I would recommend installing this plugin on your site: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/facebook-thumb-fixer/
By default, there isn’t any code added by Ignite to handle how Facebook selects images since this is better left to a plugin. The Facebook Thumb Fixer plugin will add the code needed to your site to let you tell Facebook which image to use as the main thumbnail.
It seems I have to have a featured image or a default image that would be used for all posts for this plugin. I simply want to use the first image of my post. Without the plugin it seems so random, a pic was pulled from a page to be used for a shared post. Is there no way to default to always use the first pic. I don’t use a featured image since I don’t want an image above my Title. Thanks, sorry if this is annoying 🙂
No problem, I think I have a good solution for this.
What you could do is assign a Featured Image for the post and use that plugin, but then hide the Featured Image with this CSS:
.featured-image {
display: none;
}
Then you can basically use the Featured Image as your Facebook image, but it won’t show visually on the site at all.
Ok so that works, just have to make sure the featured image is a certain size or else it chooses a random pic Thanks 🙂
Sure thing! Thanks for sharing that tip here.
