Facebook thumbnail for main website url coming up blank

  • Resolved dlew21

    (@dlew21)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I know this topic has been touched on a lot over the past few years but I haven’t seen anything recent so I figured I’d ask again.

    My main website url is not being displayed with a thumbnail when I am posting the link to share on facebook. It comes up as if it were any other link, but the thumbnail is just blank.

    I am using the genesis framework and a child theme on my site and am a complete novice so using code to fix this (unless extremely simple and laid out) is not a great option.

    Are there any current plugins that will help me fix this issue? The easy facebook thumbnail plugin didn’t work for me and hasn’t been updated in almost 2 years.

    If this helps, I am running a static front page with a genesis slider (all large images). I do have one 150×150 thumbnail in one of my footers in the event that it was because of size. Nothing is working.

    https://sewtootpatterns.com

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  • Hi, I think we were having the same problem at the same time. I figured it out, so i thought i’d let you know.

    If you download the Yoast SEO plugin (free), look in the dashboard sidebar and under ‘SEO’ you’ll see an option for ‘social’. you need to add your facebook default image on this page.

    next, go to this address https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

    put in your URL and click the button to ‘fetch new data’ so Facebook will ping your site again. If you have any issues, it should tell you below, but hopefully you’ll see your image below… if you see your image, then go to facebook and try putting in your link and it should work.

    if this doesn’;t work for some reason, or you don’t wan t to download the plugin, you can try the following route instead: 1) make sure you have a featured image on your home page (and any other pages you want to show a facebook thumb. 2) go here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-avoid-no-thumbnail-issue-while-sharing-post-on-facebook/ and paste the code into your functions.php as described 3) ping Facebook again like described above.

    Should work.

    Cheers,

    Yukon

    Thread Starter dlew21

    (@dlew21)

    Awesome it worked with the Yoast SEO plugin! Thank you so much!

    no problem!

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