Publicize picture selection algorithm

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  shirleyfinzi · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 6:44 am

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  I understand that I cannot control the picture that will appear in FB using Publicize.

  Still, I’ll be happy to understand a little the algorithm used by Publicize for the picture selection.
  Is it the size of the picture? The order in the post? Something else?
  I sometimes have few pictures in the post and it would help if I could plan ahead which picture will show up eventually.

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

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 11:32 am

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  Hi. Does this help?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#troubleshooting

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  shirleyfinzi · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 11:40 am

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  Thanks, but not really… unless I missed something there. It says:
  “•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.

  But actually it publishes one picture in FB – and I cannot guess in advance which one will it be.

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  limberation · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 11:59 am

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  If you manually publish to FB, you can select the picture.

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  shirleyfinzi · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 12:07 pm

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  This is true, but then I miss the nice features of Publicize…