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  • Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    No settings for that. It prioritized the featured image in the array and used to work fine. FB has recently, last month, started ignoring OG: tags and pulling what they want anyways so… it’s hard to get them to pull what you want. They haven’t updated docs so not too sure what the new protocol is. Even if you have a single image listed they typically pull what they want anyways.
    Good ‘ol FB.. live testing all the time.

    Thread Starter stefsull

    (@stefsull)

    No kidding. I really can’t stand the BookFace.

    Here’s an oddity. We post a featured image and then 2 or 3 small inline images and I’ve specified the “fallback” image (here’s today’s post: https://blog.contatta.com/forwarding-is-backward-thinking/572 )… Because of the order the OG markup is going in — fallback first and featured last — LinkedIn (who must be piggybacking on the OG markup) is grabbing the first image (the default), with no way to scroll through the array. So we never get the featured image.

    At least FB gives you the ability to scroll though and choose. (I’m guessing from what you said that FB used to weight the final image as the one to use… but now they’re using the first one unless you change it?)

    Plugin Author Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    Yup. FB used to do that. Linkedin I haven’t really paid attention to but they’re supposed to allow you to scroll through them – I know on Buffer I can but haven’t posted directly to LI lately. This used to be so simple and now everybody pulls stuff differently. Kinda makes me hate supporting this anymore when there’s not much of anything I can do. :/

    Also we had to change the order due to FB pulling the first instead of last… now I guess that botched LI. Sigh.

    Thread Starter stefsull

    (@stefsull)

    I know, dude. But in most cases, the BookFace lets you choose… not sure why LI doesn’t. Dumb.

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