Social images generation

You need to manually enable this feature.

Peak can generate your social sharing images (OG and Twitter) and add them to your entries. To use this feature you need to install Browsershotopen in new window and its dependencies. A big thanks to Spatieopen in new window and Puppeteeropen in new window!

Installation and configuration

On your development machine you can do this by running the following commands:

composer require spatie/browsershot
npm install puppeteer --global

Once you've installed the required software you can enable the functionality in the SEO globals -> Social Sharing. Make sure to flick on the switch and select each collection for which you want to enable auto generated social images.

Finally uncomment the Social Images Route in routes/web.php.

Edit resources/views/social_images.antlers.html to determine how the images should look. You can go wild with Antlers and Tailwind CSS and add any field you'd like to use. If you want to preview the images in your browser visit http://yoursite.test/social-images/{id}.

Redis as queue driver

The actual generation of the images is a job, so it's queued when you use Redis. To enable Redis as a queue driver make sure it's installed on your server. When you use Ploi or Forge this is done automatically.

Enable Redis by setting QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis in your .env file. Make sure you start a queue worker in Ploi or Forge for your current site. Use redis as a connection and set the current environment.

Generate the images

Once you've opted in the collections you want this available for you can select the entries you want to generate images for in the collection view.

Global configuration	Generating the images

Listable columns

Note that you could opt to toggle the Social image and Twitter image fields listable in the collections list view. That way you can or your client an easily scan collections for missing images.

Listable columns

Remove feature

By default the toggle to turn this feature on is only visibles to superusers. However if you completely want to remove this feature do the following:

• Delete the toggle and collections from resources/blueprints/globals/seo.yaml
• Delete the action app/Actions/GenerateSocialImages.php.
• Delete the job app/Jobs/GenerateSocialImagesJob.php.
• Delete the template social_images.antlers.html.
• Delete the route from routes/web.php.