When you publish a new post on your site, Jetpack crawls it and looks for images that can be used when sharing that post on Facebook, on Twitter, or if that post appears in the Top Posts and Pages widget in your sidebar.
Jetpack starts by looking for a Featured Image. If you didn’t define any, we will look for slideshows and galleries, and then for single images you may have inserted in your posts. If you’ve inserted an image that is hosted on another site, we can use it too.
However, sometimes you may not have added any image to your post. In such cases, you can add this code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file, or in a functionality plugin. This way, your readers will see a default image when sharing that post on Facebook, for example:
function jeherve_custom_image( $media, $post_id, $args ) {
if ( empty( $media ) ) {
$permalink = get_permalink( $post_id );
$url = apply_filters( 'jetpack_photon_url', 'YOUR_LOGO_IMG_URL' );
return array( array(
'type' => 'image',
'from' => 'custom_fallback',
'src' => esc_url( $url ),
'href' => $permalink,
) );
}
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_images_get_images', 'jeherve_custom_image', 10, 3 );