Are you frustrated with Facebook?
Irritated every time you click the share button and Facebook chooses the wrong picture to post?
Me too!
What’s this all about? Apparently, from what I’ve been able to find out, Facebook controls this in an effort to stop people from changing legit articles by adding fake pictures.
Huh?
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of the same picture posting every time I click share. So, I’ve discovered a workaround. Well, works most of the time.
Instead of clicking on the share button, try this.
- First copy your post address. ( https:// )
- Open your Facebook page.
- Paste the post address in Facebook.
The link should show default picture with arrows so you can select a different image.
If this doesn’t work, you may need to SCRAPE/DEBUG your Facebook.
Click on this link – FACEBOOK DEBUG
After you click the Debug Button go a little lower and SCRAPE your website.
Click the SCRAPE AGAIN button and this clears the default image from your Facebook.
Let me know if this has helped. Even if you don’t post a lot on Facebook you still may want to Debug/Scrape your website. Just another part of website housecleaning.
Did this change anything?
Have you ever used the Debug on Facebook?
Did I confuse you more? I hope not.
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Thanks Jean.. my posts are linked directly so when live they go automatically to FB, LInkedIn and Twitter.. but I have been doing individually for the boost posts a few hours later.. very good workaround.
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I was using auto too but became frustrated with the image selection.
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Reblogged this on BOOK CHAT and commented:
Jean Cogdell makes selecting the picture for your post on FB easy-peasy!
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Thanks for this Jean! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Check out this great post from Jean’s Writing blog on how to select the picture you want for your post.
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Trying this and sharing! 🙂 Thank you for the post.
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Thanks Bette, hope FB doesn’t change things again.
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Reblogged this on Claire Plaisted – Indie Author and commented:
Selecting an image for your post.
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If you’re blogging from WordPress, you can set the ‘featured image’.
But from what I hear, the default image is going to be the largest picture on the page. If you’ve resized them on the page, but they were originally different sizes, try resizing them BEFORE uploading them to the site.
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That’s true to an extent. I don’t like the featured image because that messes up my WP post. Also, there is a size requirement for FB, anything too small won’t be picked up.
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So true. I’ve been having issues because one can’t size the featured image correctly for use as a header image, square preview, FB preview, and WP reader preview.
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Reblogged this on When Angels Fly.
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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Facebook has been preventing me from changing my global side photo on my WordPress website. I tried all the work
arounds and scraping over and over. We’ve disabled the Facebook plugin and are hoping it will work now. Haven’t had time to test it. Nord where my theme was developed did send another plugin to try. I need my IT son for that. I’ve wondered if other people were having similar problems.
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Yes and it’s frustrating. So far this work around is working for me. Fingers crossed.
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That’s the only way I share pages on Facebook.
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Me too now. The button only irritates me.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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