Why does "featured photo" now change my header photo?

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  paradigmchangeinmedicine · Member · Oct 18, 2014 at 3:45 pm

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  I am using the 2010 theme. In the past, when I chose a featured photo, it just told Facebook which picture to display. Now, when I pick a featured photo, it changes the wide photo at the top of the theme, which of course I don’t want. What happened?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 4:06 am

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  Hi Lisa,

  I’m a bit confused. Can you please explain what you mean by this:

  Now, when I pick a featured photo, it changes the wide photo at the top of the theme, which of course I don’t want. What happened?

  Are you talking about Facebook’s end? or your actual WordPress.com site?

  I just checked your latest post in the Facebook Developer tools and everything looks right as seen here:

  

  That’s what you should see when you share on Facebook.

  If you are talking about your actual site, can you explain how it’s related to sharing on Facebook? Is your header image changing sizes every time you share on Facebook?

  Let me know! Thank you!

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  paradigmchangeinmedicine · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 5:23 am

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  I just changed the featured photo. In the past, doing this would just pick a photo for Facebook. Now the featured photo can be seen at the top of the blog page (the rocks against the blue sky).

  http://livingcleaninadirtyworld.me/?p=8941&shareadraft=544289dc0243f

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 6:07 am

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  Hi Lisa,

  Thanks for the screenshot! So this is actually what is supposed to happen as seen in the Twenty Ten support guide here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyten/

  Here is the part that explains this:

  You can even use a different custom header image for each post by including a Featured Image when you publish a new post.

  So the reason some featured images show up and some don’t is based on the size of the image.

  If it’s above 940 px wide, the featured image should show up when you view the post. For example in this post the featured image is only 200 px wide:

  http://livingcleaninadirtyworld.me/2014/08/11/using-a-pulse-test/

  Therefore it doesn’t appear at the top. But for this post the featured image is 1024 px wide:

  A Mold Avoidance Sabbatical in the Moab Desert

  For that post you can see that the header changes to the featured image.

  So if you no longer want that then I would make sure the featured image is a smaller image.

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  paradigmchangeinmedicine · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 6:49 am

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  Okay, that makes sense. I will use a smaller picture. Thanks!

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 6:55 am

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  You’re very welcome.

  Happy Blogging!