Twitter card / previews not showing up from Blogger posts? Try this.
Backup your blog first.
Go to Templates and Edit HTML.
Control (PC) or Command (Mac) - F to find
<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
Then paste in:
<meta content='summary_large_image' name='twitter:card'/>
<meta content='@yournamehere' name='twitter:site'/
<meta content='@yournamehere' name='twitter:creator'/
<meta content='www.yoursitehere.com' name='twitter:domain'/
<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' name='twitter:image:src'/
<meta expr:content='data:post.title' name='twitter:title'/
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='twitter:description'/
<b:else/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.snippet' name='twitter:description'/
</b:if>
<meta expr:content='data:post.sharePostUrl' name='twitter:url'/>
Replace @yournamehere with your Twitter name, then replace your website here with your full blogger site name, including the https://
Click save.
Go to yu blog and copy a post link, not the home address.
Then go to https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and paste in your blog post url. click 'Preview Card' and it should pull correctly. Might take a minute, too as mine did the first time.
I've been sticking with Blogger for my personal / part-time consulting site. It's where I started and there's some nostalgia in there, I guess. There are more robust options out there, but it keeps working with some mods like this on occasion.
I do wonder though when might a major refit be coming with a WordPress, Squarespace or Wix style functionality.
We'll see.
Keep tinkering.
AP
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