FaceBook grabs incorrect thumbnail image! Why?

I have the same problem. The Simple Facebook share plug in worked well when I only had a few posts. As I have added more galleries, and posts, when I go to share the latest post using the Facebook Share button – it consistently presents 4 thumbnails from completely different and earlier galleries that I posted weeks ago (2 images from 2 earlier galleries.
I added the plug in “add image_src Meta tag” as well as ‘Facebook and Digg Thumbnail generator’ and there has been no change it still does the same thing. HELP PLEASE
https://www.beadscrystalsandmore.com/blog/
Your assistance would be most appreciated.
Thank you
Rich

I have created a plugin to use the first image of the post as the thumbnail. Here it is – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/

I just did a svn check-in so it might take a moment to be available. You can access it on my blog till then – https://blog.ashfame.com/?p=888

Hi Ashfame,

I hope you can help me. I installed your plugin, made the change to the $default img, and waited 24 hours. Facebook is still showing the wrong image.

https://recoveringyogi.com

Your help is appreciated,

Katrina

Hi Katrina,

Check your page with the lint tool – https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/

The tool will refresh the Facebook cache of that page’s image. So you can get to know if its working or not.

Hi Ashfame,

Thanks so much for your quick reply. I forgot to mention that I did use the lint tool and it is showing up with the thumbnail specified as the Featured Image.

Best,

Katrina

Here’s the lint results:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveringyogi.com%2F

The plugin will pick the first image of the post to show up as the one as a thumbnail on FB, so if you can see the image, what’s the problem?

The correct thumbnail should be…
https://katrinahess.net/thumb_right.png

Instead, users keep getting this…
https://katrinahess.net/thumb_wrong.png

ok can you add me (if your wall is private) and then give me a direct link of one of those likes – https://facebook.com/ashfame

ok this has been resolved, it was some delay in the thumbnails being refreshed even after using lint tool

You are amazing. I will look forward to using more of your plugins.

Best,

Katrina

Dear Ashframe;
I cannot seem to get your plug in to work for me. Can I ask you please for your help in diagnosing why. When I like or post to Facebook – there are NO pictures that thumbnail for me to include. It was working several weeks ago but stopped.
the blog site is
https://www.beadscrystalsandmore.com/blog/
your assistance would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Rich
[email protected]

Its “Ashfame”.

Facebook will take 24 hours to scrap your pages again and will fix it on all the pages. So, if you need to check whether its working or not, use the lint tool – https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/

The plugin will pick the first image of the post to show up as the thumbnail. If the post doesn’t have an image in it, it will fallback to a default image which you can edit in the plugin file and put in the path for your URL there. Details for editing are here – https://blog.ashfame.com/?p=888

Hi Ashframe and thank you for your response
When I lint the blog page https://www.beadscrystalsandmore.com/blog/241/
no image shows.
I am not sure I am linting the right page – can you advise please.
thank you again. sorry to be such a pain

Seriously? Its “Ashfame” not “Ashframe”.

Your page don’t have images in it. Nextgen inserts the gallery as an iframe, so you can edit the plugin to include your logo url which will show up whenever the post don’t have images in it.