Thumbnails and Facebook

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  lacation · Member · May 31, 2013 at 5:54 am

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  The thumbnails are not showing up in facebook
  I am posting automatically and I try to copy and past the link and the images from my post do not show up in the thumbnail. Instead it is the WordPress logo. How do I fix that?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 31, 2013 at 1:51 pm

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  Hi there – it looks like Facebook is not properly recognizing that the images in your post are large enough to be used as the thumbnail, so it’s using the WordPress logo instead:

  Provided og:image is not big enough. Please use an image that’s at least 200×200 px. Image ‘http://s2.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/highlander-comments/images/wplogo.png?m=1289230950g’ will be used instead.

  The three images from your post that are being provided to Facebook as possible thumbnails are well over their 200 X 200 pixel minimum, so this looks like a technical issue at Facebook’s end.

  I will also bring it to our developers to see if there’s anything that can be done at our end.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 31, 2013 at 2:11 pm

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  Our developers have confirmed that this is a technical issue at Facebook’s end. As a workaround, if you want to share links manually, first running each post’s URL through the Facebook debugger does seem to fix the thumbnails, even though you’ll see a false error message that the thumbnail is too small.

  For example, I ran this URL – http://lacation.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/hanksy-opening/ – through the tool I linked above.

  Then I shared the link manually on Facebook, and the three image from your post were correctly provided as thumbnails, as you can see here:

  http://cl.ly/image/3s2g3406051m

  This will work for manual sharing, but not for automated sharing through the Publicize tool.

  If we get any news on this issue, I will keep you posted. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.