Thanks stephgc! I’ll give that a try!
Btw, I did afterwards manage to get the FB thumbnail to successfully work on one of the sub-pages in my website, but still not for the master default thumbnail for the overall website.
On the sub-page, it may simply have worked because on that page I chose to classify that page and the thumbnail image I selected specifically for that page, as an ‘article’ (ie. the plugin’s suggested default classification for that page) instead of ‘website’ (which is the default classification for the main thumbnail image where the error message kept appearing in the admin panel for the default image for the plugin).