Your Social Links Look Broken — Fix Your Open Graph Image
When someone shares your site on social media or messaging apps, the preview card is your first impression. Missing or incorrect Open Graph tags can lead to blurry images, random crops, or blank previews—making your site look unpolished. This guide shows how to fix your OG image fast and how StoryPress keeps your social previews clean and on-brand.
What You’ll Learn in This Post
Why your link previews look wrong
What Open Graph tags do
Common builder issues that break social previews
How StoryPress fixes OG metadata (and what you can customize)
What makes a good OG image
How to test your preview instantly
When someone shares your website on Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, or iMessage, the first impression isn’t your homepage—it’s the preview card. And for most small businesses, that preview is… not great.
Blurry images. Random crops. Generic text. Or nothing at all.
The good news: this is one of the easiest high‑impact fixes you can make.
Why Your Link Looks Wrong
If your shared link displays the wrong image or text, it’s not the platform’s fault. It’s caused by missing or incorrect Open Graph (OG) tags—the metadata social networks use to build preview cards.
Without OG tags, platforms guess. And they usually guess wrong.
What Open Graph Tags Do (Plain English)
Open Graph tags tell social platforms exactly what to show when your URL is shared.
Every StoryPress content type—pages, posts, and collections—lets you define:
OG Title — the headline shown in shares
OG Description — the summary text
OG Image — the visual preview
OG URL — the page’s canonical link
If these fields aren’t set, your preview may look unprofessional or inconsistent.
Why DIY Builders Often Break Social Previews
Common issues on Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, and hosted WordPress include:
OG settings buried in multiple menus
Auto-generated images that crop badly
Per-page overrides hidden or unclear
Theme or plugin conflicts
No system‑wide defaults for metadata
The result: pages across your site produce inconsistent previews.
How StoryPress Fixes Social Metadata
StoryPress avoids the typical pitfalls by giving every content type clean metadata defaults and simple override fields.
Clean defaults everywhere: StoryPress ships with the correct OG tag structure already in place. You’re never left with a blank or broken preview.
Page, post, and collection controls: Every content item includes dedicated fields to set a custom OG Image, Title, and Description.
Brand color auto-applied: Your preview cards inherit your site’s primary color, keeping your brand consistent.
No plugins or coding required: Everything is handled through StoryPress’s native meta fields.
What Makes a Good OG Image
A quick checklist:
1200×630 recommended (1.91:1 ratio)
Minimal text (platforms crop aggressively)
High contrast so it reads at small sizes
Center-focused imagery
Avoid placing text near edges
Clean, bold visuals perform best.
Quick Test: See What Your Preview Looks Like
Paste your URL into these tools:
iMessage
Facebook Sharing Debugger
LinkedIn Post Inspector
You’ll see the exact card others see when sharing your site.
If something looks off, update your meta tag fields in StoryPress—it takes less than a minute.
Final Thought
Your website can look polished everywhere it’s shared—not just on your homepage. StoryPress gives you clean defaults and simple controls so your social previews always match your brand.
Try your URL in a preview tool and see the difference.
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