Title: Feature image
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Feature image

 *  [mariusveq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariusveq/)
 * (@mariusveq)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-image/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a simple theme, with simple posts, mostly videos. I installed the plugin
   and I have featured image on. My problem, when it generates the thumbnail image,
   it automaticaly post’s it in the post. So it’s something like:
 * Title post
    featured image embeded video
 * I want it to show up only the embeded video, and I need the image so when I post
   the link on Facebook to take the image.
 * Any idea how can I do that?
 * Thank you,
    Marius
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/)

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 *  [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
 * (@angio)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-image/#post-3279907)
 * Facebook decides based on the page content what to use as the image in the status
   update.
 * Your theme is most likely displaying featured images in posts. It may or may 
   not have an option to turn this off.
 * You can try this, set your featured image to `display:none;` then insert the 
   URL into facebook and see if it finds the hidden featured image.
 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-image/#post-3279908)
 * If you’re up for editing your theme, you can find the file responsible for the
   single post page ([this may help](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy))
   and then remove the section of code displaying the featured image. If you want
   it to still show for non-video posts, you could go a step further and just wrap
   the code in a conditional statement like
 *     ```
       <?php if( get_video_thumbnail() == null ) : ?>
       FEATURED IMAGE CODE HERE
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * As for the Facebook issue, you can use meta tags in the site’s source to tell
   sites which image to use for sharing. A quick search turned up [this plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/)
   which should do it for you.

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-image/#post-3279908)
 * Status: not resolved