Thumbnails on Facebook

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  brandonjwood · Member · Apr 15, 2011 at 6:29 pm

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  Is there a way to have a default thumbnail picture in wordpress as the default picture that will show up on a page like Facebook as the thumbnail? Usually, the thumbnail on facebook when I post a link, will be the picture in my blog post. However, I’d like to use a default picture when I share my links on Facebook to my blog.

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  airodyssey · Member · Apr 16, 2011 at 11:46 am

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  Hi. There is a point in the troubleshooting section of Publicize about images on Facebook. Apparently you can only use images you actually publish on your post:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#troubleshooting

  I have never tried this solution before, but what if you publish an image on your post but don’t display it? (Make sure the image respects the minimum dimensions stated in the link above)
  <div style="display:none;"><img src="IMAGE URL HERE" /></div>

  (Idea freely adapted from: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/reblogging-and-countermeasures/ )