How do I get images to show up when I use Publicize to my Facebook page?

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  submergebible · Member · Dec 2, 2011 at 12:05 pm

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  Hi, I’ve enabled Publicize to share to my Facebook Page, but no images are showing up on the Facebook Wall, even though there are lots of images in the posts. I’ve tried setting Featured Image (even though my theme doesn’t use this feature) but this doesn’t make any difference. Please help, as my WordPress Publicize posts don’t look very appealing and aren’t encouraging people to click through.
  Thanks
  Blog url: http://submergebibleguide.wordpress.com/

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  submergebible · Member · Dec 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm

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  the Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/submergebibleguide

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 2, 2011 at 4:31 pm

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  Could you try reconnecting to Facebook, and then publishing a new post?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-facebook

  You can find out which images are sent to Facebook here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#troubleshooting

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  submergebible · Member · Dec 2, 2011 at 5:42 pm

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  reconnected Facebook, tried publishing, still no image appeared on Facebook.
  (have since hidden the FB post as it didn’t have the image, and have re-scheduled the WP post to try again tomorrow afternoon which is a better time for the post to go up)

  I’ve read the thing about which images go to Facebook, I just don’t understand what I’m doing wrong that means no images are going to Facebook…

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 2, 2011 at 10:59 pm

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  It’s up to Facebook to choose the images. They actually scan the first portion of the post for images that meet their rather limited criteria.

  If they don’t find any before they give up, they won’t show any.

  Unfortunately, we have no control over this process.

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  submergebible · Member · Dec 5, 2011 at 2:57 pm

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  thanks for letting me know, I thought that might be the case, I just wanted to check that I wasn’t doing something wrong. Is there anything I can do to increase the chances they’ll pick up on an image? Publicize isn’t looking very attractive for me at the moment otherwise.

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm

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  Howdy,

  We can only offer the tips listed here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#troubleshooting

  Unfortunately, there’s really much we can do from our side as it’s up to Facebook to fetch the images.