Getting featured image of article to post on FB

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  saintjamesproject · Member · Apr 17, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  Does anybody know how to get the featured image of a post to publish on FB instead of our header? When we publish automatically or copy and paste the link, we’re still getting our header. Please see https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-St-James-Project/481144465331738.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 17, 2014 at 6:10 pm

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  Aside from what’s at this link 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.

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

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

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-post-wont-publish-images-to-fb-but-was-previously?replies=8

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  saintjamesproject · Member · Apr 17, 2014 at 6:53 pm

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  Thanks for the references and such.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 17, 2014 at 6:54 pm

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  You’re welcome and good luck.

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  saintjamesproject · Member · Apr 22, 2014 at 4:50 pm

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  Finally figured this out…or rather jeremylduvall of WordPress did.

  I needed to go to Dashboard, Settings, Media, and change the thumbnail size to at least 200 x 200. It’s extremely simple but makes all the difference. Now I’m posting to FB properly.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2014 at 4:57 pm

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  I’m so happy to hear Jeremy was able to resolve this. Thanks for letting me know how that was done.