When sharing on pintrest, how to control which graphic is pulled

• 

  hbullions · Member · Jan 28, 2014 at 3:36 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  How do you control which graphic is pulled when a person pins your post?

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

• 

  eurello · Staff · Jan 28, 2014 at 9:41 pm

  • Copy link

  Hi there,

  When you click a Pinterest sharing button below a post or page, all images in the post or page open up, and then the reader can select which of those to pin. You can try it out on your own site and see what it looks like.

• 

  hbullions · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 2:20 am

  • Copy link

  When I went to pin my Valentine’s Day card holder to my pintrest site, it picked the graphic for me and I wasn’t able to change it. I unpinned it and used my “pin-it” button from my toolbar on my browser.

  So I wanted to know if that was a wordpress thing and what I could do to make sure a good picture showed up rather than the one that was randomly picked. I wanted the front of the card to be chosen, not that back?

• 

  eurello · Staff · Jan 29, 2014 at 5:01 pm

  • Copy link

  Hi there,

  Ok, I see. It look like if you choose the “official buttons” button style, that Pinterest button only offers you one image. If you choose the Icon + Text button style, it opens all images in the post on a Pinterest board:
  https://livelaughandcry.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing

  You could try switching to Icon + Text and see if you like that just as well. If not, try setting the image you want to be selected as a large featured image for the post, by following these directions:
  Featured Images

  I think Pinterest should prioritize a featured image.