Image used for wordpress posts on Facebook

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I’ve seen it several times on my facebook timeline where the image of a shared link is not in the post itself. Example:

https://www.facebook.com/BarakaBits/posts/1065758210116791 – Image has text on it.
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Here’s the post itself: http://www.barakabits.com/2015/01/beauty-moroccos-diversity-captured-stunning-photo-series

Is this a hidden image? I’m using a wordpress blog, how can I do this? Do I need a special plugin?

Thank you in advance!
Wil

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  1. I don’t know exactly what this site is doing, but you can suggest that Facebook use a specific image (not necessarily one found on the page) by using the og:image Open Graph tag. For example, something like this would go in the <head> portion of your site:

    <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.barakabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Moroccos-faces-featured-6.jpg">

    As you can see from the site you referenced, you can have multiple og:image tags, and the user will be able to choose which one is displayed in the post.

    Here’s Facebook’s guide to Open Graph tags: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices