Facebook links – no thumbnails (canonical url issue?)
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I just started publishing my blog and telling people about it. I seem to be hitting an issue with the canonical tag in my header though. It appears before the Facebook Open Graph tags:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://amy-tyler.com/2012/10/13/1st-play-doh-experience/" />
<meta property='og:locale' content='en_US'/>
<meta property='fb:admins' content='115800964'/>
<meta property='og:title' content='1st Play-Doh Experience - Life's Little Adventures'/>
<meta property='og:url' content='http://amy-tyler.com/2012/10/13/1st-play-doh-experience/'/>
<meta property='og:site_name' content='Life's Little Adventures'/>
<meta property='og:type' content='article'/>
<meta property='og:image' content='http://amy-tyler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121008-10-300x200.jpg'/>
<meta property='og:image' content='http://amy-tyler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121008-9-300x200.jpg'/>
<meta property='og:image' content='http://amy-tyler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121008-11-200x300.jpg'/>
<!-- / Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. -->so when I use the Facebook Debug to see why it won’t display thumbnails, I get an error that seems it can’t resolve the address when I pass it a blog post rather than just the home page.
Is it because of the canonical URL? Is there any way to get around this without disabling the canonical tag? I couldn’t seem to find anything on Google or in the forums concerning this.
Appreciate the help!
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Hello,
I am having this same problem, but my blog IS on wordpress.com. I am using the Fresh and Clean theme. When I post links to specific blog posts on facebook, the images do not come up at all. They used to, but they don’t anymore. A friend of mine uses the exact same theme, but his links always show a thumbnail image when he posts on facebook. This suggests that this is not a facebook issue, but a wordpress issue.
My blog is: http://manfuel.wordpress.com
Please help.
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Unfortunately, we have no control over the images that Facebook chooses. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/avalaible-facebook-thumbnail-issue?replies=7#post-1000734
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Yes, I’ve seen this wordpress response before, but a friend with the same exact theme is able to get his thumbnails posted and this is a new problem for me. I have not changed or done anything differently. There seems to be no reason why it would work for my friend, but not for me.
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We have no control over which images Facebook chooses to display and we have no control over how long it takes for the image caches at Facebook to be flushed. They make changes frequently and every time they do we get these kind of questions. I’m sorry I cannot help you. Does this help?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861
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