Facebook post previewer

A Facebook post previewer renders your post the way a Page timeline will: your text above the media, the album grid Facebook builds from however many photos you attached, and the Reel or Story canvas with Facebook’s own overlays on top.

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The album grid changes shape with the photo count

Facebook does not lay out four photos the way it lays out two. Two photos sit side by side as squares. Three or four give you one 5:4 photo on top with the rest in a row of squares underneath. From five on, the top row carries two squares and three tiles go below, and the last tile takes a "+N" badge for everything that did not fit.

That matters because the square tiles crop. A tall product shot dropped into a row of squares loses its top and bottom, and you find out after publishing. Adding or removing one photo reshuffles the whole grid, which is the fastest way to accidentally crop the one image that mattered.

An album holds up to 20 photos and the text field takes 63,206 characters, so length is never the constraint on Facebook. Layout is.

Links, Reels and Stories

Facebook builds a link preview card from the first URL in your text, so a post with two links previews the first one and the reader may never notice the second. If the card is the point of the post, put that URL first.

Facebook unified its video uploads under Reels, and a Story is a separate full screen canvas with no caption field at all. Both paint their own interface over your media: a progress bar and a profile row at the top, a reply field and buttons at the bottom. Preview those two formats with the actual file, not with a template.

Before you publish

  • Count your photos before you write the caption. Two, four and six photos each produce a different grid, and the tiles crop.
  • Put the URL you want previewed first. Facebook builds the card from the first link it finds.
  • Facebook Stories carry no caption, so any words you need read have to be burned into the image or video.
  • A Page post and a personal profile post look the same in a preview but not in reach. Connect the Page you actually publish from.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Facebook post previewer from PublishQ

Write your text and attach your photos or video on this page. The Facebook card on the right renders the same album grid, link card and Reel or Story canvas a timeline would show, straight in your browser with no login.
Facebook builds the album layout from the number of photos, not from the order you care about. Two photos become side by side squares, three or four become a lead photo plus a row, and five or more get two lead squares plus tiles with a "+N" badge on the last one.
A Facebook post takes 63,206 characters, which is far more than anyone reads. The timeline collapses long text behind a "See more" link, so the opening lines are what decide whether the rest gets read.
Up to 20 in a single album. The grid Facebook builds changes at two, three and five photos, so the count you choose changes which images get cropped.
Yes. Attach a single video for the Reel canvas, or switch to Story for the vertical Story layout. Both are shown with Facebook’s own overlays so you can see what the interface covers.
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