Image not showing with link on FB
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When I share posts with images from this blog on FB, there is no thumbnail showing.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Please read these tips http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize
We have no control over the images that Facebook or any other social network 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.
For Facebook please see http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
and https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861See here too https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pachyderm-theme-image-size-on-reader?replies=9#post-1349306
See this thread for more tips please > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-post-wont-publish-images-to-fb-but-was-previously?replies=8
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Thank you Time Thief
Yes, before posting in this WP forum, I did:
1. Checked my settings on the blog and chose a featured image for each post just in case that helped.
2. Used FB’s debug feature.
3. Checked WP forums, etc for other trouble shooting tips.
None of the above resolved this issue, but I do find that it is now only this specific blog/theme of mine that seems to have this problem, not my other blogs.
Any other thoughts?
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Yours is a common complaint as Facebook frequently makes changes on their end of things. We have no control over the images that Facebook or any other social network 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.
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But something in the code of the page must be activating this issue, right? Because the other thing I tried was to create a new “test” post on the same blog, without text, just and image, and it showed up when I shared it to FB. I wonder if it has to do with the text that I have in my posts. I copied and pasted much of it from a PDF.
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I cannot help you. I doubt that Staff can help as but I’ll tag this thread for a response from them because one never knows.
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Hi @kellysalasin!
I cleared the cache on Facebook, and now I’m seeing an image for your post as shown here:
This is the post I used:
http://marlboroafterschool.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/jolt-electronics/
Can you let me know if this is working on your side now?
@alquilerenbuzios – Can you clarify which of your sites you’re referring to?
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Sure! You can clear the Facebook cache (which resets what Facebook sees for your URL) here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object
Just enter the URL there and click “Fetch new scrape information”. You should be good to go for right now though!
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Thanks for confirming about using the Facebook debugger that what I posted what correct.
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Well that’s confusing Happiness Engineer because that is one of the first things I did with no effect. Maybe I used the wrong debugger.
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(Nope, that’s exactly the one I used. And it’s worked before. But this time, it didn’t. At least not for me.)
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Running it through the debugger should in theory work. If it doesn’t, definitely let us know.
@Timethief – Thanks for the help! Sorry I missed the initial suggestion. It was indeed the debugger all along!
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