featured image when texting a post link

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    rollingthunderproductions · Member ·

    When texting a link to a post, how can I get the featured image to appear with the link, instead of a black ‘G’ or just the stagnant logo of my website?

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  • supernovia · Staff ·

    @rollingthunderproductions texting as in SMS, or are you sharing the link somewhere?

    Generally any system that supports showing an image will show the same one that it would show on Facebook or Twitter, so you can use this page to test:
    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    You would look paste the post URL there and look for the image it lists. If you are sharing posts that have featured images, and they aren’t showing the images in that test link above, send a link to the affected post and we’ll take a look.

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    rollingthunderproductions · Member ·

    Texting. I wish I could share a screen shot from an Iphone text exchange that details the issue. in the first example, (nicemug.com post) even though there’s a feature image within the WP post, what comes up is a black G, whereas the second example (saunatimes.com post), we see a more attractive link, showing the feature image. How do I get feature images to show when sharing WP post links via text, like with the 2nd example?

    This issue is separate from Facebook. This is when sharing URL’s in text.

    Not sure how to include an image here, but you’d see what i’m talking about. Thanks for understanding.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    According to this article for Apple, the preview in apple text uses og:image.
    https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2444/_index.html

    Since og:image is part of Facebook’s Open Graph, it makes sense to use their debugger in sorting this out. You’ll also note Apple links to the same debugging tool.

    If it works in the debug tool, it should work in text. If it doesn’t work in the debug tool, we will be able to see debug information to help us figure out what is wrong.

    If you can send a link like this one to the affected post, that would be helpful.

    You can upload image via wordpress.com/media and link that image here if you’d like.

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