{"id":804,"date":"2012-04-10T00:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2014-04-10T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:04:27","slug":"your-websites-fb-thumbnail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/your-websites-fb-thumbnail\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Website’s FB Thumbnail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When your website is shared or liked on Facebook, you may be surprised at the thumbnail that Facebook automatically chooses to use. \u00a0HOWEVER, you can fix that!<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to\u00a0https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug<\/a>\u00a0and check the actual thumbnail usage by Facebook<\/li>\n
  2. Upload a 250px wide thumbnail\u00a0image that you’d like to use to your website’s server.<\/li>\n
  3. Add the following between the HEAD TAGS of your website’s main page but change the full URL to your thumbnail image: \u00a0<link rel=”image_src” href=”http:\/\/yoursite.com\/yourthumbnail.jpg<\/strong>” \/><\/em><\/li>\n
  4. The changes might take up to 24 hours but go to\u00a0https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to clear the Facebook cache to use your new image and to view if it is working correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    If you are using WordPress, it’s a bit more complicated, but read this article to find out what you can do…\u00a0http:\/\/www.shoutmeloud.com\/now-facebook-like-button-will-pick-the-right-image.html<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When your website is shared or liked on Facebook, you may be surprised at the thumbnail that Facebook automatically chooses to use. \u00a0HOWEVER, you can fix that! Go to\u00a0https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug\u00a0and check the actual thumbnail usage by Facebook Upload a 250px wide thumbnail\u00a0image that you’d like to use to your website’s server. Add the following between the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-design"],"views":42404,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabotsites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}