Carrd social image

Custom Carrd social images for link previews

Carrd's default share image is a screenshot of the page. In a chat or a social feed that screenshot is small, often cuts off the headline, and does not look like a designed card. A custom Carrd social image replaces it. You generate the image, then upload it under Publish, Media, Share Image. Carrd Pro Lite or higher is required for a share image.

If you are choosing among the default screenshot, a manual Share Image upload, a one-off generate, the API, and MCP, read Carrd OG image: screenshot, Share Image, or a generated file. This page stays the upload how-to. That page is the comparison, with copy-paste steps into an API key and MCP.

Generate a Carrd image from the live Carrd URL. Download the result, open Publish in the Carrd editor, switch to Media, choose Change, and upload the file. Crop it if the edges clip the logo, accept the crop, and publish. The next share should use that file instead of the screenshot.

Check the card, then automate the next one

After publishing, run the Carrd URL through the Open Graph debugger. You want a title, a description, and an og:image that is the file you uploaded, not the old screenshot. Facebook and LinkedIn cache the first card they saw. Use their scrape tools if the debugger shows the new image but the social network still shows the screenshot. X often keeps a card until the cache expires or the image URL changes.

Uploading by hand is enough for one Carrd site. When the page changes often, or you also publish outside Carrd, create the image without the download step. Use the API to build an image URL from your own server. Use MCP when an agent should generate the card from the Carrd URL. You can still upload the downloaded file to Carrd, or host it yourself and point Share Image at that file.

Practical notes

• Aim for 1200 by 630 so the card stays sharp on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Slack, and WhatsApp.
• Keep the headline large. Carrd screenshots shrink body text until it is unreadable.
• Put the brand mark in the image. The Carrd favicon alone is easy to miss in a unfurl.
• If the site was shared before the update, expect a delay until you force a re-scrape.

WordPress sites should use the WordPress open graph plugin instead of this upload flow. Carrd does not run that plugin. The generator, the debugger, the API, and MCP are the same product either way: one branded image, checked before you send the link.