Title: Featured image
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Featured image

 *  [nathan_amir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nathan_amir/)
 * (@nathan_amir)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-292/)
 * I find out the featured image to be a mystery. Actually it makes all the post
   one big risk since if the featured image turn out to be too big/too small/not
   there at all it makes people run a way from the post you are sharing. I tried
   checking for the size and found contrasting answers. I tried checking in help
   and looks like word press doesn’t pay too much attention of making the feature
   reliable.
 * 1. What is the best size for featured image?
    2. How can I make sure it will 
   be just a small pic in a box near my post and not a huge pic under it which makes
   my post ridiculous? 3. How can I see how the featured image will look on my share
   before sharing it? 4. Why word press doesn’t have any preview mechanism to see
   how your post will look like with the featured image on twiiter, facebook, linkedin?
   5. Why when uploading a featured image there is no warning that it is too small/
   too big at all?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-292/#post-7011162)
 * Featured image sizes are set and controlled by the theme, which is really the
   answer to 1, 2, and 5, you’ll have to check with your theme’s support.
 * 3. Generally, previewing the post should show this, but again that’s up to the
   theme.
 * 4. Twitter and LinkedIn do not have preview APIs. Facebook does, but it’s not
   public and buried inside their debugger: [https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/)
   In other words, there’s absolutely no way for WordPress to do this, because the
   networks haven’t provided a way for WordPress to do this.

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-292/#post-7011162)
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