Title: Posts are sharing wrong image
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Posts are sharing wrong image

 *  [marya521](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marya521/)
 * (@marya521)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/)
 * Hi,
    When I go to share specific posts to social medias like google+, instead
   of sharing the image that goes with the post, it shares the image (inviting people
   to my weight loss group) that is on the left sideline. It does this to all my
   posts. How do I fix this? Thank you! [http://www.cruisin4losin.com](http://www.cruisin4losin.com)

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 *  [Will Schmierer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/officialwill/)
 * (@officialwill)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/#post-5691352)
 * If you’re using an SEO plugin, such as[ WordPress SEO by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)
   you can set the image you want displayed for social sharing. I believe this is
   also the case for some other SEO plugins, usually you’ll see these settings below
   the post content editor. Of course in most social networks you can override in
   the share posts as well. Hope this helps resolve your issue.
 *  Thread Starter [marya521](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marya521/)
 * (@marya521)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/#post-5691455)
 * Thank you.
    I have set the image that I want displayed for [http://cruisin4losin.com/slimming-mojito/](http://cruisin4losin.com/slimming-mojito/)
   but it is still choosing an image from the sideline. Any other ideas?
 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/#post-5691456)
 * Hi Marya521,
 * The social media networks for the most part now all use the OG tags to pull data
   from your posts that tell them what image to use, what description, title, link,
   etc.
 * Your best bet is to use a Social Media specific plugin (there are a lot of them
   in the repository) – the better ones setup all your OG tag data for you. I have
   not found the SEO plugins to do as good a job at this yet.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=social+media+sharing](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=social+media+sharing)
 * If you are very comfortable with adding code to your Theme’s template files, 
   then adding the OG tags to your header.php file is not hard, in which case you
   wouldn’t need a plugin, but if you’re not comfortable doing that, then a Plugin
   is the way to go.
 *  Thread Starter [marya521](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marya521/)
 * (@marya521)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/#post-5691474)
 * Thank you both for all of your help. I have been able to fix it!

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 * Last reply from: [marya521](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marya521/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-are-sharing-wrong-image/#post-5691474)
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