Chuck Reynolds

That’s because those images aren’t related to the home page; they’re related to that individual post – it’s completely different. It can’t know what images are shown on a homepage in all themes everybody uses – just not possible. You need to tell it what to show Facebook. If your theme uses a page for the homepage then give it a feature image; otherwise you’ll have to rely on the default/fallback image.

View your source – it tells you what’s wrong:
<!-- There is not an image here as you haven't set a default image in the plugin settings! -->

Unless you set a featured image for your homepage, or you set a default fallback image there’s no image to use.

1. you need to “Fetch new scrape information” in Facebook’s debugger as they retain a cache. I’ve done that now for you.

2. The image you have set http://sagecontinuinged.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31.png is too small and not the minimum size for FB standards. Minimum image size for FB is 600 x 315. Anything larger is fine – but that’s the minimum.

3. Check in your Settings > General that your “Site Name” is filled out too.

Did you look at your page source? Use the Facebook Debugger? I’m willing to bet it’s in there. FB decides to show larger images it favors more first instead of other images it may deem smaller or less important. The plugin help explains the current process. So it’s doing exactly what it says it does in the description.

The next major version of this plugin will handle images differently though because Facebook is picky. So without you being more specific to Facebook your featured image will be the only thing FB sees instead of an array of all the images found.

Thanks for the review though. If you have questions feel free to open a support request as I’m pretty on top of those and can explain how things work.

Cheers

I can’t help if you don’t supply a URL for me to look at the site source

Hey Hero12

I’ve considered adding the image size but haven’t yet as it’s not required as per their documentation; and they do a good job of finding the proper image size as it is. The new version I have in final testing right now changes the way images are presented to FB and will resolve the problems of multiple images being presented and FB choosing one based on size instead of what a site wants to be presented.

That should be out fairly soon. Just busy with work and needs more testing.

As for the prefix – that’s already in the new version as well.

Cheers!

Hi there Tim.

Few things going on here…

1. RE: the locale – it’s spitting out “en” which is weird. If you go to your admin panel and to “Settings” > “General” and scroll to the bottom. What is selected in your “Site Language” dropdown? It should be “English (Canada)”. If it’s not change it to that. If it isn’t… what is selected?

2. RE: Image size of featured image. FB’s rules say images must be at least 600 x 315. They will get picky about that extra 15px of height missing. If you changed those to at least meet those guidelines it’ll help. I have a list of the proper sizes here: https://github.com/chuckreynolds/social-profile-image-sizes

3. RE: Images found and put into source by the plugin. Right now the 2.0.12 version built all images (feat img, content imgs, & default img) into a list… that’s how Facebook used to want them. Recently FB changed (multiple times) how they pull those which got me rethinking on how to rebuild that. I have the next major version in a final beta state, which should release soon with some more testing, and it handles the images differently. In your case here it sounds like it will benefit you perfectly. Currently when you post you should be able to cycle through the images on FB in order to pick the one you want.