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When someone shares a link to your site — on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Slack, iMessage — the platform fetches your page and looks for a share image (an Open Graph image). Sites without one get an ugly fallback: a cropped logo, a gray box, or nothing. Every Hiveku site ships a share card by default. You don’t have to do anything to get one, and anything custom you add always wins.

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What You Get by Default

  • A branded 1200 x 630 share card carrying your site’s name, generated at deploy time for every page.
  • Correct social metadata across the board — share image, canonical URL, and Twitter card tags — on server-rendered and static sites.
  • Pages that customize other social fields (say, a per-page share title) still get the image — the site’s default card fills in wherever a page doesn’t bring its own.
The default is deliberately shy: it only appears when your project has no custom card of its own. The moment you add one — a custom share image file, an image set in your page’s SEO settings, or share images defined in your site’s code — the default steps aside for it.

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Customizing

Each page’s SEO settings include social share fields — title, description, and an OG Image URL. Set an image there and that page shares with it. See SEO basics for where the SEO settings live.
Changes take effect on your next deploy — share cards are assembled when your site builds. Paste your URL into the platform’s own preview tool:
  • Facebook — Sharing Debugger
  • LinkedIn — Post Inspector
  • X — Card Validator
These tools show exactly what the platform sees, and double as a cache refresh (see below).
Social platforms cache their scrape of your page — often for weeks. If you change your share card and an old preview keeps appearing, that’s the platform’s cache, not your site. Run the URL through the platform’s debugger tool to force a fresh scrape.

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Troubleshooting

Almost always the platform’s scrape cache. Use the debugger tool for that platform to re-scrape. If the debugger shows the new image but shares still show the old one, wait — some surfaces update on a delay.
That page probably defines its own social metadata without an image, in a way that overrides the site-wide card. Ask the AI to “make sure every page inherits the site share image” — it will find and update the offending page.

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What’s Next?

SEO Basics

Titles, descriptions, and the rest of your pages’ metadata

Deployments

When and how your changes reach the live site