Can I chose which photo is uploaded to my social media?

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    cteavin · Member ·

    Every time I create a new post the LEAST favorable picture is uploaded to Facebook and Google +. I had thought that it was the first or last image in the post, but no. Every time the photo I least want to be used is used.

    How does WordPress chose which photo to upload to my social media and what can I do to control it?

    Thank you,

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  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Publicize automatically selects an image to associate with your post on Facebook, and follows these steps:

    – If you’ve selected a Featured Image, it will be used on FB
    – If you included a slideshow into your post, we’ll pick an image from there
    – If you don’t have a slideshow, we’ll look for a gallery
    – will then look for other images attached to your post
    – If you use an image that’s not hosted on your site, we’ll use it
    – Did you add a Blavatar to your site? If so, we will use this image
    – Finally, if you didn’t use any of these images, Publicize will fall back to your Gravatar Profile image.

    However, Facebook can sometimes pick an image based on their own algorithm so the above list should be taken as a guideline. In your case, adding a Featured Image is a good first step to try.

    Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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