Facebook inserts random image when none in post

Hello digbymaass,
The plugin FBAP make og:image temporarily for posts if you set either featured image or provided any image url in the content of post, while sharing link to facebook.
If no image is provided then it won’t make any. Perhaps Opengraph plugin inserting og tags, or facebook crawler picking any random image from your site as i already said.
please check here : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

To use it paste in the URL of your WordPress post and select Debug. This will provide you with errors to fix. Once you’ve fixed the errors, click Scrape Again to clear the cache so Facebook will see your new image(if any).
The image has to be pre-cached before it will display in the sharing app. You’ll either have to pre-cache the image by running it in the Sharing Debugger, or use Open Graph tags (og:image:width and og:image:height) so the crawler can render it without having to process it first.

Thank you

The plugin FBAP make og:image temporarily for posts if you set either featured image or provided any image url in the content of post, while sharing link to facebook.
If no image is provided then it won’t make any.

This is my point – No image is provided and it is taking a random one.

Forget I mentioned Opengraph plugin. This is before I installed it.

Debugging produced the same result – a random image – at the time I posted this.

Errors:
Inferred Property The ‘og:url’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property The ‘og:description’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Share App ID Missing The ‘fb:app_id’ property should be explicitly provided, Specify the app ID so that stories shared to Facebook will be properly attributed to the app. Alternatively, app_id can be set in url when open the share dialog.
og:image could not be downloaded or is too small og:image was not defined, could not be downloaded or was not big enough. Please define a chosen image using the og:image metatag, and use an image that’s at least 200x200px and is accessible from Faceboo… See More

No idea how to fix them though.

Given that the point of the plugin is that it’s automatic it’s actually easier to just paste in the link manually which gives you a chance to reject an image, rather than mess about with scraping and cache clearing etc.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by digbymaass.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by digbymaass.

I have the same problem. For us the image posted is an image in a widget in the left sidebar. It’s too bad it doesn’t post or share the featured image. It used too. I had to remove images from any widgets in the left sidebar to get an image from the post to publish to FB. It appears to only grab the first image on the page unless it’s the featured image. The plugin appears to ignore the featured image.