Default website image for social sharing

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paz picture paz · Oct 28, 2013 · Viewed 91.9k times · Source

Is there any way to set a default image that appears when I share my website on Facebook? I've noticed that Facebook usually fetches the first image from the site to use as a thumbnail.

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Patsy Issa picture Patsy Issa · Oct 28, 2013

You need to set the facebook image meta tag:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/logo.jpg">
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/png">
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1024">
<meta property="og:image:height" content="1024">

For more info check the docs

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