Can\'t get thumbnail to appear in Facebook shares

• 

  mpowelson80 · Member · May 20, 2011 at 7:15 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hi,

  When I publish a new post and wordpress automatically shares it on my Facebook feed, the image I use in the post never accompanies it onto facebook. The same thing happens when I try to manually paste the url on FB — it just creates a link, but without the thumbnail. I know I must be doing something wrong — or have some setting switch flipped incorrectly, b/c when others share a wordpress post of mine on FB, I do see the picture.

  Any advice?
  Blog url: http://michaelpowelson.wordpress.com/

• 

  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 20, 2011 at 7:24 pm

  • Copy link

  It’s nothing that you’re doing.

  Unfortunately, Facebook has a list of requirements that it looks for when selecting the thumbnail, and these requirements change rather frequently.

  Honestly, I recommend not worrying about it. Sometimes you’ll get a thumbnail, and sometimes you won’t. It’s entirely up to Facebook.

• 

  mpowelson80 · Member · May 20, 2011 at 8:18 pm

  • Copy link

  Gotcha. Can you tell me why, when the link is posted to FB, the blog excerpt always begins with the second paragraph, skipping over the first entirely?

• 

  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 20, 2011 at 8:20 pm

  • Copy link

  Yet another Facebook oddity, I’m afraid. :(

  Sometimes the text it finds is just as random as the images.