One of the problems I face while sharing a link of my blogger post on facebook or linkedin is that the thumbnail shared is my picture (which is the only picture on the page). I would prefer no thumbnail being shared.I tried using
<meta property="og:image" content=""
I.e the content is kept as blank, yet it shows a thumbnail. How do i set it to no picture?
You can't. Facebook/Linkedin will crawl your site and decide on it's own what images to offer the user. The og:image meta tag is just a suggestion and not a directive.
The only way to share without image is for the user to remove it.
Update: there is another way. You could detect (on the server) FB/LinkedIns crawler and serve them HTML that does not contain any images. That way they wouldn't have anything to display (just text). I don't know if that's possible on blogger. And if you go down this path, check FB/LinkedIn's TOS if this is allowed (doing this with google, for instance, will get you banned).
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I've seen it several times on my facebook timeline where the image of a shared link is not in the post itself. Example:
https://www.facebook.com/BarakaBits/posts/1065758210116791 - Image has text on it.
screenshot
Here's the post itself: http://www.barakabits.com/2015/01/beauty-moroccos-diversity-captured-stunning-photo-series
Is this a hidden image? I'm using a wordpress blog, how can I do this? Do I need a special plugin?
Thank you in advance!
Wil
I don't know exactly what this site is doing, but you can suggest that Facebook use a specific image (not necessarily one found on the page) by using the og:image Open Graph tag. For example, something like this would go in the <head> portion of your site:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.barakabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Moroccos-faces-featured-6.jpg">
As you can see from the site you referenced, you can have multiple og:image tags, and the user will be able to choose which one is displayed in the post.
Here's Facebook's guide to Open Graph tags: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
I have no clue why the image is not featuring ,
Here is a link, but the same is happening with other wordpress pages..
http://www.alcireland.ie/find-a-consultant/
<meta content="http://www.alcireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/home-map.jpg" property="og:image">
http://www.alcireland.ie/external-links/
<meta content="http://www.alcireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/logo.png" property="og:image">
Are there certain criteria to be met that Im not meeting? I dont necessarily want the image to actually be on the page, I just want it to be included when the page is shared.
Two things: First the image is too small. Second, Facebook caches the pages so it will need scraping again before any changes are reflected on facebook.
I forced a new scrape using their tool which you should use for checking OG properties:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Before I forced a rescrape it was reporting that it couldn't detect the og:image property, now it is reporting that the image declared is too small:
"Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that's at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image 'http://www.alcireland.ie/wp-content/themes/surgetheme/images/logo.png' will be used instead."
I was on Facebook, and thought to ask people to visit my website via a post. However when I pasted my website URL into the comment box, some other photo that is related to the Wordpress parent theme I'm using as a base theme showed up. How can I control what image of the site Faceboook see and relates to my website, instead of it just grabbing whatever it wants to grab?
You need to set the correct Open Graph tags.
Use this debugger to get more information: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
The specific open graph tag you are looking to set is og:image
Example:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.example.com/image_name.png" />
Another important note is that Facebook caches whatever it reads from the page (name, image, description, etc.), and the only way to reset the cache is to check the page using the debug tool I mentioned.
quick question:
one tiny prob i have is when i try to share a page from my site on facebook (for example:http://pent-house.co.il/index.php/sale/52-2013-12-12-13-41-40), i cannot see thumbnails for the gallery. i see only the logo :\
is there any way that i can share the photos throw facebook?
thank you very much and have a damm nice day! XD
i wanted to shar a pic but i dont have enough reputation
You have to set an og:image meta tag like this:
<meta property="og:image" content="THE LINK TO YOUR IMAGE"/>
In the <head> of your document otherwise facebook bot uses (usualy) the biggest images he can fin. On the example page you linked to the biggest one is the logo.
Once you have set the og:image meta tag don't forget to delete facebook's cache by entering your page url on this page so you can see the modifications you make.
More information about thos meta tags and open graph here
I have a like button that works and that takes the image I have specified through the following parameter and attaches to a user liking the post on there feed.
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.mysite.org/images/logo_50x50.gif" />
I basically want to use this image only for my users when they like an article, but when posting from a specific article "on my facebook site"..I want to be able to still select the images pulled up from that link. That doesn't happen. All I get right now is what I specified in my og:image parameter.
How would I achieve this?
You can't, you just told Facebook which image to use - it's supported to have multiple og:image tags but i'm not sure if which image to display is deterministic, random, or uses a picker like the system used when you don't specify an image