Selecting photo to display on Facebook

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  haveitathome · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 6:39 pm

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  When someone clicks “like” on my blog, a random photo is selected as the thumbnail to display on the FB post. I would like to specify which photo I want as the display. How do I do that?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 6:40 pm

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  Does this help? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/thumbnails-on-facebook?replies=2#post-590489

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  haveitathome · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 8:20 pm

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  Not really. The photo that I would like to have displayed IS in my post, the problem is that I don’t have control over which one displays and my question is, how can I get to that point?

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  designsimply · Member · Aug 12, 2011 at 8:45 pm

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  I’m pretty sure having an option of which image to use like you have described is set on the Facebook side, but I will check up on it.

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  designsimply · Member · Aug 12, 2011 at 10:36 pm

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  If you are using a theme that supports featured images, you can set a featured image and that one should get used by Facebook. Other than that, there is not a way to specify which photo Facebook will use and usually the first image embedded in a post or page that is large enough (at least 50×50 px) will be used.