Use Blavatar for Facebook posts

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  tbeardx · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 7:27 pm

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  According to this:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/
  My Blavatar will is used as the thumbnail when posts are made to Facebook. That’s awesome. But here’s the problem. I want that to happen even if I have images or other media in my posts. Facebook is following the rules outlined in the link above and pulling the picture it chooses out of the post.

  Is there a way to work around this and tell Facebook to always use my Blavatar? Is there some code snippet or something I can use?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 7:28 pm

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  Please read these tips http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  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.

  Please see http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  and https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861

  See here too https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pachyderm-theme-image-size-on-reader?replies=9#post-1349306

  See this thread for more tips please > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-post-wont-publish-images-to-fb-but-was-previously?replies=8

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  tbeardx · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 8:25 pm

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  Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll take a look over the resources you provided. Hopefully there’s an answer in there.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 8:26 pm

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  The answer is that we have no control over which images they select to display.