With Picfair Plus, you can build on your exposure and following - by linking your social media profiles to your Store, adding custom links to your Store menu and having an alternative social media preview! You can link your Store to your blog, website, Instagram, or wherever you like!

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- What are custom links?

Custom links are links to other websites that you can add to your Store’s menu. This is displayed on the left of your Store header, and they can be anything you like. If you want to add a link to your personal blog, or to another website you have, you can add this here.

- Adding custom links to the Store menu

To add custom links to your Store menu, go to the ‘Header & Navigation’ section of your Store Settings.

Under the ‘Header Menu’ section, you can add more links by clicking ‘Add Link’. Here, another window will appear where you can enter the full URL (web address)  of the link you would like to add (for example https://example.blog.com) and you can also enter a name for the link which will appear on your Store menu (for example ‘Blog’).  Selecting the option ‘Open in new tab’ will open the linked page on a new tab of the user’s web browser, so your Picfair Store page will remain on the user’s web browser when they click on one of your custom links.

From this section, you can also edit and delete your custom links at any time.

- Linking social media profiles

Sharing your Store is something we encourage all photographers to do! We find that a large number of image views come through social media so the more places your Store is linked to, the better!

How to link your social media accounts:

Linking your social media accounts to your Plus Store is a great way to increase your social media following by giving visitors the ability to view and connect with your social media accounts. As a Plus user, any link to your social media accounts will appear on the footer on every page of your Plus store. Linking your social media accounts also allows you to share your Store on your social media accounts in a few simple steps with Picfair’s social media sharing tool.

To link your social media accounts go to ‘Account Settings’ and click on ‘Your Account Details’ which will display the page with all of your account information from when you first joined Picfair. At the bottom of this page, you’ll see fields where you can add your social media usernames for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

For Twitter and Instagram, you can link your username for those accounts, for Facebook you can either link a Facebook Page, or your personal Facebook account by linking your personal account’s username. 

Please note, for Facebook, your username may be different to your display name and you can find your account’s username via Facebook settings.

Sharing your Store on your social media accounts:

On your ‘Store Header’ you’ll see the ‘Share’ drop down menu on the right. Here you’ll find links to share your Store on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Email. Your can share your Store homepage, albums and individual images, and remember you can always copy any URL from your Store into your preferred social platforms. Visitors to your Store can also use these links to share your Store too!

Please be aware there may be some limitations on how you can use certain social media platforms depending on what type of account you have. For example, Facebook will no longer let you share to a Facebook business account using Picfair's social share buttons. We try to be as flexible as we can, but please check with the social media platform if it's not working as you'd expect.

- Alternative social media previews

We’re always working hard to make sure Plus users have access to a suite of customizations. We recently made updates to social media previews - the images that appear automatically when you share a link on social media.

All Plus members now have the option to select a specific image to be shared with their links on social media. You can select your favourite photograph, an image of yourself, a branded logo, or whatever you think represents your store best and this can be changed whenever you wish! 

- Adding an alternative social media preview:

When sharing your Store on social, Picfair will use your most recent photo by default. 

To add your social media preview image, you’ll need to head to your Advanced settings via your Store dashboard and simply upload your image file. Please note, your chosen image should be less than 1MB.

We know that sometimes there are delays when changing your social media preview image as each social media site operates differently when updating and refreshing its cache. Please allow up to 48 hours for your social media preview to showcase if you’re not seeing immediate changes.

We hope you've found this guide useful. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us here. 

For more guides and Picfair Plus tutorials, see also:

- Index
- Setting up your Picfair Plus Store
- Custom Logos for Picfair Plus
- Albums for your Picfair Plus Store
- Adding a Custom Print Commission
- Adding a Welcome Splash Page

- Bio Text for your Picfair Plus Store

- Watermarks for Picfair Plus Stores

- Linking a Custom Domain to your Picfair Plus Store

- In-Store Search for Picfair Plus Stores

- Introducing Focus