If you’re involved with social media sites like Digg, Facebbok or Reddit, you’ve probably seen stories with images next to them. If you’ve submitted stories there, you may have seen it present you with a few image choices, sometimes the one you want is there sometimes it isn’t. Then there’s the the case where the social media site chooses the image on it’s own, and it’s a crappy image or worse yet an ad … dooming your story to failure. Did you know there’s a way to fix that problem?
Many social media sites like Digg and Facebook work with what’s called the facebook share standard, so you can tell these services which image you’d prefer they use. This tutorial deals specifically with Thesis, but again can be used on any wordpress blog, but remeber things are just easier with thesis 
We need to open up custom_functions.php and add the following code:
// facebook connect digg social media image
function get_social_img() {
global $post;
if ( is_single ()){
$image = “”;
$image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘thesis_post_image’, $single = true);
?>
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Make Thesis Work Better With Digg and Facebook
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