Hi, for some reason, I can never get my featured image to show up in Facebook meta data when sharing. If I add the picture to the actual article, it’ll show. When I scrape, the og:image will be the featured image but it’s never the image showed on Facebook.
Any suggestions?
Try the FB debugger tool.
I tried that. That’s what I meant when I said I scraped it.
Check the page for java errors if FB says no errors.
If the OG tag for image is set correctly, then they should grab the right one. You can look at your page source to verify the right image is set.
I often have issues with FB and have to use the ‘force refresh’ tool on each post at least couple times a day. Super annoying.
Not like we’re paying them to grab our stuff, so support is non-existant, sadly.
I know there was an issue with duplicate “image” tag in some versions of theme, so again check your page source for what is actually there to ensure no duplication, missing item, or bad file name, etc.
For example FB would have trouble with “my%20file%20name.jpg” —
they also have issues with png files it seems.
Hi,
@TechTris – You have to use WordPress SEO by Yoast, it adds og data on page. Check the page source for duplicate og data coming from another plugin, if you see for example two og:image parameters on the source check which plugin adds the second parameter.
Facebook uses a cache, after each modification you have to reset it from their debugger – https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ – just press the “Fetch new scrape information” button to reset the cache – http://screencast.com/t/uB7rcVia
If this doesn’t help please provide the url so we can take a look.
Thank you!
