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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Featured Image not showing on facebook

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Tagged: Facebook, featured image, link

  • This topic has 6 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 11 months ago by coralseait.
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  • March 9, 2015 at 9:42 am #143800
    PrintsCharming
    Member

    Hello there!

    I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a small issue. When I share this website on Facebook there is a blank space instead of a featured image. How do I set a featured image so it links correctly to Facebook?

    http://isaisland.com
    March 9, 2015 at 10:03 am #143806
    PrintsCharming
    Member

    OK found this article: http://www.efrennolasco.com/wordpress-how-to-fix-no-featured-thumbnail-issue-on-facebook-share/

    on how to set featured image. When I added to functions.php the site disappeared. NEED IMMEDIATE HELP!!!

    March 9, 2015 at 10:28 am #143812
    PrintsCharming
    Member

    OK Got it back online but image is still not showing up on Facebook. Installed "ALL IN ONE SEO" set featured image and still not working.

    March 9, 2015 at 8:18 pm #143869
    coralseait
    Member

    You may need to flush the facebook cache http://sarahmarshall.io/post/97000108533/how-to-clear-the-facebook-share-cache-or-update-a

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9026448/how-can-i-force-facebook-to-purge-its-cache-and-use-newer-meta-description-of-a


    Coral Sea IT

    March 16, 2015 at 7:54 am #144614
    PrintsCharming
    Member

    Used Facebook DeBugger and it worked great!

    April 28, 2015 at 9:37 am #149403
    pressdeamon
    Participant

    So how exactly did you use this plugin (Facebook DeBugger) to get this fixed? I installed the plugin but can't figure out where is its managing area or what it does. Did not fix my problem.

    I have always used Studio Press themes on pages I share on Facebook, then now just on this one site on the same server as the dozens of others (that work just fine) it won't pick up the featured image to show on FB. I changed the theme to other Genesis themes I use on other sites, but the problem persists...

    April 28, 2015 at 9:49 am #149405
    coralseait
    Member

    Hey There pressdeamon,

    We actually don't use a plugin, but the facebook debugging tools directly at Facebook to request a cache flush on their end.

    1) Visit here https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
    2) Add the URL you wish for facebook to 're-crawl / re-scrape'
    3) Click Debug
    4) Fetch new scrape information
    5) Now you should see updated scrape as well as OG status

    If this isn't working for you, then make sure you don't have any security plugins or hosting rules which may have accidentally banned FB IPs / hosts or your OpenGraph markup isn't flawed.


    Coral Sea IT

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