How to make a share thumbnail for a wordpress website

Open Graph Meta Tags handle the thumbnail that would be generated if someone shares your website on Facebook or other social networks. Basically, you need to add few lines in your header.php of your theme before the closing </head> tag.

Check out this site for detailed information on how the protocol works. It has examples that you can simply copy-paste.

Thanks just what I need it! ??

I am currently using a child theme of minimatica for my website and I wanted to create a customize thumbnail(open graph) for facebook and I am having difficulty doing this.

I know that I am suppose to add stuff to the head of the html but it’s kinda of difficult with wordpress because you don’t have access to the actual html.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Adding code to the head section of the page would be done in the header.php file – that’s where the HTML is (though yes, some will be generated dynamically by the php). But you should see the closing </head> tag in that file.

Okay I see both head element tags.

I’m trying to follow this tutorial
https://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-use-a-custom-thumbnail-when-posting-a-wordpress-link-to-facebook/

but I don’t know if I should put the php code inside the head element tags. I don’t know the rules of php.

Yeah, I’m still having trouble with this. I tried 5 different plugins and none of them seem to be working. Right now I’m using Ultimate SEO and my facebook thumbnails are not changing.
Any suggestions?

Thanks.