: Facebook thumbnail of my wordpress website disappear after a while. Any idea why? I have a page with OpenGraph meta tags and when I first published the page it worked like a charm: https://stargazerrock.com/stargazer-defini

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I have a page with OpenGraph meta tags and when I first published the page it worked like a charm:
stargazerrock.com/stargazer-definition/
Now, after a few weeks, somehow my post does not show the image at all. (it shows a gray rectangle, though.)

The Facebook debug tool, here:
developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
does show the image correctly.

This happens with many of my Wordpress & Drupal posts, which is problematic.

Remember what I said: at first it works. It's only after a while when I go back to my page that somehow the image is gone.

An example of such a post is this one (although I reposted in an attempt to fix the problem, but nothing got fixed, it's still missing the picture.)
www.facebook.com/StargazerRock/posts/1298528993624239
If it were just one post, I would ignore the problem, but now it's been like 10 posts that lost their image.

Important Note: I do my Facebook posting manually as I know that using a tool, or even just AddThis.com can create problems to the posts. That's also how I know that it worked the first time I posted. I also first use the debug too mentioned above to make sure I get a thumbnail.

As a side note: I noticed a similar problem on Twitter, but I've noticed that with many websites (not just mine) so I'm less worried about that one at the moment.



From 's answer, I see that the debugger uses a different CDN than the one used when I post:
external.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php ?d=AQD6wD86Mtgq9AOg
&w=540
&h=282
&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstargazerrock.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2Fstar-gazers-on-fence.jpg
&cfs=1
&upscale=1
&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher
&_nc_hash=AQBCV5QWsIV2g_q6

vs
external-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php ?d=AQARAAMY4iCsZ3kW
&w=476
&h=249
&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstargazerrock.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2Fstar-gazers-on-fence.jpg
&cfs=1
&upscale=1
&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher
&_nc_hash=AQAeGBKWZLbtEZ8g


The main domain, the d and the _nc_hash parameters differ. The debugger is supposed to clear the cache, I'm wondering why would it miss that other server. But I would imagine that it's a bug at Facebook... unfortunately.

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