Select a featured image for individual pages

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Issue Identified:
Shopify does not natively support setting featured images for individual pages (as opposed to products, collections, or blog posts). This limitation affects social media sharing, where a default site image appears instead of page-specific imagery.

Proposed Workaround:
A developer suggested using metafields to create a page-level image field, then implementing the feature through custom HTML, CSS, and Liquid code.

User Concern:
The original poster expressed frustration that this basic functionality requires custom coding on a platform marketed as user-friendly, especially since featured images are already available for blog posts and products.

Resolution:
The user ultimately found a solution through a related community thread about custom social sharing images for specific pages.

Status:
The discussion concluded with the workaround implemented, though the core feature request for native page-level featured images remains unaddressed by Shopify.

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I’m astounded that it doesn’t appear to be possible to set a featured image for individual pages (not products/collections/blogs).

I’ve seen threads on this dating back at least three years. It’s essential for sharing pages from our site on social media that we be able to select an image to display, instead of the default site image being used.

If I’ve missed something, then I hope someone can point me to this ability. I found a couple of apps but one has two terrible reviews, and the others seem to be working with only product pages.

C’mon Shopify! Bake this in!

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Hey @Allyson9 , you can do this using metafields. So create a page metafield with file type image. With this you get to select different images to show in different pages from page customizer where you add info of the page from the backend.

Once the images are set, you will need to add that image to your pages using a bit of html, css and liquid.

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Hi @Shadab_dev , thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

However, I still don’t understand why it’s possible to set a featured image within a blog post or product post but not on individual pages. Your solution seems like too much custom coding on a platform that is supposed to be more or less plug and play. I left Wordpress to avoid custom coding… and don’t think I should have to do that much work just to add a featured image for a page.

I would love Shopify to weigh in on whether or not they’re going to add this functionality. :grinning_face:

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Well as to the feature not being available that is on the core Shopify developer team.

And as for my response I am sorry if it sounded too intimidating, I was just trying to explain things in a transparent way.

I will try again. It’s not that hard or too much code that you might feel but it will need a bit of custom code to add the image, there’s no workaround on that at least not in my knowledge but it certainly isn’t too much.

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Thanks again @Shadab_dev . I seem to have figured it out via https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/how-can-i-set-custom-social-sharing-images-for-specific-pages/td-p/1145222

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Great @Allyson9 it’s always a great feeling to finding a solution with a bit of self research.