where do the images seen on Freshly Pressed come from?

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  goodflagbetsy · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 3:15 pm

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  hello;

  are the images seen on freshly pressed coming from the bloggers’ posts? or from their blog header (or some other global setting)?

  if they do come from actual posts, how do I set an image for it?

  thanks,
  gfb

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

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  dlager · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 3:41 pm

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  The pictures are chosen by wordpress.com, just like the post that are featured.

  more on freshly pressed:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/five-ways-to-get-featured-on-freshly-pressed/

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  goodflagbetsy · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 3:55 pm

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  I read that article but I didn’t see anything about the images that show up in freshly pressed.

  you suggested that they choose the pictures … are you suggesting that they get an image from your post and crop it themselves?

  thanks.

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  dlager · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 4:02 pm

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  Yes I am.
  in fact images are chosen to show in the WordPress Reader, is done by a computer progam, like scripts, or “bots”.

  I am not sure whether the images chosen for the freshly pressed page are chosen by wordpress employee humans or by computer.

  maybe someone else know that.

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  goodflagbetsy · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 4:32 pm

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  I’ve noticed that the images for freshly pressed are usually perfect … the eyes of a face are perfectly centered as an example. This makes me think that it is NOT a computer auto-cropping.

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  daisysprouts · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 5:34 pm

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  When my post was featured on FP, the image which appeared was a cropped version of the first image in that particular post.

  However, I’m not sure if it was chosen because it was first, or it was better quality among all of my images, or if it best represented the topic I wrote about. I’m guessing it might be a combination of all three, in the hope that the image will encourage people to click as much as the post title might.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  We bloggers have no control over which images are displayed and which sizes are displayed on global tag pages. Staff do all selection and we have no input into that decision making.