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<\/a>So you\u2019ve spent time crafting a great blog article.<\/p>\nYou\u2019ve inserted a brilliant picture to illustrate a key point, liven things up and hopefully raise a smile.<\/p>\n
It all looks great.<\/p>\n
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Then you post it on FaceBook, and instead of your carefully chosen image, you get a default image or worse still, no image at all. You feel like you wasted your time!<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s 2 ways to overcome that.<\/p>\n
1. Whilst you are still working on your post in WordPress, choose one of the pictures in your post to use as the \u201cfeatured image\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 2. When you are putting the post into your FaceBook Status update, select an picture from your computer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s go through each of those step by step.<\/p>\n When you are writing your post and inserting pictures, choose one to be the featured image.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n All you need to do is click the \u201cuse as featured image\u201d link when you are setting up the image details, just before you click \u201cinsert into post\u201d.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to insert the smiley wordpress logo you can see at the top of this post and set it as the featured image and show you the screen shot below \u2013 see the yellow highlight on the link at the bottom:<\/p>\n Screen shot – see the highlighted link<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NOTE<\/strong><\/span>: selecting the Thumbnail SIZE does NOT make the picture the featured<\/em> image, even though what gets shown in\u00a0Facebook\u00a0gets referred to as a thumbnail!!!<\/p>\n If,\u00a0when you insert the picture into your post,\u00a0<\/span>you forget to click the \u201cuse as featured image\u201d link, you have two more options:<\/p>\n When you put the URL of your blog post into your FaceBook status update, it will automatically put the featured image you chose beside the blog title and link. \u00a0Here\u2019s one I made earlier for another post\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n Alternately, if your blog post doesn\u2019t have an image you want to use as \u201cfeatured\u201d, or you want to add a bigger, or different image (instead of the thumbnail) when you post your blog article as a FaceBook update, here\u2019s what to do:<\/p>\n Publish your blog post and write your status update in Facebook, adding your link as normal. You can see below how the link pulls in the text \u2013 in this case there is no featured image:<\/p>\n Screen shot – facebook status update<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Before you hit \u201cpost\u201d, click on the \u201cPhoto\u201d button as highlighted inthe screen shot above.<\/p>\n It will look like your status update and link have disappeared, but they haven\u2019t! When you click on \u201cUpload Photo\/Video\u201d it will re-appear and you can navigate to any image you want that is stored on your computer using the \u201cchoose file\u201d button.<\/p>\n You won\u2019t see the image appear until you click on \u201cpost\u201d \u2013 and then you get something like this, with the link in the text and the picture you chose filling the width of the status update:<\/p>\n1. Choose featured image in WordPress<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat if I forget?<\/h3>\n
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2. Add an image to your FaceBook update<\/h2>\n
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