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  • February 14, 2017 at 5:04 pm #1371094
    Boans
    Participant

    Hey you all. I have Open Graph enabled and a backup image selected and it works great for posts, but there are just a few actual ‘pages’ that obviously don’t have a featured image and even though the page is just text with one image in it, Facebook just defaults to the backup image (which is just a logo).

    I would like to be able to tag that important image somehow to let the social networks know to use it but I would prefer not to install yet another plugin to do this.

    Is there some type of code that I can wrap an image in on a page to better communicate that it should be the image to share?

    February 15, 2017 at 12:36 am #1371456
    Nico
    Moderator

    Hi There,

    Thanks for wrting in.

    In this case, would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

    – Link to your site
    – WordPress Admin username / password
    – FTP credentials

    Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

    Thanks.

    February 16, 2017 at 12:18 pm #1373901
    Boans
    Participant
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    February 16, 2017 at 9:59 pm #1374492
    Rue Nel
    Moderator

    Hello There,

    Thanks for updating in! If you want to change the default image which you have set in the customizer, you will need to add a featured image for that page. The featured image will override the default open graph image setting. You can then test your page in the Facebook debugger here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.claymaze.com%2Fthe-forgotten-milestone%2F

    You might need to scrape the content again to make sure that the latest changes will be fetch by Facebook Debugger.

    Hope this helps.

    February 17, 2017 at 10:42 am #1375229
    Boans
    Participant

    Thanks a bunch, I never thought to just use the featured image anyway on a regular page.

    I have one quick question though. It appears as though the featured image does not show on the page (which is good) but I’d like to know why so that I can make sure that I can continue to set featured images without them displaying.

    Does adding sections in Cornerstone remove the display of the featured image or does X-Theme just defaultly not display them on pages?

    February 17, 2017 at 3:25 pm #1375558
    Jade
    Moderator

    Hi there,

    That is correct, if you use Cornerstone to edit a page the featured image will not be displayed as you will be building the entire content of the page but if you will use the native WordPress page creator, the featured image will be displayed.

    Hope this helps.

    February 17, 2017 at 5:55 pm #1375680
    Boans
    Participant

    Awesome support as usual, thanks!

    February 17, 2017 at 11:04 pm #1375941
    Prasant Rai
    Moderator

    You are most welcome. 🙂

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