photos when sharing to facebook

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    accidentalfosterer · Member ·

    Sorry – I’m a bit of a newbie to this. But I’ve been sharing my posts onto my facebook profile for a while now. It used to be that I could choose one of the pictures in the post to display next to the link that appeared on facebook. Now I only seem to have the option of displaying the main photo / my blog icon / profile photo / gravatar – not sure what you call it.

    Please could someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’m sorry but We cannot control which images Facebook uses or how frequently they clear their image caches. Moreover, they make changes frequently so I don’t know if the following still applies or not but here you go in case it does still apply:

    Only the first five images uploaded to a post (direct inclusion/gallery/slideshow) will be sent to Facebook. The images size has to be at least 200 x 200 pixels.
    To select which image will be used for things like Facebook Publicize, you can use a theme that supports featured images. If a featured image isn’t set or your theme doesn’t use featured images, then the code tries to pick the first image in the post or page. If no image is found, then the blavatar is used.

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