Youtube Thumbnail on Facebook Post Not Displayed

  • Resolved mike19145

    (@mike19145)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    When publishing a post that contains a YouTube video (inserted into the post using the YouTube embed code), and nothing else (no text/images), from WordPress to Facebook using the “publicize” feature, the YouTube thumbnail does not show. I would like to show the video thumbnail in my Facebook post. How can I do this?

    My website is ninjasensei.com

    My workaround was to take a screenshot of the video thumbnail and set it as the featured image. It then showed in my Facebook post but when I navigated to my website to view the post it displayed next to my video which messed up the formatting. I deleted the featured image. It still shows on the Facebook post and not on my blog post, which is what I want. I know there is a modification I can do to the single.php page to remove the featured image from the post but I do not have the code that other posts have referenced.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/jetpack/

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    When you share a post on Facebook, or when Jetpack Publicize publishes a post to your Facebook page, Facebook crawls the page and looks for Open Graph meta tags in the head to build a complete post preview (with an image, title, description, …).

    Jetpack automatically adds these meta tags for you, and includes an image meta tag if you’ve added an image into your post, and if it’s larger than 200x200px.
    It won’t create a Youtube thumbnail out of a Youtube video though.

    However, the NGFB Open Graph+ plugin seems to be doing something like this:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nextgen-facebook/

    If you were to activate this plugin, the Jetpack Open Graph Meta tags would be deactivated and replaced by the images generated by this plugin.

    I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter mike19145

    (@mike19145)

    Hey Jeremy,

    I just downloaded the plugin and tested it out. It successfully posted to my Facebook page using the YouTube thumbnail in my post.

    You are awesome.

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