When you're sharing a link or a StoryChief story 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.
Customizing the previews
The process of customizing a link or a StoryChief story preview is easy.
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Step 1: Create a social post and attach a link or story 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:
๐ 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.
Customization option per channel
| Link | Story |
Facebook Page | Native (domain validation) | Native (domain validation) Share domain fallback |
Facebook Group | Not available | Share domain |
LinkedIn Company | Native | Native |
LinkedIn Profile | Native | Native |
Native | Native | |
Not available | Share domain | |
Google My Business | Native | Native |
Slack | Share domain | Share domain |
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 StoryChief story attachments you can also use your StoryChief share domain to do this.
Facebook let's you customize the title, description and image of the preview.
Facebook Group
For StoryChief story attachments you can use the StoryChief share domain.
Regular links can not be tailored.
LinkedIn Company & LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn lets you customize the image and title of the link/story.
For StoryChief story attachments you can use the StoryChief share domain.
Regular Links can not be tailored.
When sharing a link or a StoryChief story to Instagram, you are only sharing its image since links aren't supported by Instagram. The image is fully customizable.
Slack
You can customize the image, title and description on Slack using your StoryChief share domain.
Google My Business
GMB lets you customize the image of the post.