Page icon on Facebook share

  • Unknown's avatar

    Hi ~ I’ve got my page all set to share with the world! The only problem I’m having is that when I try to share the page on my Facebook wall, the link appears with two blank thumbnails. My page has a big, beautiful header and I would like that to be thumbnail when I share the link, but I’ll take just about anything at this point.

    I went to Facebook’s Open Graph Object Debugger and received this info:

    “Extraneous Property Objects of this type do not allow properties named ‘article:publisher’.

    Parser Mismatched Metadata The parser’s result for this metadata did not match the input metadata. Likely, this was caused by the data being ordered in an unexpected way, multiple values being given for a property only expecting a single value, or property values for a given property being mismatched. Here are the input properties that were not seen in the parsed result: ‘article:publisher'”

    Is it possible for me to fix this, or am I doomed to share my site without a thumbnail image?

    Thanks!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar

    Just an update: after further sleuthing, I understand the problem is that the Facebook “scrape” for open graph tags yields the following for my site’s image – <meta property=”og:image” content=”https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg”>

    I don’t suppose there’s any way to modify that on a basic WordPress-hosted site (is there?), but is there a workaround?

  • Unknown's avatar

    Can you try uploading a Blavatar? Sometimes Facebook will pull that as an image when sharing your site. Take a look at the link for further instructions!

    Let me know if you have any questions with this!

  • Unknown's avatar

    The Happiness Engineers and WordPress community at large never cease to amaze me.

    Needless to say, yes, your suggestion worked! Thanks as always!
    ~A

  • Unknown's avatar

    Perfect! You’re very welcome!

    Happy Blogging :)

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