How do I ensure the featured image I've set, posts when I share on social media?

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  joypond · Member · Aug 23, 2014 at 9:04 pm

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  How do I ensure the featured image I’ve set, posts when I share on social media. It keeps grabbing random other images from inside the blog post. About 50% of the time it shows the set featured image and the rest is a random crap shoot.

  I’m using iTheme2 free version

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  pcosta88 · Member · Aug 23, 2014 at 9:21 pm

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  Hello!
  This is a Facebook issue.
  See here
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-when-i-publicize-to-facebook-does-word-press-not-use-the-proper-image?replies=13

  It appears that a featured image increases the likelihood of it showing up on Facebook but not always. See also: http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  You might consider a couple options:
  1. Force facebook to re-look again for your images
  see here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861
  2. Make a post with just one image and once it hits Facebook go back to the post and re-edit it with other pictures.
  See here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-when-i-publicize-to-facebook-does-word-press-not-use-the-proper-image?replies=13
  3. Manually complete the task by cutting and pasting the link into the FB account.

  I hope one of the options resolves your issue!