Have you wondered how to get a perfect image from your blog when you share your post on social media? I have... and after spending several weeks on this; I think that I have managed to figure it out...

Over the course of the last few months, I have spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to effectively share my content on social media sites. I had thought to simply share the image at the top of each post, but I didn't get the size of the image right. The proper image size was different for each social media platform. Finding the proper sizes between the social media platforms was daunting. The information available on the net is often contradictory, and constantly subject to change. Figuring out the proper approach necessitates aiming at a constantly moving target. What worked several months ago might not work the same now. After failing at my initial attempt; I reverted the Galaxie Blog code and used the same default social media image that tended to work for every post. While I was sick of looking at the same mountain logo on every social media post (I assume along with my three regular readers), I had more pressing tasks to deal with. There have been a lot of other features that I wanted to put into this blog first, and wanted to wait until I could take a few weeks to devote to learn by trial and error to get this social media image sharing thing right. There are also other considerations other than just manipulating the image. The social media platforms need to have certain meta tags. After spending the last couple of weeks I found a good approach to solve this. In the next several posts, I will share my journey with you and show you my Galaxie blog implementation. Along the way, I'll provide some ColdFusion scripts for you to resize your own images for social media sharing on your own. Additionally, I hope to provide you some helpful tips.