Image on Shared Posts

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  kimbuckbiotech · Member · Sep 13, 2016 at 7:41 pm

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  Hello,
  When I share my blog posts on other platforms my profile photo shows up rather than my featured photo. What settings should I use in order for my featured photo to show up when my post is shared?
  Thanks!
  Kim

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  timethief · Member · Sep 13, 2016 at 7:48 pm

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  Hi there,

  We have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks 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.

  Please read Images in Publicize http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize
  Featured images https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/

  Facebook debugger
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  Facebook image thumbnail

  Facebook Image Thumbnail

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  kimbuckbiotech · Member · Sep 13, 2016 at 8:08 pm

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  Thank you. I’ll check out the links you shared.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2016 at 5:28 pm

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  You’re welcome.