To make it easy for your readers to share your stories, you can easily add a Facebook (and Twitter and LinkedIn) share button to the top of your story by clicking where the social media buttons sit in the header of the story.
To ensure the Facebook button shows in your story header, switch the toggle to ON.
Click Edit story social settings to navigate to the social panel where you can specify an image, title, and description of your story that will populate the Facebook post when the share button is used. You can also enter a Facebook App ID (here's how).
Feed image
In the SOCIAL CARDS section of the panel, a copy of your story title image is used by default as the image that will accompany a post about your story, however you can replace the image with any of your choosing simply by dragging and dropping in a new one from your computer.
Title & Description
As a default, Facebook will use the title added to the title section, and the description will be based on the subtitle. That is unless a different title and description has also been added via the settings panel. If you'd like a different title and/or description to be used by Facebook and other social services that use the Open Graph protocol, then enter those in the TITLE and DESCRIPTION fields of the SOCIAL panel.
Note: if no title or subtitle/description has been added to the Title section, SETTINGS panel or SOCIAL panel, Facebook may use other text from the story when referencing it in their feeds.
Important note re: Facebook App ID settings:
Here are some checks to ensure your Facebook App ID is set up correctly:
Please check that the relevant domain where you will publish your Shorthand story is listed at this URL (enter your App ID into the URL as directed): https://developers.facebook.com/apps/YOUR_APP_ID_G...
You also need to ensure Sandboxing is turned off, which you can check at this URL: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/YOUR_APP_ID_G....
PLEASE NOTE: If you click the Facebook share icon before the story is loaded to the final URL, the Facebook code will look for the first image/s it can find and this code will be cached. To remedy this ahead of launching your story, visit this URL: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and press 'fetch new scrape information'.
Make sure Facebook links to the right location for your story
If the story is going to be hosted on your own servers (rather than with Shorthand Hosting), you'll also need to provide the full URL of where the story will finally be published so that Facebook posts from your story can include the appropriate link to it. Add the story URL via the editor SETTINGS panel (found near the top-left of the editor screen):
