Can I just use 1 meta tag to make the 'Twitter Card' work?

[johnwhitearts]

Hi All,
I’m not a developer. I used the quickstart guide and couldn’t tell how how much code I need to add to my pages. I pasted this into the template of my whole site—and only this—just before the closing HEAD tag:

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />

Am I wrong in thinking that this is sufficient for a tweet to display a preview of my page links? Here’s one:

http://johnwhiteillustrator.com/app-game-animals.shtml

Thanks all,
John

[andypiper]

You also need twitter:title, twitter:description and twitter:image for the card to be generated (docs - image optional, but obviously since you’ve selected Summary Large Image you want one to be displayed). You can check your page in the validator.

[johnwhitearts]

Hi Andy, thanks for the reply.
My site is a static one. So does that mean that I have to type all that stuff into the head of every page I want to post on Twitter?

I now suspect that CMS sites like Wordpress ones have this built into them and they do it automatically for every post and page. Is that right?

John

[andypiper]

Yes, that’s exactly right - we have a Wordpress plugin that can help with this. For static sites, you’d need to add the info to individual pages.

[johnwhitearts]

Aaargh… Oh well, I’ll just have to do without until the day I re-build my site in Wordpress.

Thanks Andy,
John

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