Publish on facebook with unique or blog picture instead of the "W"

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  marcoboehme · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm

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  Hi,

  when i share a blogpost from e at facebook, there is only this “w” in the content below my post. Is it possible to show there my picture? For a normal wordpress installation i use “unique image” plugin to solve that, but for the wordpress.com platform it doesn’t work… :-(

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 6:49 pm

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  We have no control over which images Facebook chooses to display and we have no control over how long it takes for the image caches at Facebook to be flushed. What follows may ot may not be where they are at today as they make change frequently.
  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.

  The solution to your issue may be found if you upload a blavatar image.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/

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  marcoboehme · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm

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  Hi,

  thanks for your fast help. Unfortunatelly it doesn’t work… i have already chosen my gravatar, but when i click on “share” only that “W” appears…

  http://marcoboehme.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/kulturwandel-in-unternehmen/

  Any idea?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 7:03 pm

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  If you did upload a blavatar then do know it will not display immediately. It usually takes a couple of days to display. Aside from what I posted above, I have no other ideas to offer.

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  hakanertr · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 7:16 pm

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  I don’t see any pictures in your posts. So, facebook picks to default “W”ordpress image for sharing. I think, you can’t change it. Just add featured images in your post like timethief’s said.

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  hnsaifi · Member · Jul 3, 2012 at 7:17 pm

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  The solution to your issue may be found if you upload a blavatar image.http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/

  Change your blavatar not gravatar.When I changed it on my test blog it appeared in seconds. That will sort it out. BTW when you share something on facebook there’s an option to choose which image/s to be shown. But the wordpress icon remains there if you have not chosen a blavatar.

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  marcoboehme · Member · Jul 4, 2012 at 8:32 am

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  Thanks!