Problem with incoming links images

  • I am having a headache inducing problem with links to my website (that I’m posting on Facebook, etc…)

    The option that lets you select a thumbnail image is scrolling through every image on the page — including the ads! And images in unrelated articles (like,for instance, a sidebar photogallery).

    To make matters worse, if there is an image at the top of the post and it has a caption, the HTML code and caption show up in the link!

    I had assumed that if I had set a “Featured Image” (as I do for every post) this would be the image used with the link.

    I would like to know if there is a way to SET in stone THE PARTICULAR image that is to be used with incoming links.

    Thank you!

    My site is https://www.TheEquestrianNews.net, if taking a look helps.

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  • It seems like this is a question about how Facebook works rather than how WordPress works.

    Thread Starter Paula Parisi

    (@paula-parisi)

    I don’t think so, Jonas, as every other link I paste to FB (from the L.A. Times, the N.Y. Times, etc…) works perfectly fine.

    Seems to be something having to do with how the various themes are coded, or how one is using WP.

    Does anyone know of a way within WP to assign one specific image to “thumbnail” status? And when I say “thumbnail,” i mean the tiny image that goes along with the link.

    I was pretty surprised, to learn on adopting WP, that within the WP world, all images are referred to as “thumbnails.”

    Maybe a widget or plug-in that enables the smoother facilitation of incoming links? Or else a line of code that can take care of this?

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