How to choose which picture in a story gets posted to Facebook?

When I like a story and it is posted to my Facebook, I do not see a mechanism to choose which picture in a particular story is posted. This is a problem for me for two reasons: 1) we have paid advertising, and the highest package includes being able to have visibility on our Facebook page. However, when I like a story, it often posts an advertisement as the picture on Facebook, regardless of whether or not they are supposed to have Facebook visibility. Problem 2) *a bigger problem* is that people have liked a story that my husband wrote on the economy that has a definite political slant. By pulling ads along with it, there is the perception that the particular advertiser is either in agreement with our political stance or that they themselves have posted the story since it's right next to a picture of their business. The story has a picture at the top, it's just not being posted. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the quick and thorough response. We use iJoomla Magazine and iJoomla Ad Agency. I've noticed that when various people like a story, it takes the top ad up to Facebook, not just a random advertisement. Is there some way to allow the magazine or core Joomla to take precedence over the Ad Agency? Probably not, because that would be easy. I already had the Open Graph > First Image set to yes. My concern with your explanation is that I see it as a much more cumbersome process for me to publish stories. I currently don't have to go into the HTML at all, I just paste the text in and insert the picture. I don't add any tags to each story.

You say:
"In the Open Graph section, there's also an option to pull the first image from an article. That option may work well for you too. You can also use it in conjunction with the Open Graph tags above.. if no explicit {JFBCGraph image=xxx} tag is set on the page, the first article will be used."

This makes me think that based on the selection I've made to have it choose the first image, it should be the correct image that goes with the story, not the advertisements. What am I missing?

Thank you. The vast majority of my stories are standard Joomla article view. I added the generic logo tag that you suggested I add to the Open Graph, but when I tested a couple (which I then removed the FB posts because it's 11pm and I want to freshly like those stories during reading hours), the results were inconsistent.

This link worked fine and pulled up the pictures of the antique dishes.
westminstervine.net/index.php/new-stories/1539-what-is-that-

This link brought up an advertisement
westminstervine.net/index.php/new-storie...host-golf-tournament

This one has been liked by a couple different people and the 'picture' they bring up varies, but it's always an advertisement.

Thank you. Re: which version I am using, my husband installed it just about two weeks ago. I had been bugging him for a couple months on it. I suspect he clicked the link that I had sent him and not checked for updates before installing, since our install is brand new. Grrr.

You said: There are no Open Graph tags on the pages you linked. Can you double check that Open Graph integration is actually enabled in the Social configuration area?

You are right on that one, I did not have the OG integration enabled. I enabled it, then went into one of the stories I had an issue with. I didn’t see any tags before the image itself, or anywhere in the story for that matter. Always one to ‘start fresh’, I created a new story, and liked it. Story link: westminstervine.net/index.php/new-storie...d-spicy-skillet-corn
Again, this brought an advertisement with it to Facebook.

I never did find any plug-ins related to Ad Agency, so reordering related to that was not so easy. The JFBC System plug-in was already at the 0 position.

I used the Linter tool and the ‘Warning: Required Property Is Missing’ message said: ‘og: type is required’

Also, I thought this was interesting (because the first one is an ad that I didn’t want to appear). The second image is my logo, so that’s good that it seems to have set a default if no ‘first image’ is available, but it continues to ignore that first (and second) image.

Extracted 2 values from <meta property="og:image" />: westminstervine.net//images/stories/ad_agency/62/Heidi Couture block.jpg, westminstervine.net/images/stories/igall...-with-black-type.jpg

I would be happy to provide you with my user credentials--maybe I'm missing something very obvious on the back end.

I remain stumped.

New story, posted last night and now that I know where to look for those tags (in the URL box), I don't see any of my stories that have those tags, and the ads are still being posted. When I linted it, again it showed the ad and 'og: type is required'....should I still be patient that I may still be in the 24 - 72 hours window?

westminstervine.net/index.php/new-storie...true-story-this-week