Social media platforms are important for obtaining visits to the website, and sometimes when the site owner publishes an article or page from his site on his account on social media platforms, the wrong image appears or the image may not appear, and this will have a bad effect on attracting visitors to click on the link. And visit the site.
If you are already facing this problem, then in this article we will discuss how to solve the problem of the thumbnail of your article not appearing when publishing on social media platforms.
Why doesn’t the thumbnail of the post appear on social media?
There are many reasons that cause this problem, some of which are related to the site and others to the same communication platform on which you share the article or page.
To understand this, you must know that social media platforms use special files or tags to choose the appropriate article image, which is called og:Image. When there is more than one image in these tags, it is possible to choose the wrong image.
Also, there are some errors that occur as a result of using caching plugins such as WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, etc. But it is difficult to accurately determine the cause of the problem, in this case it is better to try all possible solutions.
Solve the problem of the thumbnail not appearing
when posting on social media platforms
There are many solutions that you can resort to due to the multiple causes of the same problem. To solve the problem, there are three methods that you can use:
- Clear cache
- Attach the thumbnail manually
- Use SEO plugins
Now, let’s start learning about each method individually.
1. Clear cache
If you are using a caching plugin, it may cause the thumbnail not to appear; This is because the social media platform may not be able to obtain all the information provided by the og:Image addresses to set the thumbnail, and all you have to do is the following to solve the problem:
If you are using the WP Rocket plugin, go to your WordPress control panel, then go to:
Settings > Clear Cache > WP Rocket
As for adding WP Super Cache, with similar steps, you can go to the plugin settings and then click on the button: Delete Cache.
2. Attach the thumbnail manually
You can also solve the problem by manually attaching the image that you want to show on social media platforms. This is an easy and simplified method, but the downside to it is that the chosen thumbnail will appear only in your posts, but when the link to the article or page is shared by other users, it will appear. They have the original image of the article, which is the wrong image.
You can attach the thumbnail manually by copying the link to your article, then pasting it in the publishing field on the desired communication platform and wait a few seconds to ensure that the image that appears is the correct image or the wrong images.
If it is a wrong image, directly click on the option to upload photos to Facebook and attach the correct image from your device’s files.
It’s the same on Twitter, create a new post, click on the media option at the bottom and attach the appropriate image.
3. Use plugins
Some SEO plugins come with an option to specify the thumbnail on social media platforms, such as the Yoast SEO plugin and the Rank Math plugin through simple and easy steps, if you are already using one of these plugins on your site.
Use Yoast plugin
If you have already activated the Yoast plugin on your site, you can go to the WordPress control panel, then go to the SEO tab , then click on social networks.
After that, click on the Facebook option in the top menu and make sure that the Metadata Settings option is activated.
You can also specify default images to be the thumbnail in all posts on social media platforms, and Yoast SEO gives you the same options for both Twitter and Pinterest.
Now, head to the post or page you want to change the thumbnail on, and scroll down to Yoast SEO settings.
Click on social networks, then click on Select an image at the bottom, whether for Facebook or Twitter, and choose the appropriate image. You can also customize the title and description of the post.
Use the RankMath add-on
In the same way, you will need to open the article or page that has the error, and then go to the Rank Math icon at the top of the specific page and go to the tab: social > Edit Snippet
After that, you can attach the image you want, and there are a group of other options that allow you to customize the title and description of the post, and add an icon above the image to make it look like a video or GIF.
Thus, you have learned how to solve the problem of the thumbnail of your article not appearing when publishing on social media platforms. If you encounter any other problem with your WordPress site, let me know in the comments so we can help you solve it.
