Title: Facebook picking random image for shared posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Facebook picking random image for shared posts

 *  [Healthnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitness-blogger/)
 * (@fitness-blogger)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/)
 * When I (or somebody else) tries to share a post from my blog on Facebook, Facebook
   seems to just grab a random image to use as thumbnail. Which image is used for
   each post also seems to change on an almost daily basis. Most of the times, the
   image chosen is not even from the post I am trying to share.
 * I have tried setting a featured image for each post, specifying the post image
   in my SEO tool, etc. but nothing works.
 * Can anybody help? My website is bitbyfit.com.
 * Thanks
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 *  [martong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martong/)
 * (@martong)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359535)
 * I read in another post it gets it from the OpenGraph code in the actual webpage.
   In the source of your page, look for “<meta property=”og:image” content=”PATH
   TO IMAGE” />”. This is the image FB will use, but the developer did not say how
   the Wordperss plugin generates the og:image tag. I have a case where the value
   is missing. Good Luck!
 *  [martong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martong/)
 * (@martong)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359541)
 * Run your the FB debugger on your post to see if you get any errors…
 * . [https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug)
 *  Thread Starter [Healthnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitness-blogger/)
 * (@fitness-blogger)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359596)
 * Hi Martong,
 * Thanks for the help. I think the problem is that I don’t have any og:image tag
   at all. The other og tags are there but no image. How did you fix the case with
   the missing value?
 *  Thread Starter [Healthnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitness-blogger/)
 * (@fitness-blogger)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359597)
 * Actually, when I enter the specific post in the debugger (not just the main blog
   page), I don’t get any error messages and it shows the two images in the post
   as og:images. And then Facebook picks a random image from the site header to 
   show….
 *  Thread Starter [Healthnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitness-blogger/)
 * (@fitness-blogger)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359611)
 * New update 🙂
    After running the debugger on each post I apparently reset something.
   Now Facebook identifies the correct og:images for each post. However, it doesn’t
   chose the right one. I have set “featured image” for each post but Facebook shows
   the last picture of the post instead.
 * I also get an error message that the og;image is not “at least 200×200 px” even
   though the first image in the post (and the featured image) it actually 1144X772.

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 * Last reply from: [Healthnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitness-blogger/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-picking-random-image-for-shared-posts/#post-4359611)
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