Facebook doesn't detect image size is above 200x200px

  • Resolved Emielb

    (@emielb)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Michael,

    I ran into a problem with og:image and tried your plugin, but I saw their was no difference as your plugin simply takes the featured image in the og:image tag.

    I would suggest you to read this Stackoverflow thread about this common facebook issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15421521/ogimage-open-graph-warnings-image-size

    I think it would be very interesting to avoid this issue by putting a resized image of the featured image in the og:image tag, rounded to the lower hundred pixels in height and width. I don’t know what the best solution is, but it could be a checkable option in the settings page for example. By using WordPress resize function, this feature should maybe not be too heavy to implement.

    That would greatly enhance your plugin for people like me having frequently these facebook image issue.

    Thanks a lot!

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  • Plugin Author Michael Ott

    (@mikeyott)

    Thanks Emielb,

    Is the featured image is at least 200 x 200 there will be no problem. The image doesn’t have to be multiples of 100 (there’s no mention of such a requirement in the official Facebook developer docs), but if presentation on a Facebook post is something you need to worry about (because Facebook shows thumbnails square) then keeping it as wide as it is high would be ideal.

    One problem a lot of people run into though is they post a URL to Facebook and realise the thumbnail is wrong. Then they change their og:image to use a different image and don’t see an immediate change when they post the URL again to Facebook. This is because Facebook has cached the image used the first time, and the only way to see the immediate change is to run the URL through the Facebook debugger.

    That being said, I could modify the plugin to let users specify a desired image size, and then use that image size for the og:image instead of the featured image size.

    If what you described ever becomes a problem, or of enough people mention then I’d consider such a modification. Until then it’s working fine as is so I’m happy to leave it alone.

    Thanks for reaching out.

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