to allow this?

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag/blob/master/lib/template.html#L153

[GarthDB]

I was thinking an image in the site config would be a nice default for standard summary cards, but a per post property might be good as well.

[mderriey]

I've just started using jekyll-seo-tag and it's great, thank you so much for that!

The best option for me would be to be able to choose on a per-post basis whether to use a standard summary card or a summary_large_image card.

If that's too hard, then @GarthDB's suggestion looks good, too.
I understand it this way:

• if an image is specified for the post, use a summary_large_image card
• if an image is not specified for the post, fall back to a summary card and use the site-wide image for the thumbnail

I'll be happy to submit a PR for that, though I will need a bit of guidance as I've never used Ruby before.

Cheers!

[daviddarnes]

I've noticed this issue has been open for a while. For anyone looking for a workable, yet awful, workaround you can do the following:

{% capture seo %}
    {% seo %}
{% endcapture %}

{{ seo | replace: "summary_large_image", "summary" }}

[benbalter]

Could the folks on the thread advocating for the feature describe their use case a bit more? When would you provide an image and not want it large? Is it just a matter of personal preference? Is it because you're setting a default image on all pages? What's the downside to the image being large in all cases, etc.?

[mderriey]

For me, I'd like a large image when I have a specific image for a specific post. If I don't have one, I feel like a small image with the site logo is enough.

[daviddarnes]

In my case I'm using it for my personal site, and the Twitter card image is my profile picture. So I encounter 2 main problems:

• My face appears huge when I post my site to Twitter
• The large summary image is landscape and therefore crops a square profile picture quite badly

The 'regular' summary image card for Twitter is better designed for square images without much detail, so having the option certain pages would be great.

[GarthDB]

Some screenshots might help this discussion:

Here's the standard image:

Here's the large image:

Twitter's description of the large image card is: The Summary Card with Large Image features a large, full-width prominent image alongside a tweet. It is designed to give the reader a rich photo experience, and clicking on the image brings the user to your website.

I agree with @mderriey and @daviddarnes on use cases @benbalter.

[schoenwaldnils]

Any updates on this? I had to use @daviddarnes workaround.

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[BlythMeister]

Not sure how to request this to be re-opened but this is still an issue as your forced to have a large Twitter card as soon as you put an image.

I've put a PR in with a proposed "fix" whereby at a site level you can specify you don't want large cards.
This may be better at a post level, but since the workaround was at site level, this seemed reasonable.