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Change which project appears as profile link thumbnail

A topic by Rachel created 80 days ago Views: 223 Replies: 4
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How do I select which of my projects appears as the thumbnail when I share a link to my itch.io profile? I just uploaded some small assets, and it seems like the most recent project gets automatically set, but I’d much prefer my current major project be shown instead for marketing purposes.

I tried searching for an answer, but all I could find was this post on this forum, which got closed and archived with NO responses

A search engine AI answered by telling me how to add my projects to collections and select which collections are featured on my profile, but that doesn’t affect the thumbnail.

Edit: Spelling & Grammar

For anyone wondering whether this post answers my question: No, it does not. That only affects the thumbnail for the specific project not my user profile.

For example, linking my profile (as of right now, May 2nd, 2025) displays a thumbnail for my chain link fence asset, not exactly the most impressive or click-attracting image..

Update: Google told me to change my profile banner and that would change my profile URL preview. That also did not work.

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My current assumption would be that it pulls this from either your dashboard (recent one), your itch profile page (recent one), or your creator page (recent one).

Now the issue is that you cannot really change any of those in terms of order, except for the last one, your creator page (where you can also decide to display collections). You said you already tried around with those collections, but did you also try to re-arrange the order your projects at the top (so those without an actual "collection") are displayed?  You can hide and re-arrange your own projects specifically by selecting "Change Theme" at the top left and look under "My Projects" in the appearing sidebar. Best case scenario, by setting the project you want to show in your profile-link to be the first one (so the most top left), it will also influence the thumbnail for your link.

If that doesn't work, I am afraid I'm not sure if you can really have much of an influence on that within itch.io's current system.

Aaaaah it worked! Thank you Salbei. Indeed the way to do this is to change that project list order on “edit theme” of profile page.

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