Picture attached to sharing link

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  takeyouwithmeblog · Member · Feb 15, 2016 at 11:06 am

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  Hi, when I copy the link to a blog post on Facebook it features a picture I’m not happy with as the preview picture. How can I change this as I tried the ‘feature image’ option and this doesn’t seem to help.

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  stefmattana · Staff · Feb 15, 2016 at 2:24 pm

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  Hi there,

  There is no direct control over which image Facebook uses unfortunately, and sometimes it doesn’t pick up any images – or the wrong one.
  That could be caused by Facebook’s own requirements regarding image file type and image size, as stated also in here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/

  However, if you have a featured image on your post, the blog can suggest Facebook to use that image. Here’s how to set a feature image on your post: https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/.

  Try with feature images and let me know how it goes!

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  takeyouwithmeblog · Member · Feb 15, 2016 at 2:26 pm

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  Thank you :) I did try the feature image but it didn’t work, which is what lead me to here haha Thought I was on the wrong track with that. Thanks for your help anyway!

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  stefmattana · Staff · Feb 15, 2016 at 3:00 pm

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  You’re welcome! I’m sorry you didn’t manage to solve this issue but there’s really anything that can be done more than that unfortunately.

  I noticed that another sneaky trick is to place at least one image on the post along with a featured image (if they’re different that’s even better).
  I see your posts are full of picture as well so I think you did the best possible :)

  Happy blogging anyway!

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  takeyouwithmeblog · Member · Feb 15, 2016 at 3:05 pm

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  Cheers!