From Facebook’s Best Practices doc:
Try to keep your images as close to 1.91:1 aspect ratio as possible to display the full image in News Feed without any cropping.
Always “Fetch new scrape information” with Facebook’s URL debugger after making changes to reset Facebook’s cache of your post.
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elhuds
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Thank you for the reply micropat.
Please excuse my ignorance but I am not really sure what 1.91:1 aspect ratio is. Whenever I post a square image like 512×512 Facebook usually makes it fit it’s window when sharing.
I used the debugger and I am not getting any errors or anything.
I read the Best Practices doc and it looks like the images should be wider than tall instead of square?
I have an images similar to 490×367 and it still does not fit properly.
Forgive my ignorance but I am a little confused.
With 600 x 314 for example, 600 divided by 314 is nearly equal to that 1.91 figure. In other words, the width is nearly double the height (1.91:1 is nearly 2:1).
For Facebook sharing, you’ll want to crop your images to approximately match that wide 1.91:1 ratio. Facebook also handles square images nicely as you’ve seen.
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elhuds
(@elhuds)
Thanks for explaining that Micropat. I appreciate it. I figured that is what you were saying but I never had this issue with square images.
Based on your reply:
Facebook also handles square images nicely as you’ve seen.
That is my issue. Square images weren’t an issue before but now there are. 🙁 I try to keep all my images square so they look nice in the article.
So I am still at a loss. 🙁
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elhuds
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I think I may have found something.
When I do a crape I notice that there is no og:image:width and og:image:height meta. From what I was reading, that controls how the image is size in facebook.
I am just not sure where that code is supposed to go. I am using Yoast Seo plugin so I assume it goes in one of those files?
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elhuds
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This can actually be closed since it may not be an addtoany issue.
