Can't change Facebook thumbnail

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  1. jessica1

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    I have issues when trying to share posts and other information from my website to facebook. So if I am trying to share from my site to facebook, a lot of the time, the photo is not the correct photo associated with the post.

    I also am unable to change the thumbnail picture that facebook associates with my url. Is this a meta tag issue? I have tried an Opengraph plug in but this did not help. Thank you
     
  2. Gourav

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    Hello,

    Go to header.php present in your theme directory and add the code given below

    Code:
     <link rel="image_src" href="image of the page" />
    <meta property="og:title" content="Enter your  title" />
    <meta property="og:site_name" content="Enter your site name" />
    <meta property="og:image" content="Enter your image address here" />
    <meta property="og:description" content="Enter your description text here" />
    *There is no need to put anything in first line
    *In second line put your Title
    *In third line enter site name or any thing else that you want to show there
    *In fourth line put image address
    *In fifth line put description text.

    sending image for reference

    2014-04-17_1311.png


    Also check the link given below
    http://davidwalsh.name/facebook-meta-tags



    Note:- These changes take some time to show changes in your Facebook page. But you can check your the website url in the [debugger](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug). It should re-scrape with the new parameters.



    Thanks & Regards
    Gourav Shrivastava
     
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    Hello this has helped to a certain degree as it has fixed the old unwanted images from appearing however I still have a problem with getting the "Featured Image" of my post to show up when I share a post from my website to Facebook. Now I get the static image that I set up in the above tip.
    How do I get the post's featured image from the website instead? I don't want the same image each time I share something to Facebook if that makes sense. Thank you
     

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