og:image is not correct on jetpack social

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    mabux99 · Member ·

    I am using jetpack social to post to Twitter and Facebook. But the og:image is not the one I am specifying in the post. How do I fix it?

    Site is hectorlikes.com.

    FB is https://www.facebook.com/hectorlikes28

    Twitter is https://twitter.com/hector_likes28

    FB sharing debugger is showing https://i0.wp.com/hectorlikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/icononly_transparent_nobuffer-1.png?fit=12801032&ssl=1

    But that is not the image i am sharing on the post. how do i fix?

    WP.com: Yes
    Jetpack: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

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    mabux99 · Member ·

    It was working till about a day or two ago… nothing changed on the WP.com end.

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    mabux99 · Member ·

    Fixed FB… deactivated Rank Math SEO and now its working like before

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Glad to hear that you managed to sort out the issue. Just a heads up that you may need to use the Facebook debugger if Facebook is not picking up after you’ve updated the featured image. You can see how to do that here: https://wordpress.com/support/facebook-image-thumbnail/#image-thumbnail-problems-faq

    Feel free to let us know if there’s anything else you need and we’ll be happy to help.

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    wenpeiganrot · Member ·

    I think there is a BUG related to how WP.com together with Jetpack decide what image to pick in OG:Image metadata.

    I have similar problem on Linkedin. When sharing my WP homepage URL on Linkedin, it did not show the Feature Image but some random icon from my media library. I contacted wordpress.com support, they answered me “it is the social media company choosing the image, and there is nothing we can do from WP.com’s end”.

    But when I checked with Linkedin, and according to its post-inspector, (https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector), it says, you CAN control which image to display by provide a metadata tag for the og:image in the page’s head section. For example: <meta name=”image” property=”og:image” content=”place your image URL here”>

    So I go back to check the source code of my homepage (simply use the browser-inspect source). From the source code of my website, I found exact the line created by wordpress or Jetpack under the section of <!– Jetpack Open Graph Tags –> It pointed to a random image and Linkedin did picked up that one.

    Therefore, WP customer support’s answer isn’t quite right.
    The question is, why WP picked a random image as the og:image?
    shouldn’t WP picked the “Featured Image” instead?

    I did a bit search from this forum, Apparently, there are quite a few questions about the random OG:Image since 7, 8 years ago.

  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hey @wenpeiganrot

    Thanks for reaching out.

    So I go back to check the source code of my homepage (simply use the browser-inspect source). From the source code of my website, I found exact the line created by wordpress or Jetpack under the section of <!– Jetpack Open Graph Tags –> It pointed to a random image and Linkedin did picked up that one.

    What’s the homepage of your site?

    Has that image since been updated in the site?

    Many thanks.

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