You may or may not have heard that Facebook has been transitioning Facebook Share functionality to “Likes” as the preferred mechanism to share content with your friends on Facebook, cool.
While many of us saw this coming some time ago, we still leaned to Facebook Share for managing this process as it gave users a choice as to the image they used, and could also add status updates. Status updates are still possible, but the images in most circumstances are still left to chance.
So last week, we went in search of a solution to the problem of random images in Facebook Likes. For some time, the Facebook “Like” system seemed to grab the most random images from your site, but that problem can be fixed with a simple new plugin we’re testing called Facebook Like Thumbnail, and it works! Simply install the plugin, activate, and immediately, “liked” articles will populate the first image uploaded to the article. There are no settings at this time needed as it’s automatic.
For advanced users, the plugin author offers a simple function you can add to your functions.php on his website should you wish, and there is also a simple tag available for non-Wordpress users to add to your header to achieve a similar outcome.
Ashfame
March 2, 2011 at 4:50 am
Howdy!
Thanks for linking to my plugin. Please note that don’t link to the download file directly as that will be version specific. Consider linking to the plugin page itself so that people can download the latest version.
I am using a plugin to show the latest version, so that I don’t have to worry about that on my blog.
Regards
Ashfame
Benn Rosales
March 2, 2011 at 10:07 am
My bad. Pasted the wrong link – great plugin and thanks for the the function and hack. 🙂