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.

Customize article & link previews
Overview of the available options per Channel

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
LinkedIn Company	Native	Native
LinkedIn Profile	Native	Native
Instagram	Native	Native
Twitter	Not available	Share domain
Google My Business	Native	Native
Slack	Share domain	Share domain

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. LinkedIn Company & LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn lets you customize the image and title of the link/article.

c. Twitter

For article attachments, you can use the StoryChief share domain.
Regular Links can not be tailored.

d. 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.