Apa yang menyebabkan foto thumbnail tidak tampil di dinding facebook?

Question

Tidak semua orang ingin wall-nya (dinding) bisa dikirimi pesan. Kebanyakan karena tidak ingin timeline-nya (kronologi) terlihat "kotor". Lantas bagaimana cara agar teman Facebook tidak bisa mengirim tulisan ke wall? Yuk ikuti tutorial terbaru dari igniel.com berikut ini.

Cara Mengunci Kronologi Facebook

Berikut adalah langkah-langkah mengunci timeline Facebook agar teman tidak bisa mengirim tulisan ke wall (dinding):

Login Facebook lalu masuk ke setting / pengaturan yang beralamat di:
```
https://www.facebook.com/settings
```
.
Masuk ke menu Timeline and tagging.
Pada bagian Timeline, pilih Who can post on your timeline? lalu klik Edit.
Pada kotak yang muncul, pilihlah Only me.
Selesai. Cuma gitu doang kok.

Untuk membuat akun Facebook bertambah eksklusif dan benar-benar hanya berisi orang yang dikenal, kamu bisa gabungkan dengan cara agar Facebook tidak bisa di-add.

Baca Juga: Membuat Nama Facebook Satu Kata

Begini tampilan sebelum dan sesudah pengaturan mengunci kronologi Facebook agar teman tidak bisa menulis di dinding diterapkan.

Gambar thumbnail di share link facebook memiliki nilai lebih dalam memikat teman atau fans untuk mengklik link yang dibagikan. Umumnya gambar thumbnail dimunculkan facebook merupakan gambar yang paling penting dalam elemen sebuah halaman blog atau website kadang secara random. Penampilan gambar-gambar thumbnail ini sering tidak relevan dengan konten tautan yang dibagikan di dinding facebook. Oleh karena itu pengembang facebook merekomendasikan kepada pengembang website untuk memasang kode skrip dibawah ini untuk memunculkan gambar thumbnail postingan blog WP di Facebook:

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Namun solusi tersebut tidak memecahkan masalah bagi blog atau web dinamis seperti blog yang menggunakan mesin wordpress. Solusinya lainya yaitu mempergunakan featured image atau gambar pilihan pada blog wordpress versi 3 keatas. Hal ini cukup membantu, karena thumbnail yang dimunculkan sesuai dengan gambar yang dipilih di featured image. Gambar yang diupload atau ditautkan di featured image menjadi gambar thumbnail di dinding facebook.

Penggunaan wordpress 3 dengan fitur featured image sangat membantu. Namun terkadang karena satu sebab seperti templates yang tidak mendukung featured image atau karena crash dengan plugin, featured image tidak muncul hingga berakibat tidak munculnya thumbnail pada dinding facebook. Solusi untuk memunculkan gambar thumbnail didinding facebook lainya yaitu dengan menambahkan skrip dibawah ini pada functions.php di templates yang digunakan. Ini skrip yang harus ditambahkan :

It’s a common error that beginners often complain about. It’s not always clear how to get Facebook to display the right thumbnail.

In this article, we’ll show you how to fix the Facebook incorrect thumbnail issue in WordPress.

Why Facebook Is not Picking Up the Thumbnail Image

There are many reasons why Facebook might not correctly display the feature image on your post. One of the most common reasons is having multiple images set in the og:Image tag where your featured image is smaller than the other images.

Facebook uses Open Graph (og) tags, and many WordPress plugins like AIOSEO and Yoast SEO automatically add them to your WordPress website to prevent missing thumbnails.

Among other causes are caching plugins, CDN conflicts, or a missing open graph meta tag for the thumbnail image.

It’s really hard to guess what’s causing the issue because there are no specific error messages displayed when using the debugging tool.

That being said, let’s take a look at some ways to fix the incorrect Facebook thumbnail issue:

Choosing Your Facebook Thumbnail with AIOSEO
Choosing Your Facebook Thumbnail With Yoast SEO Plugin
Using Facebook Debug Tool to Clear the Cache

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Choosing Your Facebook Thumbnail with AIOSEO

One way you can show the thumbnail you want is with the AIOSEO plugin. It is the best WordPress SEO plugin on the market and allows you to easily optimize your content for search engines and social media websites.

We’ll show you how to do this with the free version of AIOSEO. If you want to unlock more SEO features and get more traffic to your site, then you should check out AIOSEO Pro. See our full AIOSEO review for more details.

First, you need to install and activate AIOSEO. Here’s our full guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

After you’ve installed the plugin, you can easily change the Facebook thumbnail when writing a post. Just scroll down to the AIOSEO Settings meta box below the post editor and then click on the ‘Social’ tab.

A little further down the page, you will see an ‘Image Source’ dropdown where you can select the thumbnail image for Facebook. For example, you can choose to use your featured image, or upload a custom image to use instead.

Once you add your Facebook thumbnail image there, you need to update your post. This will fix the issue in most cases.

Here’s what our post looks like when shared to Facebook:

Pro Tip: If this doesn’t work, then make sure you have cleared your WordPress cache and refreshed the post in Facebook debug tool, as mentioned below in this article.

Choosing Your Facebook Thumbnail With Yoast SEO Plugin

The Yoast SEO Plugin also comes with the ability to add a custom Facebook thumbnail to each individual post or page.

Simply install and activate the Yoast SEO Plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, it’s time to set up a Facebook thumbnail into whatever post you want.

When writing a post, scroll down to the Yoast SEO meta box below the post editor and then click on the social tab. There you will see a button to upload a thumbnail image for Facebook.

Here’s what the Facebook thumbnail looks like for our How to Start a Blog article:

Using Facebook Debug Tool to Clear the Cache

If you have added the right thumbnail, and Facebook is still not showing the right thumbnail, then the issue is related to caching.

First, you need to make sure that you clear the page cache in WordPress.

After that, you need to reset the cache in Facebook using their debug tool.

The Facebook debug tool is the easiest way to troubleshoot Facebook thumbnail issues.

Simply copy the URL of your WordPress post and paste it into the debugger tool.

After that, click on the ‘Scrape Again’ button, and Facebook will update the thumbnail for your post. Sometimes, you may have to click the ‘Scrape Again’ button twice.

We hope this article helped you resolve the Facebook incorrect thumbnail issue in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to add social share buttons in WordPress and how to increase your blog traffic.

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