Sharing site link on FB (missing thumbnail)

  • Hi,

    This will probably not be answered by anyone, let alone resolved or fixed, but i decided to try my luck anyway.

    I was trying to share this website link on Facebook, but no image shows up when i do so, i would really like the logo to show up.

    You can see what it would look like shared on the Facebook debug tool
    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffranandcompany.com%2F

    Normally such a problem is fixed simply by adding an image as a featured image to the page you use as your homepage, but Nirvana doesn’t use a home page but a custom gathering of widgets and others called the Presentation page, which has no options/features/settings for a such a thing.

    You would think there would be one in the Customizer->Site identity, but the people over at WordPress haven’t heard of a little thing called social media yet, maybe one day …

    So the only way i can think of fixing this issue is to stop using the presentation page, and just use a normal page instead, which kinda defeats the purpose of using the Nirvana theme in the first place (same goes for Tempera)

    Newer Cryout Creations themes use a page instead of Text Areas (which is a much better way to do that btw) so you can set a featured image to the first one and that would probably show up as the thumbnail when sharing the sites link.

    Waiting for Nirvana to get fixed for this will probably not happen, maybe there is a plugin for cases like this.

    When I first encountered this issues the site was using Nirvana 1.3.2, i updated it to the newest 1.5.2, but nothing has changed in this regard.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I am having a very similar issue and cannot find a solution (it’s using the most recent blog post’s featured image instead of my logo). Have you found anything?

    Thread Starter JoeGP

    (@joegp)

    Yes, 2 in fact:

    1. use a better theme or
    2. if you wanna keep your current theme (this works with any theme) is to use an SEO plugin like All-in-One-SEO, go to it’s Features/modules section and activate Social Meta or whatever they call it, there you can customize how it looks on SM sites.
    Other SEO plugins might have similar features, haven’t tried others.

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