Adding Featured Image functionality to old Kubrick theme

  • m2k

    (@m2k)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Years ago, the news section of our website was built off the default Kubrick WP theme. We’ve been fine with that up until recently when we realized there is no “featured image” functionality built into this theme. We realized this as we are about to launch a Facebook page and discovered we had no way to control the thumbnail image that appears when someone shares one of our links on FB.

    Nothing I’ve tried has worked so far. Any suggestions?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    start by reviewing (if you haven’t done already) http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

    where do you want to show the featured image?

    Thread Starter m2k

    (@m2k)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Our news posts almost never have images. I just want to set our logo as the featured image so that when someone copies and pastes one of our links into Facebook, our logo shows up as a thumbnail option. No need for it to show up anywhere in the WP post.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    That has absolutely nothing to do with WordPress’ featured image functionality.

    Thread Starter m2k

    (@m2k)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    OK. So, any ideas where it is controlled? As I understand it, FB always considers the featured image as an option for the thumbnail. The Kubrick theme has no Featured Image option in the post dashboard.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    FB uses what it wants as an option to the thumbnail., It does not always use the WordPress featured image functionality. Try asking about this on an FB forum.

    paulwpxp

    (@paulwp)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    This one looks promising
    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/

    Plugin is good for this kind of thing, it’s better than reading all the doc and put the right og tag in the head by yourself, just configure the plugin and that’s it.

    Thread Starter m2k

    (@m2k)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Solution:

    <link rel="image_src" href="http://site.com/image.jpg" />

    In case anyone runs into a similar problem.

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