Share Pics?

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  • Am still building new blog page for my site and I have the same issue.
    If there is a picture within the post then the facebook share uses it, but if the post is just text then a random picture from my site is inserted in the facebook share link..??? How can I stop this, or even better change the code to always insert my chosen cover picture..?
    Help?

    I was just looking for an answer to the same question. It always pulls the same picture (not sure why that one in particular). Would love to have it just use the featured image from the post. (And thank you, and I’d happily upgrade once I can get this particular issue resolved.)

    Hey I managed (well I think I did it..!??!) to fix it..!!
    If you’re happy to use the same ‘cover picture’ all the time, then you need to add the following ‘meta property’ into the <head></head> section of your pages. So I embedded it into my header.php file:
    <meta property=”og:image” content=”URL link to your chosen picture to insert.jpg” />
    .
    Now works fine! I remembered from an earlier issue with my original non-wordpress website that this is one of the meta parameters that facebook requires…if you don’t set this then it finds it’s own choice…!!

    Unfortunately sometimes Facebook ignores the parameters we pass in when sharing and instead picks its own image. You can install an OpenGraph plugin (search for one in the WP.org repository) that will add OpenGraph tags for the featured image in your post, that should force FB to use that image.

    Thread Starter gbbuggs

    (@gbbuggs)

    mikecoleman

    How can I complete what you suggested? Open graph works at times, but is not reliable.

    gbbuggs

    Not sure I understand your question..??
    Now I’ve added the <meta property=”og:image”….> parameter into my header.php file it always work for me, but it only puts the picture I specified in the <meta> parameter, no others, even if there is a picture within the post.
    I can only suggest you try adding a plugin, as Synved the Author has said.

    I have the same linked photo issue in FB. I never taught it would be so complicated with a paid Plug-In. I now have to add OpenGraph?

    We always send in the image you specified as featured image to Facebook when sharing, but sometimes Facebook ignores it and instead picks its own image from the page.

    This could be due to having some plugin that inserts incorrect OpenGraph tags (like All in One SEO I think for instance) or simply Facebook just plain ignoring our parameters for whatever reason. Unfortunately we cannot “force” Facebook to use the parameters we pass in, it’s up to them to choose which image to pick.

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