When you're sharing a link or a StoryChief article to your social media accounts, you might want to customize the preview of it, either because the current preview image is not attractive enough for social media, or because there isn't any preview image showing.
In this article you'll find.
Start customizing the previews
1. Customize article & link previews
The process of customizing a link or an article preview is easy.
Step 1: Create a social post and attach a link or article to it. You'll notice that a preview appears:
Step 2: Hover over the preview of the master post and click on Modify preview. A sidebar will appear:
🔔 Note: You can do the same thing over each individual post if you only want to customize a single channel. To do this, scroll down to the 'Tailor by channel' section and hover over the specific image to find the 'modify preview' button as explained above.
Step 3: Fill in the image, title and/or description and click save.
2. Customization option per channel
| Link | Article |
Facebook Page | Native (domain validation) ⚠️ | Native (domain validation) ⚠️ Share domain fallback |
Links are not available ❌ | Links are not available ❌ | |
LinkedIn Company | Native ✅ | Native ✅ |
LinkedIn Profile | Native ✅ | Native ✅ |
X (Twitter) | Not available ❌ | Share domain ✅ |
Native ✅ | Native ✅ | |
Google My Business | Native ✅ | Native ✅ |
Slack | Share domain | Share domain ✅ |
Threads | Not available ❌ | Share domain ✅ |
Bluesky | Native ✅ | Native ✅ |
a. Facebook Page
Facebook requires you to validate the domain of the link you want to share before you can change it. Read how to validate your domain here. For article attachments, you can also use your StoryChief share domain to do this.
Facebook lets you customize the title, description and image of the preview.
b. Instagram
When sharing a link or an article to Instagram, you are only sharing its image since links aren't supported by Instagram. The image is fully customizable.
c. LinkedIn Company & LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn lets you customize the image and title of the link/article.
c. X (Twitter)
For article attachments, you can use the StoryChief share domain.
Regular Links can not be tailored.
d. Pinterest
Pinterest lets you customize the image and title of the link/article.
e. Google Business Profile
Google Business lets you customize the image and title of the link/article.
f. Slack
You can customize the image, title and description on Slack using your StoryChief share domain.
g. Google My Business
GMB lets you customize the image of the post.
h. Threads
For article attachments, you can use the StoryChief share domain.
Regular Links can not be tailored.
i. Bluesky
Bluesky lets you customize the image and title of the link/article.
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