It’s happened to all of us. We’ve clicked the Facebook like button on a spectacular blog post. Only to view our own Facebook profiles later and seen the strangest thumbnail image next to the “so and so liked this link” blurb.
Or maybe we clicked “share”, because we really, truly liked the post, and wanted to do more than just “like” it. Only to scroll through two hundred and fifty seven thumbnails before finding one that applied to the blog, let alone the post.
It’s annoying. I know—for the longest time, it was some guy’s strange Twitter icon that was the first image to come up when sharing pages from ylcf.org. It will cut down on sharing and clicking. I’ve clicked “no thumbnail” or even cancelled the share altogether sometimes.
But it’s a really easy fix for hosted WordPress bloggers, thanks to a plugin from WPBeginner. (And if you don’t have a blog but you’ve run into this issue on your favorite blog, why not pass on the post link to that blog’s author?)