After upgrading to 4.4, when I share a post via URL to Facebook, G+, the “Featured Image” shows as a blank white image on the Facebook post. Looks fine on the WordPress site.
Some testing shows that WordPress sends the full resolution photo to Facebook, so maybe it’s too large for Facebook?
I suspect something changes in the way WordPress shares images with the new Responsive image feature in 4.4x .
Here’s my facebook home, look for the post labelled “Test Post” about Mac & Cheese.
https://www.facebook.com/gordwait
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Facebook’s URL Debugger (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/) finds the image just fine and I am able to share with the image. It could be that the image was somehow not there or not accessible when you first tried to share the URL. I would try to share it again and see if it works now.
FYI, if you run into issues in the future, use the debug tool linked above and after retrieving the URL click “Fetch new scrape information”. This can clear the Facebook cached info for your URL. This can be very useful if you add or change an image after the post has been shared the first time.
