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Hi guys, i want to put on my every page an image to represent my website, like wordpress when you share on facebook etc, it's the content part and bellow it's image from his post, i want to do something like this.

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Quick clarification: the small icon that appears in the browser tab is a favicon (what and described). The image you see when a link is shared on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc. is controlled by Open Graph and (for Twitter/X) Twitter Card metadata — not the favicon. was right to suggest using a full URL and re-checking the platform cache. (ogp.me)

Checklist to make a share image work reliably:

  • Use absolute HTTPS URLs for all meta image tags and place them in the page <head>.
  • Ensure the image file is publicly reachable (HTTP 200), served with an image content-type, and not blocked by robots.txt or authentication.
  • Use a high-quality image sized for social previews: aim for ~1200×630 px (1.91:1) for best cross-platform results; keep file size under a few megabytes (platforms may have limits). Provide explicit width/height tags so scrapers know the image dimensions. (ogimage.io)

Quick troubleshooting steps:

  • Test accessibility with curl using the social crawler user-agent to confirm the image is reachable and returns 200 + correct Content-Type.
  • Make sure your OG/Twitter tags are rendered in the HTML (not inserted only by client-side JS).
  • After changes, force a re-scrape with each platform’s validator/debugger (this clears cached preview data) — the debugger tip from is the usual fix when a new image doesn’t appear. (ogp.me)

Example snippets and a test command (replace with your real URL and handle):

<meta property="og:title" content="Page title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Short description" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://example.com/page/" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/assets/share-1200x630.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1200" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="630" />

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@YourHandle" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://example.com/assets/share-1200x630.jpg" />

Test image fetch (mimics Facebook crawler):

curl -I -A "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)" https://example.com/assets/share-1200x630.jpg

If the curl shows 200 and a valid image Content-Type, but previews still fail, re-run the platform debugger/inspector to force a fresh scrape. (ogp.me)

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Member Avatar for Member #1116915

Hi cristian. What I believe you're talking about is called a "favicon," not to be confused with "emoticon." I've never done this before, but I knew what you were talking about, so I looked it up for you. You can find out how to put a favicon in your address bar on this site:
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/110599i.html

There are two methods, one of which is supposedly easier than the other.

Member Avatar for cristian.stilpeanu.1_1

daniuser neah not favicon:) to easy, it's about pixelsoul talk but i don't have platform like wordpress etc., og:image work's on whatever platform?

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i used <meta property="og:image" content="myimage.jpg"/> but still dosen't work

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I believe there is a bit of a delay on Facebook's side. After you add it to the page, test it out a little later like tomorrow, and see if it works. Also, you might want to put a full url to the image in the meta tag.

Here's another good blog article on it http://davidwalsh.name/facebook-meta-tags

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its called a faivon use this code <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/ico"/>
to create a favicon u can use this website

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