No control over what image is featured in facebook post

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  madanjou · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 4:55 pm

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  I cannot control what image from my WordPress post will be publicized in Facebook. I don’t find the “featured image” button in the “Screen options” (Options de l’écran) menu on top of the dashboard (I’ve followed all indications). Recently, it features an image that’s not even included in the post! It’s frustrating. Thanks for your help.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:02 pm

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  I’m sorry but we cannot help with this. We have no control over the images that Facebook 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 see http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  and https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861

  See 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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  madanjou · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 6:16 pm

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  Thanks for your quick reply. So if I understand my theme does not support to select a “featured image”?