Publicize to Facebook issue with images

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  dragonflywoman · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 9:41 pm

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  Hoping someone might be able to help with an issue I’ve been having. I use the Publicize feature to post notices about new blog posts to my Facebook page. It’s not a flawless connection – it disconnects from time to time, and I have to reestablish the connection when that happens – but I’ve generally been happy with it. However, recently when I post a blog post and it appears on Facebook thanks to Publicize, the images that “represent” the post on Facebook are being taken from my widgets (including a series of badges and images from the Flickr widget) and not the photos from the post itself. My photos are a big reason why people visit my blog, so I’m finding it frustrating that the images that are relevant to the post do not appear when a new post is publicized to Facebook. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Would love to hear some suggestions/get a solution!

  Thanks!

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  lorenzocaum · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 10:43 pm

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  The Facebook object debugger shows that its pulling the correct image in the post area:

  https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fthedragonflywoman.com%2F2013%2F11%2F27%2Fsummery%2F

  Could you try moving your Flickr widget from the left sidebar to the right sidebar?

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  dragonflywoman · Member · Nov 28, 2013 at 12:04 am

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  I deleted all my badges from the right sidebar because they were showing up on my publicized posts and I thought I could “force” the system to use the post photos instead by getting rid of them. After that, it started picking up the images from my Flickr widget from the left sidebar. I can try moving it, but consdering deleting the badges didn’t solve the problem, I doubt moving it is going to help…

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2013 at 12:09 am

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  @dragonflywoman
  You are not alone. I’m sorry but we cannot help with this. We have no control over the images that Facebook chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include. From: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/avalaible-facebook-thumbnail-issue?replies=7#post-1000734

  Read also: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  from: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861

  See here too https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pachyderm-theme-image-size-on-reader?replies=9#post-1349306

  And see this thread for more tips please > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-post-wont-publish-images-to-fb-but-was-previously?replies=8