Photo essay Open Graph Image Template
A photo essay card with a wide image panel, title, and photographer byline.
A photo essay card with a wide image panel, title, and photographer byline.
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Use the Photo essay template when the work is visual and the share card should be too. It leads with a wide framed image over the essay title and a photographer byline, so the card previews the piece the way a magazine spread would. The frame ships as a drawn placeholder, ready to swap for a real photograph whenever you have one.
This template is a metadata image route for the Next.js App Router. The file exports size, contentType, and alt values plus a default async function that returns an ImageResponse. When a page in the segment is shared, satori converts the JSX into an SVG document, the runtime rasterizes that SVG into a 1200 by 630 PNG, and Next.js serves the result and wires the og:image and twitter:image tags into the page head automatically. The placeholder is a bordered panel with a simple inline landscape shape, so the card looks composed before any real image exists.
Install with the shadcn CLI using your Shadcn UI Blocks API key:
npx shadcn@latest add @shadcn-ui-blocks/og-image-photo-essay
The file lands at app/opengraph-image.tsx, which makes it the site wide share card. For an essay you will usually move it into the story segment instead, for example app/essays/[slug]/opengraph-image.tsx. You can also copy the code from this page straight into your project.
The card renders text with Inter, read from assets/fonts at your project root with node:fs so the font files never ship to the browser. Download the latin woff files for weights 400, 500, 600, and 700 from Fontsource and save them as assets/fonts/inter-latin-400-normal.woff and so on.
The content object holds the label chip, the title, the byline, an image count chip, and the url; there is no brand row here, since the photograph carries the identity. To show a real image, replace the framed placeholder block with an img element pointing at an absolute URL, and satori fetches it at render time. Keep the title to about two lines so it clears the frame above and the byline below.
satori supports a focused subset of CSS: flexbox layout only, flat colors, and an explicit display: flex on any element with multiple children. Keep those rules in mind if you rework the layout.