Tutorials
Step-by-step tutorials for building blog cover, featured, and Open Graph images that hold up across every platform.
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What Size Should a YouTube Thumbnail Be?
3840x2160 is the current recommendation, with a 640px floor - not the 1280x720 figure every search result still repeats.
Modern CSS Color for Blog Covers
One brand color can generate the palette, the legible headline, and the light and dark versions. Here is the modern CSS that does it, with a cover as the running example.
How to Make an Open Graph Image for Any Page
Design one 1200×630 picture, keep the subject centered, export it, and point your og:image tag at it.
Featured Image Not Showing in WordPress
Almost always the theme just skips printing it on that template - here is the one-minute test that confirms it.
Why Your Link Preview Is Not Showing Up
The four things that blank a link card, and the two-step fix that clears them.
Export a Retina-Sharp Cover at 2x
Why a cover sized to its slot looks soft on retina, and the one-rule fix.
How to Add a Featured Image in WordPress
Where the setting hides, the Cover-block mix-up, and the image that will not show.