Facebook pulling in wrong image from Publicise

Disabling Photon did not help.

See my previous comments about how my Shared posts appear on my FB business page.

I did a test post today to see if I could narrow down the problem.

I have the latest Jetpack and WP versions running with Photon disabled but Share turned on for FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

I created a draft post with one imbedded image and one link to another site, but I disabled the Share to FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn with the Edit on the Publicize option.

I then published the post. You can see it at:

The Greater Roadrunner

I waited 3 hours to confirm that it did not appear on FB, Twitter or LinkedIn. I went to the above link and selected the FaceBook icon at the bottom. I was presented with the FB link popup with the option for comments, selecting the image for the FB post, etc.

I accepted the defaults and you can see the results on my personal FB page for David Woodcock. The post shows with the correct photo.

So I think that this shows two things:
1. I believe the Automatic Share function in Jetpack has a problem being able to post to FB. The manual share works perfectly and presents the image correctly.
2. That the manual share at the individual Post is setup to share with your personal FB page, not the FB page account defined in the Automatic Share function. Maybe this is by design?

So at this point I can not really share a post with my business page and have it present the image correctly.

I hope this helps.

1. I believe the Automatic Share function in Jetpack has a problem being able to post to FB. The manual share works perfectly and presents the image correctly.

As I mentioned earlier, there is no difference between the way previews are built for a post published via Publicize or for a post published manually.

However, and as we discussed with @samaralife and @jairus, the problem could be caused by a problem for Facebook to grab the images from the meta tags when Facebook is the first to load the images.
I’m not sure what the solution could be, short of quickly loading a post in your browser as soon as you’ve published the post, and hope that you load the images before Facebook does.
You could also report the issue here:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/

2. That the manual share at the individual Post is setup to share with your personal FB page, not the FB page account defined in the Automatic Share function. Maybe this is by design?

Facebook Like and Share buttons do not allow you to post to Pages, only to personal profiles. This is something we cannot control, as the post action is made on Facebook.

I’ve reported the problem to facebook several times, but no answer. Would it be possible to build a debug version of Publicize that loads the featured image and waits five seconds before submitting it to FB, to see if that’s the issue?

I would certainly vote for Jairus’s suggestion and help test if needed. This is a really annoying problem, I am about ready to turn off this feature and look for some other solution if it does not get resolved.

Like others, I’m basically about ready to give up on Publicize. I’ve debugged with Facebook several times, and my posts look fine. Publicize consistently results in the wrong images, and (as of today) NO images being pulled into Facebook.

Would it be possible to build a debug version of Publicize that loads the featured image and waits five seconds before submitting it to FB, to see if that’s the issue?

We’ll run some tests and see if that helps, yes. If it does, we’ll include the fix in the next Jetpack release.

Jeremy.
anything new?

Publicize not working properly

I’m looking at different forum post
many similar problems ..

I have the same problem with my site: (just made the post Jan 14, 2014)

my post
https://www.fitopardo.com/001/2014/01/14/the-future-for-3d-laser-illuminated-projection/

the post in Facebook:
https://www.fitopardo.com/001/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-14-at-12.53.16-PM.png

@solomexico Could you check this thread? If that doesn’t help, could you please start your own thread, as per the Forum Welcome?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/jetpack#postform

Thank you!

Hi,

I found the solution in regards of this issue. Your post image should at least 200×200 in size or maximum. And if your post image smaller than 200×200 size then FB share widget will choose random image which is most higher in width n height. Hope this help. Just try to upload more than 200px wider and 200px higher in height. Then check your sharing widget working perfect ??

Here you can see the widget its working perfect ??
https://www.pinkgerms.com/

I have been having similar problems with my site for the last few months.

I have been trying to find and follow solutions via the forum and online, to no avail.

I used to be able to manually publicise posts to Facebook or LinkedIn with ease…and they would always show (or have available) the image(s) I had inserted in the post.

Now that doesn’t work:
. FB always pulls up my site’s main banner picture
. LI sometimes gives me an option of images, other times (like this week) it only pulls up the main banner picture.
. It doesn’t make any difference whether I use the URL or the share button to share the post.

I have read the posts saying that images need to be at least 200×200. I have ensured that this is the case but it does not make any difference.

I have tried using the FB debugger…and it says the images need to be at least 200×200 – even if they are that size or much bigger. Here is an extract the latest replies (which are at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsustainablejill.com%2Fthe-importance-of-good-focus%2F):

. The ‘og:url’ [‘og:title’, ‘og:description’, ‘og:image’] property [should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

. Provided og:image is not big enough. Please use an image that’s at least 200×200 px. Image ‘https://sustainablejill.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cropped-Earth-in-your-hands-11296348_l.jpg’ will be used instead.

I have also read posts about OG metatags, but cannot seem to find where they are located (I am a relative newcomer and not an IT geek).

My site: https://sustainablejill.com/

Sharing plug-in: Jetpack Publicize (latest version)

Please help! Thanks in advance.

@sustainablejill Could you please start your own thread, as per the Forum Welcome?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/jetpack#postform

Thank you!

Thank goodness it isn’t me! I use publicize and my photos on google+ are correct and also my site is correct. Wp news doesn’t post any images and Bloglovin stopped posting images too.
I use the featured image, as my easy recipe won ‘t allow me to lead with a media image. I get an error about ajax something. Indeed when FB takes too long, I picks a random image. I often find my posts lose connections with publicize and I have to refresh. How do I check on open graph?
I use genesis 3.8.1