FastOG — Dynamic Social Cards & Link Previews for WooCommerce
| 开发者 | fastog |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年11月2日 16:55 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
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详情介绍:
- Automatic live prices and sale badges on social shares. Product covers draw the price from your catalogue, so the number in the preview is the number on the page — including a sale badge when the product is discounted.
- A designed card per page type, not one image reused everywhere:
- Product pages — product photo, name, live price and sale badge.
- Product categories — the category image and title.
- Shop / front page — your brand and tagline.
- Blog posts — title, excerpt and featured image.
- Zero server load — 100% offloaded rendering. Covers are rendered and cached by
FastOG and
og:imagepoints at that cache. Your host never runs a headless browser, never stores a generated image, and never eats the bandwidth of a social crawl. Nothing to manage, and nothing to re-export when a price changes.
- No manual design work. No Photoshop, no Canva, no designer backlog. Pick a starting look in FastOG Studio and covers build themselves from your catalogue.
- Prices that stay current. Cards come from live product data, so a price change or a new sale badge appears on the next share — not on a stale image cached months ago.
- Covers that never go stale. A cover's URL contains the settings that produced it, so editing a cover produces a new URL and social platforms fetch the new image instead of showing the old one. No cache-busting hacks, no "scrape again" instructions.
- The Facebook preview refreshes itself. Every platform caches link previews, and Facebook keeps its copy until something tells it the page changed — which is why an edited cover commonly shows up on Facebook as the old image for weeks. FastOG tells it. Saving a product asks Facebook to re-scrape that page, so the new card goes live without you opening the Sharing Debugger.
- What we cannot refresh, we say out loud. Facebook is the only platform that lets anyone ask for a refresh. On WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X and the rest we can only make sure the correct image is waiting for their next read — when they take it is their schedule, not ours. We would rather tell you that than sell you a promise we cannot keep.
- No GD, no font uploads, no rewrite endpoints. Because we render, your server needs
no image library, no fonts to install and no
/social-image.jpgendpoint that 404s — the failure modes that make self-hosted image plugins collapse on ordinary hosting. - Plays nice with your SEO plugin. If Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress is active, FastOG hands its cover to that plugin instead of printing a competing tag that social crawlers might ignore. One image, one set of tags, no conflict.
- Preview the cover where you edit the product. The product editor has a FastOG panel showing this product's live cover and letting you pick its template without leaving the product screen. The Products list marks each product Serving or Paused beside its name, so you can see the state across the catalogue at a glance.
- Black Friday and Seasonal Offer WooCommerce product templates. Both looks are available for product covers on every plan. Savings display only when the original price is higher than the current price.
- Tells you if a cover stops being served. A background check reads your storefront the way a crawler does and verifies the cover it prints, and if a theme change, another plugin or a stale signing secret stopped the FastOG image it says so in wp-admin. The same state appears under Tools → Site Health and in WooCommerce → Status for whoever is debugging.
- Works with or without WooCommerce. WordPress alone gets front page and blog post covers. Add WooCommerce and product, category and shop pages get theirs too.
- Translated into 27 languages, with nothing to install. The plugin's screens and the Studio editor ship with their translations already inside: Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and the Nordics and Central Europe too. WordPress uses whichever language you set under Settings → General; a partly translated language falls back to English string by string rather than breaking a screen. The full list is under "Is FastOG available in my language?" below.
- One clear plan ladder, no watermark. Every plan covers product, collection, home and blog-post pages, with live prices, sale badges and stock badges. Community is free for up to 100 items and includes four base templates plus the Black Friday and Seasonal Offer product templates. Starter ($19/month) covers 250 items with 24 curated templates and rating badges. Pro ($49/month) covers 1,000 items and adds all 47 selectable templates, the Custom Builder and metafield mapping. Scale ($119/month) adds unlimited item coverage, scoped rules and priority rendering. Black Friday and Seasonal Offer are available at every tier; savings appear only when the original price is higher. No plan adds a watermark.
- Served from our infrastructure, not yours. Renders happen on our own render service and are delivered from our own cache and edge, never from your hosting and never through a third-party image CDN you have to wire up and monitor. We own the serving path, the bandwidth and the uptime; your site only signs a URL.
- FastOG Service Terms: https://fastog.com/terms
- FastOG Privacy Policy: https://fastog.com/privacy
- Service Pricing & Plans: https://fastog.com
安装:
- Upload the
fastog-for-woocommercefolder towp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin from the admin. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- Open FastOG Studio → Setup and follow the three steps: connect this site, choose which page types get a cover, and pick a starting look. Activation itself contacts nothing — connecting is the step that does. Connection requires a publicly reachable HTTPS WordPress REST API so FastOG can verify control of this site before issuing credentials.
- Open Studio to see the covers. Every starting look stays editable there.
屏幕截图:
常见问题:
Why do my shared links look generic?
Most stores ship no Open Graph image for product and category pages, so social
platforms fall back to a logo or a blank tile. FastOG prints a designed og:image
for every page type, so every share gets a card worth clicking.
My product previews are cropped or blurry on WhatsApp and LinkedIn. Is that this?
That is the usual symptom: the platform crops whatever image it was given to 1200x630. A product photo that is square or tall gets its sides or its top cut off, and a logo tile gets stretched. FastOG serves a card already composed at 1200x630 with the product photo fitted inside it, so the platform has nothing left to crop.
Can the preview show the price and a sale badge?
Yes. Product covers are drawn from live catalogue data, so the price on the card matches the price on the page, and a discounted product gets a sale badge. Every plan draws these fields — they are never locked to a higher tier. If a price changes after a link was shared, the next share draws the new price.
My price changed and the old image is still showing.
On Facebook, FastOG already handled it: the plugin registers WooCommerce's own product
webhooks, so saving a product asks Facebook to re-read that page and the new card
normally replaces the old preview within seconds. You do not need the Sharing Debugger.
If Facebook is still showing the old card, confirm the product page itself is serving the
new og:image — purge your own page cache if a caching plugin or your host is still
handing out the old HTML — and re-scrape the page in the Facebook Sharing Debugger.
WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X are a different story, and we will not pretend otherwise: none
of them lets anyone request a refresh, so we cannot push one. What we can do is make
sure the right image is waiting — cover URLs change with the cover, so their next read
gets the new card. When that read happens is up to them; LinkedIn and X typically
re-read within about a week. Their own inspectors (LinkedIn Post Inspector, X Card
Validator) can nudge that if you are in a hurry.
Which platforms refresh automatically?
Facebook, and only Facebook, because it is the only one that offers a programmatic refresh — that is what FastOG calls when you save a product. Every other platform either caches a preview we cannot reach (WhatsApp keeps it in the recipient's app) or exposes no way to ask at all (LinkedIn, X). Those follow their own schedule, and a share that was cached before your edit can keep showing the old card until they re-read.
Do I need WooCommerce?
Not for the covers themselves. Without WooCommerce, FastOG covers your front page and blog posts from WordPress data alone. WooCommerce adds the storefront page types: product, product category and shop covers read your catalogue, so those three need it installed and active.
Will this slow down my site?
No. Covers are rendered and cached on FastOG and served from there, so your server only signs a URL — there are no images generated or stored on your hosting and no impact on page speed.
I use an SEO plugin. Which one wins?
FastOG does. If Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress is active, we do not
print a competing <meta property="og:image"> — a second one does not override the
first, it competes with it, and social crawlers take the first they find. Instead
your FastOG cover is handed to that plugin, so it prints our image with its own
title, description and URL. Without an SEO plugin, FastOG prints the full set of
Open Graph and Twitter card tags itself.
Does the plugin load external code?
No. The editor's script and stylesheet are bundled inside the plugin and served from your own site. The only requests that leave your server are the FastOG API calls the Studio editor makes when you open it.
When does this send site information to FastOG?
Only after you explicitly choose Start setup. Activation and ordinary admin page loads do not contact FastOG.
Does this send customer data to FastOG?
No. Only a site-level profile (site name, site URL, WordPress/WooCommerce/PHP versions and locale) is sent when you connect. No customer, order, or other personal data is transmitted. FastOG also verifies site control through a one-time proof challenge. The temporary proof secret is sent only over HTTPS and discarded after verification.
Where are the card images hosted?
On FastOG. og:image URLs point at FastOG, so your site doesn't need extra
storage or a CDN.
Does the plugin add anything to my page source?
One HTML comment above the social tags — <!-- Social card by FastOG --> with our
URL — so anyone reading the page source can see where the og:image host comes from.
It is a comment: nothing is added to what visitors or crawlers see, no request is
made, and it is stripped of anything that could become markup.
Turn it off on FastOG → Tools → Page source: the switch is in wp-admin, costs
nothing, and no plan changes with it. If you would rather not have the setting on the
screen at all, define('FASTOG_WC_ATTRIBUTION', false); in wp-config.php or
add_filter('fastog_wc_head_attribution', '__return_empty_string'); in a small plugin
also removes it.
Is there a free trial?
Paid plan trial availability is shown in the checkout flow. Community is free forever and does not require Stripe Checkout. Pricing and plans are at https://fastog.com/plugin-pricing.
Is FastOG available in my language?
Yes — the plugin is translated into 27 languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Chinese in both its Simplified and Traditional forms. These translations ship inside the plugin, so they work on any install with no extra step: WordPress uses the language you set under Settings → General. If WordPress.org has a language pack for your locale, that pack is used instead of the bundled copy, so corrections made on https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fastog-for-woocommerce/ arrive without waiting for a release. A language that is only partly translated falls back to English string by string rather than breaking a screen. If yours is incomplete and you would use it, say so on the support forum — that is what decides which language gets attention next.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Community is free forever, covers up to 100 items across all four page types, and renders clean covers without a watermark. It includes four base templates plus the Black Friday and event-agnostic Seasonal Offer product looks, live price and sale badges, and stock badges. Starter adds 24 curated templates and rating badges; Pro adds the Custom Builder and metafield mapping; Scale adds scoped rules and priority rendering. Community does not require Stripe Checkout.
Do I have to finish setup?
No. Until you finish it, FastOG points Studio and Plan at Setup so nothing half-configured goes live — and Skip setup for now lifts that immediately. Tools is never held back: that is where you reconnect or disconnect.
How do I make a changed cover show up?
Cover URLs contain the settings that produced them, so editing a cover produces a
new URL and there is nothing on the FastOG side to clear. Your own page cache can still
keep serving the old og:image, so purge it if a caching plugin or your host caches
pages. After that, Facebook is refreshed for you (saving a product asks
Facebook to re-read the page); WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X pick up the new image on their
own next read.
What happens when I uninstall the plugin?
Deleting the plugin removes everything it stored on your site, including its access key, from every site on a multisite network. Your store record and cover images on FastOG stay in your FastOG account, where you can delete them; covers already shared in social posts keep working until that record is removed.
I had this installed before the FastOG rename — do I lose my setup?
No. The stored credentials (API key, secret and tier) are migrated automatically, so there is nothing to re-enter.
更新日志:
- Maintenance release: fixes and small improvements.
- Maintenance release: fixes and small improvements.
- Pick a cover template for one product, on every plan. The product screen's cover panel now honours a per-product template choice on Community and Starter too, not only Pro and Scale. Choosing which of your plan's own templates a single product uses is not a paid extra — it was simply gated with the full editor, so a store on a cheaper plan had no way to fix one bad product. The panel still only offers templates your plan can draw, so nothing here changes what a plan unlocks.
- The full editor — your own title, badges, features and colours — is unchanged and still Pro. Starter covers keep the store's copy, and a product customised on Pro keeps that customisation if the plan later changes: the live cover falls back to the plan's template instead of breaking.
- Nothing changed in how covers are chosen for a store that never opens the panel, and no cover URL changes shape.
- Maintenance release: fixes and small improvements.
- Your store's star rating and review count, where you decide whether to show them. On product covers the rating and the review count are filled from your own reviews, and the switch that shows or hides them now sits in the Content step next to the copy it affects — not in a separate panel where it read as a second opinion about the same row.
- Ratings are a paid capability. Starter and above get them on product covers; Community covers are served without a rating, and the Studio says so instead of silently leaving the row empty. The plan cards now name the feature: "Ratings on product covers".
- More looks print the review count. Product · Price bar, Product · Price card, Game Storefront, Game and App Screenshot show the count beside the stars. Product · Price card also shows the rating you actually have — a 3.2-star product used to advertise five filled stars.
- A testimonial is never filled from your store. Testimonial and Testimonial Pro draw a quoted customer's stars, so those two keep the field for you to type the score and stop receiving your product's average.
- Live signals are real switches. Turning the rating, the sale or the low-stock badge off now changes the live cover, not just the preview, and the preview respects your plan.
- The Studio is fully translated again in all 27 shipped languages.
- Nothing changed in how covers are chosen, saved, billed or served on a store with no reviews.
- The Studio's announcement button can now open the template picker directly. An announcement from
FastOG names that in-studio action (
app:picker) instead of a web address, because the plugin's pages are not URLs — so the message and its button now point where the work actually happens.
- The Studio's offer-template callout now comes from FastOG's announcement feed. The message, its colour, its icon and its button are written in FastOG's operator console and can change — or expire — without a plugin update. Previously the copy was compiled into the bundle, so a sentence about a seasonal template needed a release.
- Announcements respect your store and your plan. FastOG can target one platform, page or plan tier, and each message can be dismissed; a dismissal is remembered for your store, not for the browser you happened to use.
- Nothing changed in how covers are chosen, saved, billed or served. If FastOG's announcement service is unreachable, the Studio simply shows no messages instead of failing.
- Maintenance release: fixes and small improvements.
- The rejection notice now says what actually repairs it. Two different faults produce the same 401 — a signing secret that drifted, which reconnecting re-issues, and a key FastOG itself cannot read, which reconnecting cannot fix because the key has to be reissued first. The notice told both cases the same short thing, so a merchant whose key needed reissuing was sent clicking a button that could never work. It now says which one you are in, and that a repair is also retried automatically every hour.
- A store whose signing secret drifted now repairs itself within the hour. Every cover a storefront prints is signed with that store's own copy of its secret, and when the copy no longer matches the one FastOG verifies with, every cover answers 401 — while the tag still prints, so nothing merchant-facing reports it. The repair added in 0.26.1 depended on FastOG telling the plugin its covers were failing, but a drifted secret breaks that channel too: the plugin's own request is signed with the same wrong value, so it was refused before it could carry a verdict, and the store sat broken. FastOG refusing the site's credentials is now treated as the signal itself — the one thing a drifted store can still discover on its own.
- The background check runs hourly instead of daily, so a broken store is repaired in about an hour rather than up to a day later. A healthy store behaves exactly as before: it still contacts FastOG once a day. An existing daily schedule is replaced automatically on update.
- A store whose covers are rejected now says so in wp-admin. A new notice names the problem and points at FastOG → Tools, where the diagnostics say whether reconnecting repairs it or the key has to be reissued.
- Variable products price from the cheapest variation that is in stock.
- Two photo-mosaic covers are no longer offered.
collectionandcollageask for two to four product photos, which only a product with a gallery can supply — on a category, a shop page or a single-photo productcollectiondrew empty bordered tiles, which reads as a broken cover rather than a design. Covers already served from these layouts keep working; the wizard and the pickers simply stop offering them.
- Covers whose copy was cut on a space render again. A page or product description is capped at 140 characters, and when the cut landed on a word boundary the value kept the space it landed on. WordPress prints that as
%20at the end of the parameter, which some request pipelines trim before the signature is re-derived — so the cover answered 401invalid_signatureon every fetch, permanently, while the URL looked correctly signed everywhere. Cover copy is now signed with no leading or trailing blank.
- Covers whose description spans two paragraphs render again. A paragraph break in a page or product description kept a
%0Ainside the signed cover URL, and WordPress's ownesc_url()deletes%0a/%0dfrom any URL it prints — so the crawler fetched a URL the signature no longer covered, and every such cover answered 401invalid_signatureon every attempt. Cover copy is now signed as a single line, so what is signed is exactly what gets printed.
- Maintenance release: fixes and small improvements.
- The Products list stays a Products list. The plugin's Social cover column is gone: on a catalogue screen that is already full — WooCommerce's own columns plus a multilingual plugin's, a reference and a brand column — a 14th column is laid out at zero width, so the header stacked one letter per line, the cell spilled over the date column and every row was stretched around the overflow. The Serving/Paused state now sits beside each product name, where it costs no column and cannot disturb the table.
- A store whose signing secret drifted now repairs itself. Every cover a storefront prints is signed with the store's own secret, and the plugin could previously only RECEIVE that secret at registration. If the local copy ever went stale, the plugin kept signing correctly and FastOG kept rejecting every image — the merchant saw broken previews while both halves looked healthy, and the only remedy was finding and pressing Reconnect. The daily background refresh now adopts the pair FastOG reports as authoritative, so a drifted store converges on its own: no merchant action, no reconfiguration, and no change to any cover URL.
- New Page source switch on FastOG → Tools: the one-line credit that names FastOG above your social tags can now be turned off in wp-admin, on every plan, without editing a config file or adding a filter. It was always a comment — no link, no badge, and nothing visitors or crawlers see changes either way.
- The plugin's 27 translations now ship inside it. A directory install only receives a language pack once that locale's translations have been imported and approved on translate.wordpress.org, and until that happens a store had no translations at all while this repository had 27 of them. The bundled catalogues are the floor; a language pack still wins when one exists, so corrections made on translate.wordpress.org keep arriving without waiting for a release.
- Retired templates are never offered again. The setup wizard and the product-screen template picker now read the bundled catalogue's retired list instead of a hand-kept one, which is how the wizard had been pre-selecting a retired layout for blog posts and the picker offering slugs the server no longer ships. A store already using such a cover keeps it: retired templates stay renderable, they are just not offered.
- The translation template is regenerated with every release, and the plugin's own strings are now visible to WordPress.org's string extractor — the Studio's ~90 labels were previously invisible to it, so no translator could claim them.
- Report the installed plugin version from the daily refresh, so FastOG sees an update even when no administrator opens wp-admin, and a stale version is visible instead of silent.
- Refined the Studio dashboard with a smaller responsive preview and clearer controls.
- Aligned Tools, Plan and Support pages with the Studio layout; clarified connection actions, plan features and support guidance.
- Translated the Scale plan's priority-rendering feature across all plugin locales.
- Verify control of the WordPress site before registration or reconnect. Reconnect now runs through a capability- and nonce-protected wp-admin action.
- Added Black Friday and Seasonal Offer product templates to the Studio picker on every plan. Seasonal Offer uses a Christmas wreath; discounts display only when compare-at pricing confirms a real saving.
- A review ask, shown once: a week after connecting, with setup finished and nothing wrong, FastOG asks for a wordpress.org review on its own screens and the Plugins list. The link opens the reviews form with no rating preselected, a support link sits beside it, and dismissing it is permanent.
- Initial release: connection to FastOG, Open Graph and Twitter card tags for product, product category, shop/front page and blog post pages, hand-off to installed SEO plugins, and the FastOG Studio admin screen.