Facebook preview image for wix pages

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Wondering if anyone can give me the definitive scoop on the why and if there is a workaround.

When posting on facebook, if I reference a wix website page, the correct SEO description is fetched, but the link preview image always defaults to the single site image.

Additionally the facebook debugger always complains about: The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

Not sure if that is relevant.

Is there some way to get facebook to pick up the website page images during the link preview as it does for other sites? Is there some way to tag one of the images so that it gets picked up by facebook?

I can alter the link previews by uploading my own, but this necessitates an intervention for every link I post.

Note that is is NOT an issue for the wix blog entries, which get scraped accurately and pick up the correct image.

Any experts out there who can weigh in?

Very appreciated,

Deborah

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Hi Deborah,
This forum is specialised in Wix Code product. Please contact Wix support team regarding this matter as they know best.

Have a good day,
Tal.

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Hi Deborah,
I have the exact same issue on only one post. Did the Wix support team fix it for you?

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They do not support this feature. On blog posts, a selected image will be shown - but not on website pages.

On the plus side, you can change the link preview within facebook (and sometimes within other posting tools) but you need to do this manually.

Unfortunately.

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Hi all,
I also got this trouble but it doesn’t the problem from wix.
Method I use to create facebook share

In my case, web user can’t see preview image in Facebook share , when the share button on page was clicked first time. If share button was clicked second time, preview image will show.

I guess the reason is that the first time of clicking Facebook share button was sending data of image to the Facebook share screen and the second time of click it was already get data of image

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I have been evaluating Wix to move all my websites over, and this issue has become the show stopper that has now forced me to not use Wix and stay with my current hosting service.

I have raised support tickets a few times, and the best I have got is a new feature request being raised, and was pointed to this forum by support. Interesting staff on here are bouncing people back to support.
Typical of IT support staff… make it someone else problem.

I find it staggering that with a ‘mature’ service like Wix you cannot specify an image for sharing on social media (e.g. og:image) on a per page basis. It means anyone with a site thats not suited to being a blog, or or selling products, that has different images on each page (too many to set manually) will all have the same site image when shared.

Errmm, could someone tell Mr Wix… that Facebook and Twitter are quite popular sites currently? And sharing webpages inot them is a fairly common occurrence?

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