Facebook featured image- Does it always choose the video over the picture?

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  melodykick · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 9:38 am

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  I just posted my first blog entry with a dedicated featured image at the very top, but I also included a youtube video at the end of the same post. When I share the post via Facebook (manually, not automatically through wordpress) it posts the video rather than the featured image. I’d prefer the featured image because it is bigger than the video player, and sits atop the post rather than on the side. Any way around this, or does facebook automatically choose the video over the image? Thanks!

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  melodykick · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 9:40 am

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  BTW, I currently have the image hidden on my post through a CSS if you are wondering where it is. (this is not the cause of the problem. I tried posting once before without it hidden and it still chose the video).

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:01 am

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  This is a constant issue. FB keeps changing how it selects which image to pull, and I’m afraid we have no say in the matter.

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  melodykick · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:09 am

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  That is really disheartening considering that the youtube link is not even an attached file like the image is. I’m gonna wait it out and see what others have to say about this.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:23 am

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  Look at the posts on the Facebook tag in the forum https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/facebook They’ve been saying the same thing for four years at least. Sometimes it takes the featured image, sometimes it takes the blavatar, sometimes it takes the video image, sometimes it takes nothing.

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  melodykick · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:49 am

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  I think I may have resolved it. The problem was that I had linked the video, posted the entry, then added the image later. I removed all of the media on my post then did the reverse. I added the image, posted, then updated it a few minutes later with the video. It seems to be sharing the image over the video now (even after debugging it with the facebook debug tool.) I’m going to do a little more messing around to make sure it’s working the way I think it is. So far it’s good! :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:55 am

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  Congrats!

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  melodykick · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 10:57 am

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  Yup! Definitely working now. Just tried it with a fresh post. NEVER GIVE UP. HOO-RAH!