Posts are sharing wrong image

  • Hi,
    When I go to share specific posts to social medias like google+, instead of sharing the image that goes with the post, it shares the image (inviting people to my weight loss group) that is on the left sideline. It does this to all my posts. How do I fix this?
    Thank you!
    https://www.cruisin4losin.com

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  • If you’re using an SEO plugin, such as WordPress SEO by Yoast you can set the image you want displayed for social sharing. I believe this is also the case for some other SEO plugins, usually you’ll see these settings below the post content editor. Of course in most social networks you can override in the share posts as well. Hope this helps resolve your issue.

    Thread Starter marya521

    (@marya521)

    Thank you.
    I have set the image that I want displayed for https://cruisin4losin.com/slimming-mojito/ but it is still choosing an image from the sideline. Any other ideas?

    Hi Marya521,

    The social media networks for the most part now all use the OG tags to pull data from your posts that tell them what image to use, what description, title, link, etc.

    Your best bet is to use a Social Media specific plugin (there are a lot of them in the repository) – the better ones setup all your OG tag data for you. I have not found the SEO plugins to do as good a job at this yet.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=social+media+sharing

    If you are very comfortable with adding code to your Theme’s template files, then adding the OG tags to your header.php file is not hard, in which case you wouldn’t need a plugin, but if you’re not comfortable doing that, then a Plugin is the way to go.

    Thread Starter marya521

    (@marya521)

    Thank you both for all of your help. I have been able to fix it!

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