Title: Image shown when sharing
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Image shown when sharing

 *  Resolved [tennischicky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tennischicky/)
 * (@tennischicky)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/)
 * How can I get the image that is shared w my post to always be the first image?
   I don’t want to do a featured image b/c I don’t want an image before title. It
   seems right now it just picks random pics when ” add to any” or I copy the permalink
   to my Facebook page. 🎾🎾
    [http://www.tennischicky.com](http://www.tennischicky.com)
   Thanks! For example if you look at my most recent post when I share it the third
   pic down gets shared w post

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 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/#post-7405086)
 * I would recommend installing this plugin on your site: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-thumb-fixer/](https://wordpress.org/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.
 *  Thread Starter [tennischicky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tennischicky/)
 * (@tennischicky)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/#post-7405104)
 * 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 🙂
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/#post-7405137)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [tennischicky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tennischicky/)
 * (@tennischicky)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/#post-7405147)
 * Ok so that works, just have to make sure the featured image is a certain size
   or else it chooses a random pic Thanks 🙂
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-shown-when-sharing/#post-7405164)
 * Sure thing! Thanks for sharing that tip here.

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