Twitter Sharing Link Text

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    carolinespence · Member ·

    Hi,
    I have the css plugin on my wordpress.com blog so i can change titles etc but can’t write code and am struggling with the following problem. When anyone clicks on the Facebook share button at the bottom of a page they simply get images (sometimes!) that are on the page. I want to override this so that it always shows the blog icon/picture as the Facebook link. is there a way to do this?
    thanks for your help
    Caroline

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    carolinespence · Member ·

    sorry, wrote twitter in the title but meant Facebook, good start!!!

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    jameswelbes · Member ·

    Hi Caroline,

    I’m not sure what you’re asking. I only see a twitter button.

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    carolinespence · Member ·

    sorry didn’t explain myself very well,
    so at the bottom of the following page

    https://theanthrozoologist.wordpress.com/survey – there are share links for people to post on twitter and Facebook etc. For the Facebook share link, when you click on it, it uses a picture that was on the website ages ago. Ive tried to change this by running the page through face books object debugger > when I’ve done this at the bottom of the page under the title “When shared, this is what will be included” it shows the correct image (even though further up the page it says og image not defined will use another etc) however when i click the button that says see this in the share dialog it opens up a new page that shows the old image.

    sorry if thats not super clear, tis a bit convoluted to explain :)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Hi, when I look in the head section of the HTML for your Survey page, this is what I am seeing:
    <meta content="https://theanthrozoologist.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/img_0926new1.jpg" property="og:image">
    which is the image at the top of your site.

    There are some FB issues with image size (px x px) and image file size that can cause FB to choke and not serve up the intended image.

    To see if this is the issue, I would suggest taking that image and resize it down to around 800px in width. This shouldn’t cause any issues on your site since the image in the content is being shown at 481px in width. You can resize from within the page editor. Click on the image, click the edit button and then edit the image and resize it. Alternately you can do it in your computer in an image editing program and then upload the image and replace the one you now have in the page with the new image.

    See if that takes care of the FB issue. You may have to run things through the debugger at FB again.

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    carolinespence · Member ·

    Hi, thanks for your help. tried this with no success. its almost like FB is stuck on the old version for some reason.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Hmmm, let’s try something else. Make sure you have a copy of that image (the one that FB is using) on your computer. Go into your Media Library and delete that image permanently. If you are using that image in a different post or page, you could re-upload that image with a different file name and the replace the image in the post or page.

    My theory is, if the image isn’t in your media library FB can’t use it unless they have it cached somewhere outside of WordPress.com.

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    carolinespence · Member ·

    hi,
    i tried this and unfortunately it didn’t work. however almost two weeks later FB has miraculously and randomly updated the image.
    thanks for your help though, much appreciated :)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    …however almost two weeks later FB has miraculously and randomly updated the image.

    Ah, that tells me that it is an issue at Facebook and something not in our control. I was thinking this may have been the case.

    The important thing is it has sorted itself out. Let us know if you have additional questions or problems.

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