Wrong OG image

  • Resolved yandoos

    (@yandoos)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello
    I’ve noticed that when sharing on fb the og image is always the default one I specified in settings. The Force Fallback Image as Default is unticked and I thought this meant it would look for a featured image first and if there is not one it would only then use the default image. When I debug in fb it finds both featured image and default image but chooses the default image every time. How can I make it use featured first and if no others use the default one?
    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    How the plugin works is it puts an array of images in the meta tags for Facebook. If it finds any in your content or you have a featured image those get added to the array, and if you specify a default image that too gets added. Facebook used to be very good at pulling those in order; recently they have not been doing that the same all the time. Facebook changes how they do stuff quite often and don’t really mention they change things.
    That said; the next version of the plugin (in beta on GitHub) will have to be much more specific to try and make Facebook behave; basically only giving it one image instead of the array of images it used to like.
    So you can get on that beta (reminder, it IS a beta so) or just wait for the new version to come out. I haven’t had a lot of time due to client work but it will come eventually. You can remove the fallback image link and make sure to add featured images to all pages and posts – that’ll help your issue for now.
    Cheers

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