Favicon/Image not displaying in Facebook links

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  • August 27th, 2014 at 15:50 #26948
    Astonephus

    This is an odd issue and it appears to only be happening with the Parabola theme. Perhaps someone can help me. In Facebook, an image displays when you provide a link and that image will typically be a favicon or an image pulled from the content of the page being linked. For this site (iamlionmusic.com) an image (or, rather, a “blank” image) is not displaying when I link the Presentation Page (http://www.iamlionmusic.com) on FB. See the screenshot below.

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    The odd thing is that images display if other pages are linked. Also, it’s not as if it’s displaying NO IMAGE. In the event of the scrubber not pulling any image it just doesn’t have an image associated in the FB link. In this example it is showing a “blank” image. These seems to only be happening for Presentation Pages on sites with the Parabola theme. Any ideas?

    Thanks.

    August 30th, 2014 at 14:03 #26996
    Walt

    1. Familiarize yourself with Open Graph. http://ogp.me/

    2. Add an og:image meta property into your header where your meta tags are and define a default image (eg: <meta property=”og:image” content=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/image.jpg”&gt; )

    3. Update your site with Facebook Open Graph debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    related reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10672007/how-do-i-set-ogimage-so-it-takes-image-from-page

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