Social media share images

BB Theme
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Hi.
I have just used the native Wordpress page edit to add a 1200x800px social media share image for:

No image appeared when I shared the URL on “X”.

If anybody can advise, I would be extremely grateful!

Thanks. Sarah

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The above share image is absolutely perfect, just not on “X”!

3

You need to use an SEO plugin to add the image properly to the site meta rather than relying on social media to find the first image in a post.

4

Thanks!
Could you suggest an alternative to AIOSEO / Yoast?

They are both costly, and also gave problems with social media share images.

Thanks again.
Sarah

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There are so many “seo” plugins for wp, they all do the same thing and are all free on the wp repo, you dont need to pay to have a social image added as opengraph data.

What “problems”?

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Hi. Thanks for your reply.

The problems are that the share image does not appear when sharing a page via “X”.

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Which plugin did you use to add the opengraph data needed by social media sites? Whats the url for the page?

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I am using the free version of:

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Yea thats a plugin that creates a sitemap, that is different.

You need a plugin like yoast/rankmath etc that will let you add social media images for opengraph.

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Thank you so much!
I shall just finish off what I am doing now and try Rankmath. From what I have quickly read, it looks quite good.

Thanks again!

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Im sure you already know about it but facebook has a debug tool to see what opengraph meta it can pick up from your site