Need: The ability to control the thumbnail to be used when sharing a post with Facebook.
The Catch: I was trying to share a post with Facebook that had no thumbnail attached to it.
Posts Tagged ‘Thumbnail’
How to specify a Facebook thumbnail when sharing a post
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Displaying YouTube Thumbails in Your WordPress Posts
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Since I already wrote the snippet of code to get the thumbnails from the embedded Vimeo video, I thought I might as well do the same for YouTube. It will search through your posts’ content for YouTube embed code and will generate a thumbnail for you. It’s not fancy but it gets the job done.
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Displaying Vimeo Thumbnails In Your Blog Post or Archive
Thursday, January 7th, 2010With WordPress 2.9, you can now embed videos by simply pasting the URL into your blog post and have it create the embed code. I was using Vimeo and wanted to pull the thumbnail associated with the Vimeo video which was embedded in my posts.
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