Share post to FB and no image appears

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  smithkillian · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:02 pm

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  I have tried my other blog (http://barbarastroud.wordpress.com) and when I share to FB images appear fine… however when I try to share a post http://anglinsmith.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/shannon-smith-hughes-transitions-oct-4-18-2013/ to Facebook it will not pull any images. Can you help? I tried setting a Feature Image, that didn’t work. I tried deleting the last image and adding back, that did not work…
  Theme is MY LIFE…

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  smithkillian · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:03 pm

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  Note: The previous post (about sculptor Darrell Davis) when I tried to share that today, it DID show an image, so its just the post that published yesterday that will not pull an image…

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  timethief · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:08 pm

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  I’m sorry but when using Publicize, note that 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

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  bstroud1 · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:21 pm

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  It has to be a problem with WordPress… it was working fine until yesterday. Other posts work, other themes work, but not MY LIFE and not yesterday’s post. I realize we have no choice of what images appear, but if you have an image on your blog it will ALWAYS give you a few to choose from. You can tell there is a problem, when you click the Facebook tab you see it try to catch and it blips, unlike when you try to share a post that everything is working…

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  timethief · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:25 pm

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  What makes you say it’s WordPress.com that’s the issue when clearly it isn’t. Facebook software does the image selection. Have you made the same remarks to Facebook support?

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  smithkillian · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:38 pm

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  Yes timethief, I have made the same remarks to facebook support… this is for an art gallery (business)… so the post loses its oomph with no image… thank you for understanding.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:44 pm

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  I understand that there is nothing we can do for you aside from what I posted above. :( Hopefully, you understand that too.

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  smithkillian · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:50 pm

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  Another thing I’ve noticed (whether connected or not??) is that when I set a Feature Image… there is no change in the way the image appears when I preview. Normally it becomes larger… is that not normally the case?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 2, 2013 at 4:52 pm

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  Have you read the Images Resizing sticky post at the head of the support forums? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/images-resizing?replies=4