Facebook grabbing the wrong image for posts

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  jeffpoole65 · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  I’ve just launched the site (it has been private while I was setting up) and all is good except that Facebook persists in using the wrong images for shared posts.

  I’ve looked at the Facebook debugger and it says “Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that’s at least 200x200px ” The image in this case was 1024×800… *rolls eyes*

  I’ve also noticed that sometimes (especially when using the share buttons on the post) it just grabs the top level of the site (i.e. Claire Bickle is on WordPress) rather than the lede of the post that I’m sharing.

  I know how to manually change these post things myself, but Claire and her fans wouldn’t be able to do that so any help rectifying this will be very much appreciated.

  Jeff

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jeffpoole65 · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:29 pm

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  Oh and I shared the same post on Google+ and they managed to grab the correct image…

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:30 pm

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  Please read these tips http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  We have no control over the images that Facebook chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include.

  Please see http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  and https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861

  See here too https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pachyderm-theme-image-size-on-reader?replies=9#post-1349306

  See this thread for more tips please > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-post-wont-publish-images-to-fb-but-was-previously?replies=8

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  jeffpoole65 · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:32 pm

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  Thanks Timethief! I did have a look around and found the support document.

  I’ll check those other links now.

  I haven’t had this problem before so I was wondering if it might be a bug with the 2014 theme (which is gorgeous!) or somehow related to Claire’s site being switch from private to public.

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:37 pm

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  This is common and in fact I have answered this question so many times i have made a copy and paste answer for it.

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  jeffpoole65 · Member · May 20, 2014 at 10:38 pm

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  *wry grin*