Deleting facebook image thumbnail

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  ximenazarratea · Member · Nov 4, 2014 at 3:23 am

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  When I want to share my post on Facebook, how can I delete the thumbnail that appears in the post? (when i don’t have any and it’s white)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Nov 4, 2014 at 8:02 am

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  Hi there. I’m afraid that is determined by Facebook, not by WordPress. If you don’t have an image in the post, Facebook usually uses your blavatar (provided you have one uploaded), but I’ve seen it happen that it doesn’t show anything sometimes. See here for more info: http://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/

  If you auto-share your posts via Publicize you have no control whatsoever over this, but if you post your link to Facebook manually you should be able to control whether it shows an image or not, and in some cases it would even let you upload your own image to include with the link (works that way on pages, I’m not sure about personal profiles. Also, due to the way Facebook’s news feed works, posting the link manually will also lead to more people seeing it in their feeds, so it’s really the route I would recommend.

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  ximenazarratea · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 3:50 am

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  Thank you so much fo answering! I think that i’m doing it manually then :)