Why does Facebook not want to display my post thumbnails?

Recently when I try to share my content on Facebook, everything appears normal except I cannot get it to display a picture. I'm using WordPress SEO to handle all of the SEO and Social metadata, but it doesn't really cover images that well.

When I use the Facebook Debugger, my webpages do not contain errors yet it still refuses to display images. I think the problem is happening because it is selecting the photo media using this format of link: http://media.detailsofmylife.net/uploads/2012/03/Alesso-Essential-Mix-200x125.jpg , but I am not sure why:

  • Why Facebook chooses that as the default image even though I have the full size version selected as the Featured Image.
  • Why Facebook has a problem with that format style of link image?

Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated as it's doing my head in!

Topic post-thumbnails facebook Wordpress

Category Web

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When you have maximum users from Facebook and other social media networks instead of organic traffic then Facebook blocks your URL due to multiple shares. and in some cases facebook block you from showing thumbnails. you can request to facebook for this.

or if your thumbnails are not showing and you are using mobile facebook then Also try it on laptop. in some cases thumbnain on laptop shown if you provide some spaces or some text after the link

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In my case, it seems that the crawler is just having a bug. I have my own canonical answer in this question, hope that helps you: FB OpenGraph og:image not pulling images (possibly https?)

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If you define a meta tag with the og:image property, facebook will pick this up as the image associated with that url.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraphprotocol/

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