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signers
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:11 am 
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Hi,

hope to get help with this issue is driving me nuts.

I've tried more than 3 different extensions and all do the same. When I try to share my articles with facebook.. it gives the option to select the thumbnail between all the images in the article,,, even the banners outside the article.

I have an image gallery in each article, and it is even showing the gallery thumbnails.

I need to be able to set only one image to be the thumbnail on the facebook share, or even better, be able to set more than one image to be able to be set as thumbail.

Help!!
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Craigm1841
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:55 pm 
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solution is fairly simple.

1. Go to your template manager and click "edit main page template" under Template master files on the left.

2. place this right before the </head> tag:

Code:
<link rel="image_src" href="complete path to your image" />


SAVE

3. go to: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and put your URL in to clear the facebook cache.

4. Try to post your page to facebook again.

Few things...

If you have a more complex template you may need to FTP in and open a different php file, ie: index.php or default.php, or template.php, depending on your templates developer.

The facebook debugger... ironically is a little buggy. It may take you a few times. It also may not work at all- you'll know it works when it lists your meta and image. Sometimes if I cant get it to work I try again 20 minutes later.


Now your image will be either one of the images you can choose from when picking your thumbnails, or the only image that is available for your thumbnail.

I have done this about 8 times- with success every time.
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signers
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:57 pm 
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Hi, thanks for your awswer, but this is what just happened.

My problem was about the facebook "share" button... because this one as I said before, were giving all images available for thumbnail... and still does.

Then I discover that the "like" button was taking the first image on the article, but croping it in a really ugly way.. but anyway... I was ok with the results.

Then I tried your suggestions and you know what?.. It didn't work, and I erase it then and set it as before.. and now the "like" is no showing anything as before...

Now I lost everything. Maybe there where something else I killed.

Do you have any idea what it could be?

If I get the "like" thumbnail I am happy enough!

BTW I am using BT Social share.
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