How do you pass an image to the Facebook meta tag?

Hi Spencer,

Facebook tends to keep a very sturdy cache of your pages. This means that updating your pages won’t result in changes at Facebook.

We wrote a blog post about this, there you can learn how to refresh Facebook’s cache.

Hi Sybre,

Thanks for the reply and being swift. However, I think you may have misunderstood what I’m trying to accomplish.

I’m not having an issue with the image caching, it’s flat out not using the pages featured image. You can see this in the URL in the site code even before it gets to Facebook.

I’m specifically wondering if there is a Hook of some kind that allows me to tell The SEO Framework to use a specific image URL instead of the fallback.

Thanks for your time.

Hi Spencer,

The “Listing Image” may not be one of the images The SEO Framework knows about. TSF uses the “Featured Image” field (stored as _thumbnail_id post meta), but the CPT might’ve registered it differently.

I recommend using the image upload field supplied with every post. Alternatively, altering the CPT to use the well-known _thumbnail_id field may be a good idea, but unwanted side-effects may occur.

Nevertheless, there is a hook available, you’ll have to fill in the image index if your logic finds one. Here’s a freehand, untested example:

add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_og_image_args', function( $args ) {

	$tsf = the_seo_framework();

	//? Admin-compatible query checks.
	if ( $tsf->is_singular() ) {
		$post_type = get_post_type() ?: $tsf->get_admin_post_type();

		if ( 'my_post_type' === $post_type ) { // change this
			$meta_id = get_post_meta( $tsf->get_the_real_ID(), 'listing-image-key', true ); // change the key

			if ( $meta_id && wp_attachment_is_image( $meta_id ) ) {
				$args['image'] = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $meta_id, 'full', false );
			}
		}
	}

	return $args;
} );

I hope this helps! Cheers ??