# Social Sharing Preview Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795>\
**Category:** Ready to publish\
**Created:** [October 28, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795 "2024-10-28T09:13:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![nvard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/nvard/32/129_2.png) [@nvard](https://forum.readymag.com/u/nvard)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/1 "2024-10-28T09:13:23Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m facing an issue with sharing my project on social media. Specifically, I’m encountering two main problems:

1. Readymag is generating a grey image, instead of using the page’s screenshot as the preview image. The grey image is not visible either while sharing, it’s only in the Sharing settings.

2. When I upload a custom preview image, it doesn’t display.

The Facebook Debugger also shows this error:

‘URL returned a bad HTTP response code.’

This project is published on Readymag and isn’t connected to any domain.

I’ve reached out to Readymag support back in August and followed up last week, but they haven’t found a solution yet. Their tech team hasn’t looked into the bug either.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues—particularly with missing previews and bad HTTP response codes? Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Samus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/samus/32/1146_2.png) [@Samus](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Samus)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/2 "2024-11-11T22:40:20Z")

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Can you share more details? What’s your website’s link? Do you get that on every social platform?

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**Author:** ![nvard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/nvard/32/129_2.png) [@nvard](https://forum.readymag.com/u/nvard)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/3 "2024-11-19T11:18:09Z")

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Hi @Samus, yes, I get it on all social networks.  
the website is [www.nvardyerkanian.com](http://www.nvardyerkanian.com)  
For the homepage, I have uploaded an image, so it has a preview when shared, but because I have more than 80 pages, and I want each page to have its own preview, I don’t use this same image.  
Previously on other websites I created on Readymag, I used the autogenerated Open Graph image (screenshot of that page), but now it’s not working.  
Same for client websites.

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**Author:** ![Samus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/samus/32/1146_2.png) [@Samus](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Samus)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/4 "2024-11-20T00:35:16Z")

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Mmm, the preview looks fine when sharing the link you shared:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/readymag/original/2X/7/711820def8c89e27347b785531a59b57c2417afb.png)

Maybe you figured it out already?

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**Author:** ![nvard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/nvard/32/129_2.png) [@nvard](https://forum.readymag.com/u/nvard)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/5 "2024-11-27T20:23:02Z")

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Not on all pages. i’ve uploaded an image for home page, but if you try to share other pages, like projects, etc. there is no preview.

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**Author:** ![Samus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/samus/32/1146_2.png) [@Samus](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Samus)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/6 "2025-01-16T16:06:54Z")

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Did you try the debuggers Readymag suggest [here](https://help.readymag.com/hc/en-us/articles/7860330610971-Sharing)?

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**Author:** ![nvard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/nvard/32/129_2.png) [@nvard](https://forum.readymag.com/u/nvard)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/7 "2025-01-26T16:27:13Z")

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I did, it doesn’t work ☹

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**Author:** ![Samus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/samus/32/1146_2.png) [@Samus](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Samus)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/social-sharing-preview-problem/3795/8 "2025-01-27T19:07:56Z")

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A few things that comes to mind:

- try republishing each page (edit something on the page, republish).
- try duplicating the page (if the new one works, delete the old one)
- try duplicating the whole project (same as above).
