Facebook isn’t using my featured image when I link to a post

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UPDATED AGAIN BELOW: I’ve seen various methods for getting facebook to use the desired image as the thumbnail for a wordpress post but they are convoluted or involve installing a plugin. On my other sites this has simply worked. But on this post on my newest site, facebook isn’t using the featured image and is only using the site logo. Any ideas? Thanks!

[https://route11news.com/2023/08/30/highlights-13th-annual-middletown-va-car-truck-and-tractor-show/])

UPDATE: ~~Switching from Ollie theme to the default Twenty Twenty Three theme fixed the issue. Not sure why that impacted it. I was getting the error that OG:Image wasn’t explicitly stated in facebook debugger. Ollie is otherwise nice looking. I’ll have to doctor up the default theme into something good looking~~.

UPDATE 2: It went back to not using the featured image and using the debugger still gives me the “The ‘og:image’ property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.” [https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Froute11news.com%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Fhighlights-13th-annual-middletown-va-car-truck-and-tractor-show%2F])

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