Untitled Theme – Can't Select Image That Gets Displayed When Shared on Facebook

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  officialgaetano100 · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 5:49 pm

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  Greetings,

  I am trying to figure out how to specify social metadata for my blog posts. I am using the “Untitled Theme” and need help. I’ve been banging my head against the wall making zero progress.

  I understand how to set featured images, but that featured image is not the one that gets displayed when I share my blog posts on Facebook/Twitter.

  Can someone please help?

  Thanks!

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 5:50 pm

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  Hi there,

  Know that we have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks 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.

  See http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  Re: Facebook
  Sometimes these help and sometimes they don’t
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

  Facebook Image Thumbnail

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  officialgaetano100 · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 3:51 pm

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  Ok makes sense. Thanks for your help!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 5:46 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 4, 2016 at 4:42 pm

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  I understand how to set featured images, but that featured image is not the one that gets displayed when I share my blog posts on Facebook/Twitter.

  In theory it should be, as long as it meets those services’ minimum sizes for sharing thumbnails. Could you provide links to two or three examples of posts where that isn’t the case?