From 67ba6bb820fb6f689fe85b11ce03c02796232e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <baris@nodebb.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:26:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] closes #5977

---
 src/controllers/topics.js | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/controllers/topics.js b/src/controllers/topics.js
index 347ae8e847..d3a4846390 100644
--- a/src/controllers/topics.js
+++ b/src/controllers/topics.js
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ function addTags(topicData, req, res) {
 	var ogImageUrl = '';
 	if (topicData.thumb) {
 		ogImageUrl = topicData.thumb;
+	} else if (topicData.category.backgroundImage && (!postAtIndex || !postAtIndex.index)) {
+		ogImageUrl = topicData.category.backgroundImage;
 	} else if (postAtIndex && postAtIndex.user && postAtIndex.user.picture) {
 		ogImageUrl = postAtIndex.user.picture;
 	} else if (meta.config['og:image']) {