[Plugin: WPBook] Remove other Post Artefacts from FB Wall

Where is the “tweet this” image coming from? I’m assuming a plugin of some sort. You should be able to Unhook the plugin when you post it to your wall. It looks like your “tweet this” buttons is part of the post and as WPBook is posting the post to the wall it includes the “tweet this” button, One idea may be to try to use the “excerpt” field and only post part of your post or even the whole post without the button.

Thanks BanRan, I tried the “excerpt” method today, but this still brings the Tweet Plug-in image. So, next I will try to Unhook the plugin when posting to the FB Wall.

Cheers, I’ll let you know the result.

John

Out of curiosity what plugin are you using? Now that I’m thinking about it I see that your post don’t have a thumbnail image attached to them which may be another reason why it’s grabing the tweet this. You may try adding a post thumbnail to your post and see if this fixes the problem.

BanRan:

I Unhook the “Tweet This” Plugin; and now the “Translate” (jpg) image was sent to the FB Wall, along with the Post text. I am thinking that maybe I should return to the pre-IFrame version of WPBook, when this issue was not occurring?

Details for the “Tweet This” Plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tweet-this/ (version 1.8.2)
https://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this/

Thanks,
John

What’s happening is that you are *not* setting a “featured image” for each post.

When WPBook does not find a “featured image” with each post, it posts to Facebook without an image. Facebook then visits the url being posted and chooses an image to use to represent the post – and you don’t control what it chooses.

Does your theme support “featured images” aka “post thumbnails”?

If not, you should enable it – even if you just set the featured image to a blank gif, or the logo of your blog, it would prevent Facebook from picking another one.

Instructions on how to enable post thumbnails

John:

As always, thank you for clearing this up. My theme does not have the “featured image” enabled, and I will look at adding the code to support this. (btw – great article on post thumbnails)

We can mark this support thread as: “No Fault Found”.

Cheers,
John Durocher

@daurora – enabling support for post thumbnails is really quite simple, though it does involve editing your theme’s “functions.php” file.

You don’t actually need to edit your theme to make use of the post thumbnails – that can be more complex – it just needs to give you the option to add them in the post compose screen.