X (Twitter) card missing in Joomla

Details

X (formerly Twitter) uses its own card tags, such as twitter:card and twitter:image, to show a link as a card with a picture. Audit tools report pages that don’t have them.

Why Joomla sites get it

As with Open Graph, Joomla core writes no X card tags, so they depend on your template or an extension.

Fix it by hand

  • Use an extension or template that writes twitter:card (set to summary_large_image for a large picture), twitter:title, twitter:description and twitter:image on article pages.
  • Make sure each page has an image, as for Open Graph.

Fix it with MetaGen

MetaGen writes X card tags on article pages, from the same title, description and image as its Open Graph tags. Switch them on or off in the MetaGen content plugin.

MetaGen is free for Joomla 5 and 6. See all the SEO warnings MetaGen checks.

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