Indeed, you don’t have an image in the meta tags for that Post:
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Did you get a warning about your image(s) being too small when you edited that Post?
Did you follow the setup guide? http://surniaulula.com/codex/plugins/nextgen-facebook/installation/a-setup-guide/
The FAQ may be relevant as well: http://surniaulula.com/codex/plugins/nextgen-facebook/faq/how-does-ngfb-find-detect-select-images/
If you turn on the Debug Msgs from the NGFB Advanced settings page, I can tell you exactly which (if any) images NGFB considered.
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Thread Starter
mWoods
(@mwoods)
I turned on debugging, and here are the results:
NGFB Warning :
Media Library image id 147885 rejected – original image 130×87 too small for ngfb-opengraph dimensions (800×800 cropped). Upload a larger image, or adjust the ngfb-opengraph image dimensions setting.
NGFB Warning :
Media Library image id 147886 rejected – original image 6×130 too small for ngfb-opengraph dimensions (800×800 cropped). Upload a larger image, or adjust the ngfb-opengraph image dimensions setting.
NGFB Warning :
Image http://indianapolis-indiana.funcityfinder.com/files/2014/10/revery-015__1412815767_71.201.180.53-e1412988666482.jpg rejected – width / height missing or too small for ngfb-opengraph.
NGFB Warning :
Image http://indianapolis-indiana.funcityfinder.com/files/2014/10/spacer8.gif rejected – width / height missing or too small for ngfb-opengraph.
Your images are too small – you really ought to upload larger images to the WP Media Library, and let WP create the sizes it needs (instead of uploading small images and using a URL to the original).
You can always uncheck the Ignore Small Images option, but then the plugin might pickup some images that are way too small from your content.
If your images in the content are large enough, then you could let NGFB know about them by including width and height attributes in your img HTML tags (otherwise, NGFB has no way to know if an image is too small or not).
I don’t see a miracle cure here – NGFB needs larger images, or you’ll need to reduce the image dimensions in the NGFB settings.
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Thread Starter
mWoods
(@mwoods)
OK, I just changed the image size to 130 x 130px, and unchecked the box to crop. Does this mean NGFB will look only for images that are 130 x 130 px? If so, this should work, since only our featured images are that size.
I’d let WP create the sizes it needs, except WP doesn’t automatically add images to the RSS feed, and we need our images to appear in our RSS feed. The only way I know of to make this happen is via a plugin that grabs the featured image. (Oh, and in case you’re wondering why we just don’t assign larger featured images, it’s because our newsletter also draws from our feed, and those images need to be a certain size.)
You cannot set the NGFB Open Graph Image Dimensions to anything less than 200×200. If you try, NGFB will reload the default values (800×800). Facebook and others ignore images less than 200x200px, so it’s pointless to include them. NGFB will not look for images that are that size or larger, it provides images of exactly that size to the social website in question (Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter Cards all have various image dimension settings).
There are plenty of plugins that will include an image of whatever size you want in your feeds. You could have a 2048x2048px featured image, and include a “thumbnail” of 130x130px in your feeds. This is what WP image size names do — they provide any size you want from a larger / original image.
By uploading thumbnails to your Media Library, you’re just painting yourself into a corner.
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Thread Starter
mWoods
(@mwoods)
Thank you for this feedback. I know it’s not directly related to your plugin, but do you have a suggestion for a plugin to include images in RSS as you describe?
