Title: Share Pics?
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Share Pics?
* [gbbuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbbuggs/)
* (@gbbuggs)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/)
* Hello. When I share posts or anything to FB it retrieves a picture from who knows
where. I am not able to change it and I have been able to in the past. Any advice?
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* [mikecoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikecoleman/)
* (@mikecoleman)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904830)
* Am still building new blog page for my site and I have the same issue.
If there
is a picture within the post then the facebook share uses it, but if the post
is just text then a random picture from my site is inserted in the facebook share
link..??? How can I stop this, or even better change the code to always insert
my chosen cover picture..? Help?
* [CariSultanik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carisultanik/)
* (@carisultanik)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904923)
* I was just looking for an answer to the same question. It always pulls the same
picture (not sure why that one in particular). Would love to have it just use
the featured image from the post. (And thank you, and I’d happily upgrade once
I can get this particular issue resolved.)
* [mikecoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikecoleman/)
* (@mikecoleman)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904936)
* Hey I managed (well I think I did it..!??!) to fix it..!!
If you’re happy to
use the same ‘cover picture’ all the time, then you need to add the following‘
meta property’ into the section of your pages. So I embedded it
into my header.php file: . Now works fine! I remembered from an earlier
issue with my original non-wordpress website that this is one of the meta parameters
that facebook requires…if you don’t set this then it finds it’s own choice…!!
* [Synved](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synved/)
* (@synved)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904942)
* Unfortunately sometimes Facebook ignores the parameters we pass in when sharing
and instead picks its own image. You can install an OpenGraph plugin (search
for one in the WP.org repository) that will add OpenGraph tags for the featured
image in your post, that should force FB to use that image.
* Thread Starter [gbbuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbbuggs/)
* (@gbbuggs)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904951)
* mikecoleman
* How can I complete what you suggested? Open graph works at times, but is not
reliable.
* [mikecoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikecoleman/)
* (@mikecoleman)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904957)
* gbbuggs
* Not sure I understand your question..??
Now I’ve added the parameter into my header.php file it always work for me, but it only
puts the picture I specified in the parameter, no others, even if there
is a picture within the post. I can only suggest you try adding a plugin, as
Synved the Author has said.
* [LaGalerieDesNanas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lagaleriedesnanas/)
* (@lagaleriedesnanas)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904978)
* I have the same linked photo issue in FB. I never taught it would be so complicated
with a paid Plug-In. I now have to add OpenGraph?
* [Synved](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synved/)
* (@synved)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-pics/#post-5904983)
* We always send in the image you specified as featured image to Facebook when
sharing, but sometimes Facebook ignores it and instead picks its own image from
the page.
* This could be due to having some plugin that inserts incorrect OpenGraph tags(
like All in One SEO I think for instance) or simply Facebook just plain ignoring
our parameters for whatever reason. Unfortunately we cannot “force” Facebook
to use the parameters we pass in, it’s up to them to choose which image to pick.
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