Publicize: Uncropped featured pic goes to Twitter

  • Sometimes, I need to take a screen grab for use as a featured image for a post. When I do, I use the WordPress crop tool to remove portions of the captured image so that I show what I want. I use Jetpack’s Publicize feature to publish to Facebook and Twitter.

    When the post publishes, Facebook displays the cropped version of the image, but Twitter displays the uncropped image. I have to delete these Twitter messages and repost my link manually so that Twitter displays the cropped image as I want.

    This is consistent behavior. It happens every time I use an image cropped with WordPress in the Featured Image position.

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Jetpack’s Publicize pushes your post’s Featured Image to Social Networks. WordPress doesn’t allow you to specify a custom-cropped Featured Image, so that Featured Image is an original image, just as you uploaded it to your Media Library.

    The issue is most visible on Twitter since Jetpack’s Publicize module uploads that Featured Image alongside your tweets, but the problem will appear in other areas of your site, everywhere Featured Images are in use: post thumbnails, Facebook Post previews, …

    To solve this issue, I’m afraid I can only recommend that you crop your screenshots before to upload them to your Media Library, thus giving WordPress the right image to use as Featured Image.

    I hope this clarifies things a bit!

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