Extension:TwitterCards

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
TwitterCards; Release status: experimental
Implementation	Parser extension, User interface
Description	Adds meta tags to enable Twitter cards on MediaWiki.
Author(s)	Harsh Kothari and Kunal Mehta
Latest version	0.2 (2017-10-30)
MediaWiki	1.23+
PHP	5.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension ; Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub); Gerrit code review; Git commit log; Download source tarball;
	Parameters $wgTwitterCardsHandle; $wgTwitterCardsPreferOG;
	Hooks used BeforePageDisplay;
	Translate the TwitterCards extension if it is available at translatewiki.net
Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The TwitterCards extension adds meta tags to enable Twitter cards on MediaWiki. It requires that the TextExtracts extension is installed.

About Twitter cards

Twitter describes this feature like this:

“Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpages, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a "card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers. It would be really nice for articles, images, videos - everything linked from Wikimedia on Twitter could have a nice little preview on Twitter. The documentation is at Twitter cards - basically it involves adding some meta tags around existing content server-side.”

Installation

Download and move the extracted TwitterCards folder to your extensions/ directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:
```
cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TwitterCards
```
Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
```
wfLoadExtension( 'TwitterCards' );
```
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Extension:TwitterCards

About Twitter cards

Installation

Resources

See also