Is your blog thumbnail consistently not showing up on Facebook? Doesn’t that suck???? I let this problem go on for faaaaaaar too long. There was a period where I was very afraid of my own ignorance, and thought I could ignore what I didn’t know. Wow, was I silly!
Jump to 1:30 for your solution! The first minute and a half is for those who aren’t sure if this is the problem they’re having or if it’s something else. If this doesn’t work for you, I do mention another solution at 4:02. And I would recommend checking out some other blogs or videos like these ones:
This is what it might look like consistently if you are trying to post natively into Facebook and can’t pull a photo thumbnail:
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/blog-post-image-not-populating-on-facebook-1024x613.png)
This is what it might look like if you are using a bulk posting software:
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/using-buffer-to-post-blogs-to-facebook-twitter-linkedin-pinterest.png)
(see how it just grabbed my logo instead of a blog picture?)
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/no-featured-image-wordpress-blog-video-marketing-1024x652.png)
Ag! Now that I know what the problem is, I can even see that I’m missing an image when I’m looking at all my other blogs…
Here’s what you do!
Go into whatever website platform you use (in my case I use WordPress) and pull up the blog in question. (That means going to yourwebsite.com/wp-admin and signing in)
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/wordpress-blog-on-video-marketing-thumbnail-not-pulling-to-facebook-1024x858.png)
Scroll down on the left until you see “Featured Image” or find “Post Featured Image” or something similar.
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/set-featured-image-to-post-blog-to-facebook.png)
Click where it says “Set featured image” and pick the image you previously had somewhere in your blog or upload a new one.
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/upload-featured-image-into-wordpress-blog-share-facebook-1024x502.png)
Then delete the image from the top of your blog so you are not doubling up.
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-7.04.21-PM.png)
Woooooohoooo! Update your post!
BEFORE AND AFTER
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/blog-before-featured-image-1024x782.png)
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/blog-after-featured-image-1-1024x780.png)
Now you can wait for Facebook to update, or, you can type your url into this link: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and it should find your featured image sooner!
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/facebook-bug-detector-for-developpers-1024x564.png)
Then post to Facebook and you should be good to go!
![](https://inspiredvideomarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/wordpress-featured-image-shows-up-as-facebook-thumbnail-for-blog-post-1024x688.png)
I hope you found what you were looking for! And I hope you found it a lot sooner than I did. 😉
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