When I Share Links On My Facebook Business Page Of My Blog Posts That Have Photos - Thumbnails From Blog Posts Do Not Appear | General Thesis Questions | Forum

Rick,

I have been manually putting some of my blog post links on my Facebook business page. The links show up fine and I can do the introductory text, but no photo shows up even though there was a photo/thumbnail in the original post. I want to be able to have the picture accompany the text.  I went on the Thesis forum and saw other people with this issue but I could not see a clear answer.

In my research, I am reading about "open graph" but I am lost about it. It seems there are Facebook SEO benefits to it as well as possibly helping with this thumbnail issue – unless of course I am reading it wrong.

I am using "Add this" for my social media buttons. I had been using "Facebook Likes You" but deleted it because it had redundant social media button components that could not be turned off when used alongside "Add This".

I tried "Facebook Like Thumbnail" plugin but it did not seem to do anything. I also tried an "open graph" plugin but it did not seem to do anything either. 

I am now using "Facebook Social Plugin Widget" to successfully put the Facebook Like Box on my blog.

Rick, do you have any solutions? There are many open graph plugins and Facebook automatically post your website posts to your Facebook page plugins. I am overwhelmed trying to figure out what will help to solve my problems and enhance the social media experience.

Thanks for your help.

Shari

Thanks Rick.

A video demonstration would be awesome! Unfortunately I will be working on Wednesday at Live Answers time. Can you do the video demonstration anyway? I will be so happy to watch it later.

Shari

Hi Rick,

I know you're real busy…but I was wondering if you were able to record that video demonstration and put it on Live Answers?

I keep checking but I'm not seeing it. Maybe I'm just missing it. 

It would be so great to watch the video and learn how to be able to have my thumbnail show up when I post as my Facebook business page.

I appreciate you putting the link to the DIY instructions. However, I learn so much better when you explain it. 

Thanks, Shari

I would like to sign up for the Live Answer sessions but I still have the same problem that I work during those times and I can't do the sessions when I am at work. 

Could you record it during one of the live sessions so I can watch it later? Or if you can do it some other time I will be glad to try to arrange that!

I really would like to get the Facebook posting to work right.

Thanks, Shari

BYOBWebsite Success = Super Busy!!!!!!!   Rick, Congratulations on your accomplishments.

Fortunately I have had some work meetings cancelled for this coming Thursday (2/9) so I signed up for the Live Answer session. I look forward to learning from you to get this Facebook Open Graph Protocol working right.

Shari 

That is so funny. Rick, it does not surprise me that even though you are so busy and thought you would not remember to do the lesson unless I reminded you…you did it anyway! Thanks so much. I can't wait to see it.

I still might want to do the Live Session this week unless you think my problems will be answered by the lesson already recorded.

When I thought the Live Answer session might not happen, I tried again to get it to work using a wordpress plugin "Social Graph Protocol". I put in my blog title, image, description, id number, url but when I use the Facebook debugging tool I get the following error that must be fixed:

Inferred Property:	The og:locale property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.