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when i link my site on facebook, the only image i get is the sitelock pic. how can i change it?

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when i link my site on FB (or even when using the fb like links on my site) it shows the sitelock picture, and its not very attractive... how can i change that?
 
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
You can add Open Graph Meta tags to set a specific image to be displayed. See a reference here:https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/...
In your case you would add: 
<meta property="og:image" content="http://yourdomain.com/img.png" />
dkwolf replied on at Permalink Reply
i just tried that, and iv been playing around with the facebook developer routine tring to figure it out, but i did put in an image and every..... but when you go to the site to like it, it still puts up the sitelocker image..

any chance you could help me further? thanks
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
Can you provide a link to your website?
dkwolf replied on at Permalink Reply
www.nfw-stories.com

thanks a lot
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
Sorry, I can't discover a "og:image" tag anywhere in your source. Did you add it to your template?
dkwolf replied on at Permalink Reply
im terribly sorry, im not affluent in internet terms at all. any posibility i could give you the log in information for my website and you could do it for me? or if you could explain the steps simply enough that even a toddler could do it.

im absoluetly lost, i tried to do what you did but didnt know where to input that code or what to put into it or anything. im sorry. thanks a lot though
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
Well, you should have a file like this:
themes/themename/elements/header.php
You have to find it and add the code there.

I could also do it for you at my regular hourly rate. Send me a PM if you want that.