By default, custom link images can only be used with manually shared links on FB fan pages. In this tutorial we will explain you how to assign a custom Facebook share image on per post basis in your WordPress site. Generally what happens is whenever any post link is shared, Facebook tries to grab images from the linked webpage. Many a times it allows you select a thumbnail, sometimes it fails to grab images and fetches only link title and description. In-case of auto posting; FB randomly grabs an image. All these things happens only on websites not using proper open graph meta tags.
A month back we have discussed about automatically adding proper Facebook meta tags and defining a default FB share image. Now in this tutorial we are discussing about an awesome feature of popular WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin.
First make sure SEO by Yoast plugin is active on your WordPress site then follow the given steps:
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Visit Dashboard -> Posts -> Add New page or open any old post for editing.
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Scroll a little bit down to WordPress SEO by Yoast meta box (present after the content writing box) and click ‘Social‘ tab.
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Click ‘Upload Image‘ button and you can upload or use media library image using same old media thickbox. Choose an an image and click ‘Use Image‘ button.