Featured image and thumbnail

[aeadams]

What part of a page build do I need to populate to ensure that there is a thumbnail image available for a link preview on social media (such as LinkedIn)? In the "Images" tab of a page template, I see "Featured image" and "Thumbnail" - do these both need to have an image in them?

[EstebanBustamante · Accepted solution]

Hi @aeadams 

The thumbnails in social media are generated by Open Graph meta tags. You can learn more about them here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/open-graph-meta-tags/. As far as I know, these meta tags need to be manually set up by you. You can find examples of how to do it here:

1. https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/create-custom-meta-tag-in-...
2. https://www.albinsblog.com/2018/12/how-to-enable-authors-to-override-or-add-metatags-aem.html

Hope this information is helpful.

[aeadams]

@EstebanBustamante Thank you!

[kautuk_sahni]

@aeadams Do you find the suggestion from Esteban useful? Please let us know if more information is required. Otherwise, please mark the answer as correct for posterity. 

[aeadams]

@kautuk_sahni Yes thank you!

[Dipti_Chauhan]

As Esteban mentioned , social sharing image thumbnail is derived from open graph tag <og:image> and twitter:image for twitter tile. And its depends on you what image you need to put for these meta tags.

Thanks

Dipti