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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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    Please, 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?
    – Anass
    Sep 1, 2016 at 21:50
  • @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.
    – DLM
    Sep 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:

Featured Image

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:

LinkedIn Snippet

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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.?
    – DLM
    Sep 2, 2016 at 0:55
  • @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.
    – Ethan O'Sullivan
    Sep 2, 2016 at 1:04
  • @EthanJinksO'Sullivan Is this theme specific or does wp_head() handle it?
    – Tim Malone
    Sep 2, 2016 at 1:19
  • @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
    – Ethan O'Sullivan
    Sep 2, 2016 at 3:13
  • 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.
    – Tim Malone
    Sep 2, 2016 at 5:55

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