I have someone who wants to share my website through Facebook and they want my logo to appear in the FB post. What do I have to do on the WordPress end to have my logo automatically appear in the FB post?
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1Please, check this previously posted answer at this link. How do I get Facebook to show my site's logo when I paste the link in a post/status/comment?– AnassSep 1, 2016 at 21:50
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@anass Thank you for this link. I did see it before but my inexperience with this rendered it Greek to me. :) I installed a plugin that added the required header info but it still isnt working on FB. It does work from LinkedIn however. Don't know why one works and the other doesn't.– DLMSep 2, 2016 at 22:52
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I'd recommend checking out the following plugins:
Either one will take care of all of the Open Graph metadata. Once you have the plugin set up, you can simply go to your homepage and you will see a "Featured Image" widget:
Pick your logo and you will see the og:image
which is what Facebook uses to set the post image.
<meta property="og:image" content="http://web.site/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg" />
Update
I see that you set up the Open Graph Protocol Framework and now when I visit your website, I see the og:image
metadata. Here's a preview of what it looks like if I were to share it on LinkedIn:
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Thank you! Is it really that simple? Why am I reading about having to do it with plugins and code, etc.?– DLMSep 2, 2016 at 0:55
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@DLM Yes, because if you look at my example output, it gives
meta property="og:image"
which is a widely accept structure for all social sites nowadays, see more info from the Open Graph protocol's website. The places that you read about using a plugin/code may be dated. Sep 2, 2016 at 1:04 -
@EthanJinksO'Sullivan Is this theme specific or does wp_head() handle it? Sep 2, 2016 at 1:19
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@TimMalone My apologies, the local copy that I have for testing has the Yoast SEO plugin activate and didn't account for that. I'll update my answer Sep 2, 2016 at 3:13
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No probs, I thought it might be possible it was built in, but I hadn't come across that! Might also be worth adding some code options, should be fairly easy to hook a custom action in to do it too. Sep 2, 2016 at 5:55