Sharing YouTube video on Facebook - force https thumbnail?
I have a hosted website running Wordpress and a plugin that places recent posts from my Facebook page and Twitter feeds onto a specific page.
I am trying to move my site to using https. It is on a dedicated IP with a private SSL certificate.
If I share a YouTube video onto my Facebook page, although the link to the video itself may be an https link, the thumbnail image always appears to be from the non-secure YouTube URL
This is the YouTube video in question in this instance:-
https://www.youtube.com/wa
When I paste this URL into Facebook, the thumbnail image that is shown is:-
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PAD_
Subsequently, when the plugin loads my social media feeds, my site loses it's padlock because of the YouTube image.
Is there a way to force thumbnails from https://i.ytimg.com rather than http://i.ytimg.com ?
I am trying to move my site to using https. It is on a dedicated IP with a private SSL certificate.
If I share a YouTube video onto my Facebook page, although the link to the video itself may be an https link, the thumbnail image always appears to be from the non-secure YouTube URL
This is the YouTube video in question in this instance:-
https://www.youtube.com/wa
When I paste this URL into Facebook, the thumbnail image that is shown is:-
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PAD_
Subsequently, when the plugin loads my social media feeds, my site loses it's padlock because of the YouTube image.
Is there a way to force thumbnails from https://i.ytimg.com rather than http://i.ytimg.com ?
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Look at the url= properties:-
http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2
It seems to be this that is causing me the problem.
http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2
It seems to be this that is causing me the problem.
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is the link that I got when I click on the thumbnail properties