Jekyll OG Image

A Jekyll plugin to automatically generate open graph images for posts.

Add this line to your site's Gemfile:

  gem 'jekyll-og-image'

And then add this line to your site's _config.yml:

plugins:
  - jekyll-seo-tag
  - jekyll-og-image

Jekyll OG Image works together with jekyll-seo-tag plugin. It automatically generates open graph images for posts and inserts them into the posts metadata.

The plugin can be configured in the _config.yml file or in the post's front matter.

The following configuration options are available:

• output_dir – The directory where the generated images will be saved. Default: assets/images/og

• force – If set to true, the plugin will generate an image for every post, even if the post already has an image. Default: false

• verbose – If set to true, the plugin will output additional information about the image generation process. Default: false

• skip_drafts – If set to true, the plugin will skip post drafts when generating images. Default: true

• canvas – The canvas configuration options:

  • background_color – The background color of the canvas. Default: #FFFFFF
  • background_image – The background image of the canvas. Default: nil

• header – The header configuration options:

  • font_family – The font family of the header text. Default: Helvetica, Bold
  • color – The color of the header text. Default: #2f313d

• content – The content configuration options:

  • font_family – The font family of the content text. Default: Helvetica, Regular
  • color – The color of the content text. Default: #535358

• border_bottom – The border bottom configuration options:

  • width – The width of the border bottom. Default: 20
  • fill – The array of colors to fill the border bottom. Default: ["#000000"]

• domain – The domain name to use in the image. Default: nil

• image – Path to the image to use as the logo. Default: nil

Configuration can be defined on the site level or on the post level.

For a side wide level configuration, edit your _config.yml, for a post level configuration, edit the post's front matter.

# _config.yml
og_image:
  output_dir: "assets/images/og"
  domain: "igor.works"
  border_bottom:
    width: 20
    fill:
      - "#4285F4"

# _config.yml
og_image:
  output_dir: "assets/images/og"
  image: "/assets/images/igor.jpeg"
  domain: "igor.works"
  border_bottom:
    width: 20
    fill:
      - "#820C02"
      - "#A91401"
      - "#D51F06"
      - "#DE3F24"
      - "#EDA895"

# _config.yml
og_image:
  output_dir: "/assets/og"
  image: "/assets/images/igor.jpeg"
  canvas:
    background_color: "#F9E065"
  header:
    font_family: "Roboto, Bold"
    color: "#333333"
  content:
    font_family: "Roboto, Regular"
    color: "#333333"
  force: false
  domain: "igor.works"
  border_bottom:
    width: 50
    fill:
      - "#002B7F"
      - "#FCD116"
      - "#CE1126"

# _config.yml
og_image:
  output_dir: "/assets/og"
  image: "/assets/images/igor.jpeg"
  header:
    font_family: "Roboto, Bold"
    color: "#333333"
  content:
    font_family: "Roboto, Bold"
    color: "#333333"
  force: false
  domain: "igor.works"

# _posts/2024-02-15-traefik-tunning-for-rails-applications-part-1.md
---
title: Traefik Tuning for Rails Applications (part 1)
layout: post
tags:
  - Rails
  - Traefik
  - Kamal
og_image:
  canvas:
    background_image: "/assets/images/bc_3.jpg"

• Fork it (https://github.com/igor-alexandrov/jekyll-og-image)
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.