Custom Image_Src
Specify a custom sharing image for Facebook. You can upload an image, use the first image in the post, or use the post thumbnail.
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·100 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, Custom Image_Src is a WordPress facebook plugin with 100 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Meta for WooCommerce.
0/5Rating
100active installs
11K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
If you’re sharing a link to a blog post on Facebook, having a thumbnail image makes for a much more effective share. If you have an image in the body of your post, Facebook will use that as the share image, but what if you don’t have any images in your post or want to specify an image you’re not using in the content? To solve this problem, I created a WordPress plugin that allows you to control which image shows when a link from your WordPress site is shared on Facebook.
- Thanks to Dimas Begunoff for the amazingly helpful WPAlchemy MetaBox PHP Class.
- I’m using the
<link rel="image_src" href="…" />approach. If you’re adding more Open Graph meta tags to your<head>, you’d probably want to use<meta property="og:image" content="…" />, but in that case you probably also don…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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