[Michael]

Perhaps - I had thought that it could have been a bug in SEO Framework since the plug-in addresses the featured image. The problem actually started while the plug-in was active, not just after it was removed (I deactivated it to see if it fixed the problem initially). I would think the issue would be widespread in that case but my Google-fu doesn't find anyone bringing it up with regards to SEO Framework. Perhaps I had a unique conflict.

But - all good! I wasn't married to SEO Framework and Yoast does what I need (including fixing the issue) so I'm set.

Thanks again for the detective work!

[Michael]

A quick update: I never could figure out why the featured images stopped appearing in shares a few weeks ago. I went back and forth with my host for a week (they were very patient and accommodating) but the cause remained a mystery.

However, I installed Yoast and used the settings described above. This has restored featured images in my shares. So it seems all is okay now — though I'd still like to know why it broke in the first place.

Thanks for all of the help!

[Michael]

Thanks so much for the thorough look. Unfortunately, disabling plug-ins doesn't change the behavior.

I feel like the Facebook scrape error message is key: "The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags." I did some research on this. One suggestion was to purge the Cloudfare cache, which I did but no joy. Another opinion was that this is an issue the hosting provider should address. I am contacting my host -- I will update this thread if a solution is provided.

Thanks again.

[Michael]

This is the featured image for the post we are looking at: https://8sided.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/indie-music-concert-P.png (the featured image is not in the post itself. this is something I've always done.) It is 4104 by 2736 pixels.

As you see here, it is selected as the featured image for this post:

I have been using the Genesis Framework since July 1 and only started having this problem 4+ weeks ago. Before the featured images always behaved as expected and showed up in shares. I am not doing anything different with the images that I know of. My post today — https://8sided.blog/the-seven-book-challenge/ - also shares on social media without the featured image appearing.

Thank you for looking into this. Let me know if I can provide any more info.

[Michael]

Hi, Anita.

Here's the share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/qburns/status/1183769619506630657

Here it is on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigbsnyder_albums-singles-and-setting-fan-expectations-activity-6589619217966907392-DtLu

And here it is on my Facebook testing page, where it's pulling post and site images but ignoring my designated featured image (different than the two seen there): http://bit.ly/2VLlgMv

This is the behavior for all of my recent posts for the last month, not just this one.

Thanks!

[Michael]

Hi - I am having this same problem. I'm using the Modern Studio Pro theme. About six weeks ago I noticed that my featured images would not show in social media shares. If an image is in the post itself, that's scraped by Facebook and used as the 'share' image but not the featured image (I often use a different image for the featured image). Twitter and LinkedIn don't show images at all. For example (from a post of mine shared on LinkedIn yesterday):

I've deactivated any plug-ins that have a connection to the featured image (such as The SEO Framework) but the problem persists. Has anyone found a solution? This is frustrating as, like many of us, I rely on social shares to generate blog traffic.

Thanks!

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