Rather than add Pin It buttons through our site, I would like to simply control what images show up in Pinterest's "Find Image" results if a user decides to pin one of our URLs.
As of now, "Find Images" allows the user to scroll through the images it finds on the page so they can select which image to pin. The "found" images start with the first jpg in the html file, I'm assuming (could that be a bad assumption??). On our site, this forces a user to scroll through about 15 navigation and promotion images before arriving at the featured product image. Is there any way to specify this image to show first in those results? Maybe through a meta tag, or by adding a class or id to the element?
Without a public Pinterest API, this seems like just guesswork, but I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this, or solved this. Thanks.
A lot of search results including the Pinterest Help Center talk about using nopin in HTML elements, which is invalid HTML. What they don't document is a data attribute to the same (well formed) effect.
<img src="foobar" data-pin-nopin="true" />
Adding the nopin attribute will exclude the image from appearing on Pinterest:
<img src="..." nopin>
I solved this by simply loading the image before all others in the page. In this case, I gave it width="0" and height="0" (you could also give it style="position: absolute; left: -9999px; top: 0;" just to be sure).
This won't break the page layout, but will force Pinterest to find this image first. The only downside is that the browser will load the page a few milliseconds slower, but if you're reusing this image later in the page anyway, you should make up for lost time then.
Pinterest will find any images from <img> tags (it will ignore CSS background images) that are at least 80px x 80px.
The order the images show up on in the Pinterest list is determined by the order they are specified in the HTML.
As you have discovered, you can alter the CSS of an image to "hide it" without actually hiding it by either moving it off the page with absolute positioning or 0 height and width. Any images that are set to display: none will not be picked up by Pinterest.
You can instruct the share preview to only grab specific images from the page by using the “image_include” configuration option. First, set image_include to your desired class name (id selectors are not allowed, only class selectors), then add that same class name to each of the images on the page that should be grabbed. For image_include, don’t add the ‘.’ selector. Here’s an example:
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = {
image_include: "at_include"
}
</script>
Once image_include has been defined with a class, add that class to the desired images on the page. In this example, the only images on the page that will be grabbed, will be the images with the at_include class (img1.jpg and img3.jpg).
<img src="http://www.example.com/img1.jpg" class="at_include" />
<img src="http://www.example.com/img2.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.example.com/img3.jpg" class="at_include" />
I was reading this blog which suggests the following:
Use the global no pin flag to prevent pinning on the whole site
Manually add the Pin It widget to those images you want to make pin-able.
Given Pinterest's webmaster tools appear to only have a blacklist, rather than a whitelist option (that you are seeking), this could be a possible solution. Another stated benefit of this is you can also supply suggested pin text through the Pin It widget.
Only downside to this I guess is that it may break the user's own Pin tools. Pinterest does allow you to supply a custom "denied" message, so I guess you can say "please use our site's pin buttons directly".
I've tried this, and it works. It seems like a decent approach, at least until Pinterest sees fit to add some better tools, such as an image whitelist option. The main drawback is needing to add Pin-it buttons on every image you want to enable for your users & your users may be annoyed that they can't pin anything.
Unfortunately, there is no way to mark several images on your page as preferred, but you can mark one image to stay at the top of your images when someone pin it. Specify this meta-tag in <head>:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://YOUR-DOMAIN.com/IMAGE.jpg"/>
I have not found official confirmation for this feature, but it works great with addthis sharing plugin.
Add this script before the actual call to pinterest. And set images that you do not want to show with a class called 'nopin'
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config =
{
image_exclude:'nopin'
}
</script>
<div id="toolbox" class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style">
<a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_tumblr"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_pinterest"></a>
</div>
</div>
If anyone is using AddThis, please check this thread: http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/1570789
AddThis has some, uh, unique functionality that affects the image picker presented. As in, when there is only one image on the page, it ignores the defined og:image.
If you set that lone image to be excluded, then the image picker won't show any images for selection.
I want to load a webpage in several parts, maybe using jquery ajax or just simple javascript ajax functions so the user can start interacting with the webpage withouth having to wait for the whole page to load. Just like gmail does.
How can I achieve such a thing?
Generally you need to dedicate some div containers for inserting dynamically loaded contents.
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="sidebar"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
Then you can load other pages on startup.
$(function(){
$('#content').load('content.php');
$('#content').load('sidebar.php');
});
Of course this is only a start. You have to check for errors on loading and retry. Also using hash value you can dynamically load content & sidebar. etc..
My brand new job is full of wonderful and awful surprises. one of the most interesting part of this job is the will to enhance, accelerate, make everything scale.
And today, first real problem.
Here's the deal : we get up to 20 list elements, each one of them displaying its own Facebook share, Twitter share, and Facebook Like button.
As you can imagine, 60 iframes opening is just a pain for user experience.
My question : anybody has already been facing such problems, and what would you recommend to upscale these performance issues ?
While I'm thinking of an AddThis implementation, I hope there are other solutions I could consider.
Best way to improve performance is not to copy paste the code from facebook plugins.
Facebook 'Like Button' code looks like:
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=127702313984818&xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:like href="example.com" send="true" width="450" show_faces="true" font=""></fb:like>
Issue with this is, if you have 20 like buttons, then 20 Divs are created with id="fb-root" and 20 times the script for all.js is called. Best way is to move the
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=127702313984818&xfbml=1"></script>
to header of page and whenever you want a like button, only use
<fb:like href="example.com" send="true" width="450" show_faces="true" font=""></fb:like>
Same goes for facebook comments & other plugins.
Also, foir some plugins facebook provides option to either use xfmbl or iframe code. Always pick the iframe code because facebook's js has to parse all xfbml code and convert to iframe. It causes a lot of DOM insertions and slows down the page.
Hope this helps!
I would like to configure some kind of ajax loader to an action that executes a file upload. Once the file is quite large (Excel with more than 2000 rows), it takes sometime to be processed and its quite unpleasant to the user, wait with no other feedback than the displayed by the browser.
For me, the ideal solution, would be a blocking popup, displaying a message "Processing the file..." (or something like that), to prevent users to upload another file in the meantime.
Well... I've got something like this in place on a Symfony app although this doesn't really relate to Symfony:
TEMPLATE:
<input type="submit" class="jq-upload" value="Upload" /> // submit button
<div class="jq-loader"></div> // empty div for a loader image
JS:
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".jq-upload").click(function() {
$(".jq-loader").addClass("jq-load-icon");
});
});
CSS:
.jq-load-icon {width: 16px; height: 16px; background: url('../images/loader.gif') no-repeat;}
So, basically the click on upload button adds a class to the empty div next to it, which has an animated gif as a background image. In this case, it's a typical loading icon.
That should give you enough to create a popup or adjust it to your needs.
Normally a webpage load images is like scrolling down. I don't want the visitor's of my site to see it. I am looking for a script that will load my webpage and then it will show completely. I have already put a fadeIn effect but the images loading is scrolling and also my background image.
Questions:
Is there a script for that?
What is the best script to use? PHP or JavaScript?
this is one method, http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/container/panel-loading.html
basically you can wrap the content in a hidden div, then unhide it in the body's onload event.
You could overlay your page with a "please wait..." div, and fade that out when the page is loaded. You could use JQuery's ready event to hide the div.
The downside of this is that users with JavaScript turned off would never see the page, but only the "please wait.." message.
To make it work for users with JavaScript turned as well, you would have to make the "please wait..." div visible using Javascript at a very early stage of the document's loading, which is very tricky to achieve. It might work if you put a <script> tag after the "please wait" div but before the actual page's content.
or you can add on page header small copy's of this images.. 1x1 px and fade it or hide or z-index -100/ browser will download this full-size images
Use this code:
<body onload="document.getElementById('loading').style.display = 'none';document.getElementById('content').style.display = 'block';">
<div id="loading">Some loading text or icon goes here...</div>
<div id="content" style="display:none;">Main content goes here...</div>