Facebook default image
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Something has changed in Facebook publicize in the last couple of weeks — it seems to be ignoring all the images in the posting and the featured image, and picking the second image on my side bar widgets. This looks terrible!
If I post manually on Facebook, it gives me a choice of images that consist of my header graphic, the featured image, and my side bar images (starting with the second one, skipping the first). Erg!
This worked beautifully up until about September 30
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Hi there,
I’m sorry this is happening to you! Can you send me a link to one of your blog posts where this happened? It would also help if you could point out the picture that Facebook did select when that post was publicized. Our team can use that information to track down what’s going on.
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Thank you! I keep deleting/recreating manually on Facebook, but here’s one I left …
http://winterfilmawards.com/2013/10/07/winter-film-awards-supports-independent-filmmakers/
The image it picked is the our Hollywood Flesh Feast image (third image down on right-hand navigator).
If I manually create the link on Facebook, it selects this Hollywood Flesh Feast image as the default, and also includes the images BELOW that on the right bar (never the FIRST couple, though), and then eventually lets me pick either an image from the post or the header image for the site. It doesn’t include the site gravatar in the list when I do it manually.
Setting a FEATURED image doesn’t seem to make any difference with Publicize, but does help with manual creation.
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Thanks for this additional information! Here’s what’s happening: When you use Publicize, Facebook (and any other social media you have linked via Publicize) will only select images that are at least 200 x 200 pixels. We have some information about how that works here: Images in Publicize
Since none of the images in that post are at least 200 x 200 pixels, Facebook looks for another image from your blog to add to the publicized post. This is different from when you manually add posts to Facebook. The best way to fix this is to be sure to include a large image somewhere in the post or as a featured image when you publish it.
If you have any examples of posts that have an image (either a featured image or an image within the post) that’s at least 200 x 200 pixels but wasn’t publicized correctly on Facebook, please send me a link. It’s ok if you deleted the publicized post on Facebook — as long as the post itself hasn’t changed, I can take a look at it to see why the larger images didn’t publicize.
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Eh, this is still sometimes OK, sometimes not.
I made one post with a larger image, and it worked great.
http://winterfilmawards.com/2013/10/25/winter-film-awards-announces-indieflix-partnership/Another didn’t work at all, no matter how big I made the image. Even manually creating it in FB didn’t grab the image as an option and I had to override it by uploading an image.
http://winterfilmawards.com/2013/10/27/the-psychology-behind-why-we-watch-horror-films/The biggest difference between the two posts is that the first used an image stored in my media library. For the second, the image was just pasted in. This used to work perfectly!
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Hi there,
Facebook is pretty picky about what images it will use — I’m happy to keep helping with this to make sure Publicize works the way you want it to. I took a look at the image you used in your post here:
http://winterfilmawards.com/2013/10/27/the-psychology-behind-why-we-watch-horror-films/Even though you made the image bigger in your blog post, the actual image file is only 224×121 pixels. Facebook can only see the actual image file, so resizing it within your blog post won’t make a difference to Facebook for publicizing the image. If the image is uploaded to your media library, you can resize it there before adding it to your blog post, and that would work for Facebook. You can learn about editing and resizing images in your media library here: Image Editing
Please let me know if you have any questions about that!
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