Featured Image is not being shared with article

I stated above – I active the Photon and configured the Publicize but the featured images are still not showing up. I’m not sure with the ‘og:type & ‘og:url mean. I do appreciate your help here.’

I initially said I wasn’t sure but then your next comment suggested I do the Facebook’s debugger.

It sounds like the reason is that the sharing is taking to long and facebook is timing out if I am understanding you correctly.

James, if I didn’t answer you directly it is because I didn’t realize MarkRH is also helping. I understand you are busy with a lot of requests but I am also trying to get my site working properly.

Mark where would I find the FB posting to enable it?

I active the Photon and configured the Publicize but the featured images are still not showing up.

Ok, sorry, I was going off of “I am not using Publicize” in your first reply.

Publicize will *not* share the featured image. In order for Publicize to share the image, it *must* be included in the actual post content.

Thank you.. ?? Humm so just setting the featured image will not do it? I don’t see a button when doing the post that would include it. Where would I find it?

You need to actually insert the image into the post content, like any other image.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Inserting_Images_into_Posts_and_Pages

Ok.. We insert an image on the post, as well as the featured image. So there are 2 images – one on the post and one as the featured image. If you would like you can go to the fb site – https://www.facebook.com/tribosblog and scroll to the green christmas picture – that was the last time we could post showing the image on fb. That was 8/15/15. We have done nothing to make any changes except to update to 4.3. Could this as Mark suggested a timeout issue?

Would you please give us the URL of the post with the problem?

It’s all posts. We have every post going to the facebook fan page – https://www.facebook.com/tribosblog – the last successful posting with the image appearing was 8/15/15. If you click on the above link it will take you to the page and the postings.

Ok, I guess I’ll look later. I can’t access that from my mobile phone, but I could have with a post URL.

This is why we ask for specific things, because we need specific things.

I’ll revisit this later today or tomorrow.

Technically, as long as there is an og:image tag, Facebook will use it even if there is no image in the actual post.

One of the posts https://www.tribosblog.org/?p=2873 that doesn’t show an image on the FB page, actually has the og:image tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://i1.wp.com/www.tribosblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/David-Baldwin.jpg?resize=500%2C282" />

But, like I mentioned earlier, Facebook just times out before it can get the information it needs where I just wait for the post to show.

So, I think I will shelf this until the 4.3.1 release is out and see if that resolves the issue. Since my site is loading very slow it is very likely that is the problem. It all happened at the same time.

Thanks for all you help. I do appreciate it. ??

Thanks, Mark!

Upon upgrade to 4.3, we are also seeing a change in featured image behavior. I have disabled all plug-ins except JetPack, but Publicize is not activated.

On going to Set Featured Image modal dialog, the library never appears. I can only upload a new image. When I do that, WordPress puts the image in the wp_postmeta table in the database but does not inert a thumbnail row in that table. It only inserts two rows into postmeta: the one attaching the image to the post and the one with the sizes of images the theme created.

I am using a theme developed by a third party and some of the code I have seen doesn’t exactly conform to WordPress best practices, but nothing was actually broken until 4.3.

THe behavior on the post editing screen is that the featured image does not appear. Here’s something worse: It occasionally works but mostly it doesn’t, and I’m concerned something may be wrong with the PHP version on the server.

Anyway, the incomplete insertion of featured images into wp_postmeta is new with the 4.3 upgrade. I don’t know if it’s the theme, the PHP version, or some bug in 4.3…

Paul, might want to start your own thread…

Use this handy link: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform ??