Image when sharing site

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  shanithornton · Member · Jun 1, 2015 at 12:30 pm

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  When I share my site on a social media platform (Facebook, LinkedIn) it is featuring a standard photo that came with the Oxygen theme. How can I display my logo image when the site is shared?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 5:44 pm

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  Hi there,

  When you share your site, it should use the blog picture/icon you uploaded in your site’s General Settings (your logo). That’s what we tell those sites to show along with the link to your site.

  On Facebook, you can check that information by pasting the link to your site in their debugger here:

  https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

  I just tried that, and now your site’s logo is showing up there. (Putting a link in Facebook’s debugger there is one way to encourage Facebook to grab the correct image for your site.)

  I’m not aware of a way to encourage LinkedIn or other sites to do that — it’s up to them to use the image WordPress.com sends them instead of a different image there. However, if you just added that logo to your site recently, other sites like LinkedIn should update to use that image over time. It just may take a bit longer for them to switch over to showing your logo there.

  Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)