Messenger Screenshot?

Started by Shades., January 25, 2022, 01:31:52 PM

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Shades.

Anybody know how to change what my screenshot looks like in FB messenger? When I send my forum link to someone in messenger it shows a screenshot of the default theme and I'd like it to show the theme that I have set as default.

Any tips on this?
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Not 100% sure this applies to messenger, but I think that's configurable for Facebook and you can actually force a refresh to the thumbnail Facebook has saved.
General info: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/images/
Share Debugger (here you should be able to refresh a preview image too): https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
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Quote from: Shades. on January 25, 2022, 01:31:52 PMAnybody know how to change what my screenshot looks like in FB messenger? When I send my forum link to someone in messenger it shows a screenshot of the default theme and I'd like it to show the theme that I have set as default.

Any tips on this?
Looking at the link it seems that it is pulling the thumbnail image from the default theme.

Did you update your thumbnail preview link in languages>settings.english.php ?

Also be sure you have a thumbnail.png in the images folder of your overall theme folder.

theme name folder > images > insert thumbnail.png here

Shades.

Oh crap I forgot to update my thumbnail! >:(  I guess I've been at this so long I need to take a break! ::) Something so simple and I already knew just forgot to do! :o

(For some reason I was thinking that messenger was pulling that from somewhere else....need sleep!)

Thanks guys! 8)
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