I’ll figure it out and then post the examples above the comment box.

anyway glad it worked out Gandahar!

Did you try the Linter?:

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/

the code have been deleted

sorry mates ;)

it was only an example of how to do it with simple php function ;)

see you guys !

then random number at the end of the URL fix this problem !!

php function rand(1,9999)

[code]
$text='
';
[/code]

;)

Thanks for trying to help me. I got it! In case this helps other people, I had put a default image for the site when I couldn’t get the specific article’s picture on FB posts. I added JG’s code, but it kept over-riding his hack. I commented it out, then deleted the code, and it still kept showing the default image.

What I needed to do was completely delete the image.jpg or thumbnail.jpg in the folder. Facebook took the one without the itemid first, but if that wasn’t there, then it took the correct or article-specific one.

Also at first I thought it didn’t work when I put the thumbnail into the status or link windows on facebook and didn’t see any thumbnail, but then I remembered seeing somewhere that sometimes FB doesn’t take long URLs and show the thumbnail. When I converted the link via bit.ly, it worked!

Thanks again JG. Really appreciate it!

No worries, sometimes this stuff gets a little confusing!

Yes you would just name the image “thumbnail44.jpg” and put it in the fbthumbs folder.

If your article is #44, then the code you place in there will simply add that number onto the end of the string and when it goes looking for that image, it will be there in the folder.

You can always email me from my contact form too if you’re having trouble and I can take a look in there for you. Just let me know! Good luck!

I was just thinking of switching away from Joomla. Question from ignorant noobie.

I put the codes into template index file as suggested, but what is it that I need to name the photo in the article? For instance if I have article 44, do I name the photo thumbnail44.jpg and put it in the fbthumbs folder and facebook should be able to find it? What does it mean when you say I need to add a link tag (sorry – this is probably a dumb question).

To maybe complicate matters – when I couldn’t get the thumb thing to work, I did figure out how to add a default image if FB couldn’t find the right image. I used this code: 01 function insert_image_src_rel_in_head() {
02 global $post;
03 if ( !is_singular()) //if it is not a post or a page
04 return;
05 if(!has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID )) { //the post does not have
featured image, use a default image
06 $default_image=”http://example.com/image.jpg”; //replace
this with a default image on your server or an image in your media
library
07 echo ”;
08 }
09 else{
10 $thumbnail_src = wp_get_attachment_image_src(
get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘medium’ );
11 echo ”;
12 }
13 echo “\n”;
14 }
15 add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘insert_image_src_rel_in_head’, 5 );

Do I need to delete this from functions.php if I do your fix? I would prefer the right image for the right article rather than a default.

Thanks very much. You make me think I’m pretty close…

Yeah you’ll need to put that all in there to get my solution to work. If you can’t get it going you can always email me from my contact form and I can help you out.