Setting og:image in header

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  tmurrayxsolla · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 10:24 pm

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  Hi,

  We are trying to set og:image in our blog posts so Facebook displays the proper image when we share it. My solution (in wordpress.org sites) has always been
  1) a plugin to handle it
  2) setting Featured Image

  However, there appears to be no way to do this. WordPress.com is automatically generating the necessary meta-tags in an arbitrary order, and it’s very frustrating: view-source:http://blog.xsolla.com/2015/03/23/xsolla-miniclip-integration-35-revenue-increase/. So it is an issue with WordPress, not Facebook.

  Is there some sort of tag I need to place in the proper image, or some sort of site option I need to enable? Let me know. Thanks,
  -Tom

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 10:29 pm

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  Here is your detailed theme description page link https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/chunk/

  Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):

  The main column width is 580.
  The custom header image is 800 by 140.

  Go to Dashboard → Appearance → Header to upload your header image. http://tmurrayxsolla.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header

  Here is a link to the relevant support doc for setting a custom header image https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/custom-header-image/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 10:30 pm

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  Know that you cannot set any externally hosted image as a header image on a WordPress.COM hosted blog. You must upload the image into your Media Library.

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  tmurrayxsolla · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 11:15 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestion, but this isn’t what I need. I need a way to tell WordPress which image, per-post, to use in the og:image meta tag. This will tell Facebook which image to use.

  Currently wordpress is creating a metatag for each image in the post, and Facebook is left to arbitrarily choose whatever image it feels comfortable with. This is incorrect. We need to be able to set the image ourself to maximize presentation.