Wrong thumbnail description

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  tmfsilva · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 7:45 pm

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  Hi there! When I try to share my website in facebook, it appears a thumbnail with a wrong description (in my case, a resume of the last post). I do not want any description. How can i fix this? (My theme is Libre). Thank you in advance!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 7:51 pm

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  Not every theme has featured images; only some do. Your theme does NOT have them https://wordpress.com/themes/libre

  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.

  Please read Images in Publicize http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize
  Featured images https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/

  Facebook debugger
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
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  Facebook Image Thumbnail

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  tmfsilva · Member · Oct 22, 2016 at 12:41 pm

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  Ok, I have no control over the featured images in the libre theme, but what about descriptions in the thumbnail? I still do not have control about them? Thank you in advance

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 26, 2016 at 9:34 pm

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  Hi @timethief, while themes may not display featured images, the new editor allows folks to upload them for social sharing and other things.

  @tmfsilva when I share your website, I see this:
  “Polythene Pam
  flowing Lisbon October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 Teres”

  I would normally expect it to just say “Polythene Pam
  flowing Lisbon” because that is you site title and description, but it sounds like you’re seeing something else entirely.

  Can you maybe get a screenshot of what you see, then upload it to your media library?

  Take a Screenshot

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

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  Actually @tmfsilva it looks like the issue is that you do not have a tagline (which serves as your site description) at all. So Facebook is picking up what it can from the rest of the page.

  I was thinking “Flowing Lisbon” was your site description, but when I double checked your settings it was just a blog post.

  Please head to My Site > Customize > Site Identity and put something in the tagline area. You’ve already hidden the tagline, so nothing will show up on your website. But Facebook, Google, and other services will want to display some kind of description.