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title: How To Add A Preview Image To Your Virtual Tour – WPVR
description: "If you’ve turned off the autoload option for your virtual tour, a netted placeholder with a **Click to Load Panorama** option will appear on the page where you’ve published a tour. Here is what it looks like: ![Virtual Tour -…"
url: "https://rextheme.com/docs/wpvr-add-a-preview-image-virtual-tour-wpvr/"
updated: "2025-10-08"
category: "WP VR / How To - Basic Settings"
---

# How To Add A Preview Image To Your Virtual Tour – WPVR

If you’ve turned off the autoload option for your virtual tour, a netted placeholder with a **Click to Load Panorama** option will appear on the page where you’ve published a tour.

Here is what it looks like:

![Virtual Tour - Autoload Turned Off](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/05.png)

You can set a preview image or a cover image on this virtual tour.

Suppose you created a virtual tour of your property, then you can set a flat image of the entrance of that property as the preview image.

You can also use your company banner as the preview image.

With WPVR, you can set a preview image on your virtual tour easily with only a few steps.

So, let’s see how can you set a preview image on virtual tours.

## **Add A Preview Image To Your Virtual Tour**

Follow these simple steps to add a preview image to your virtual tours:

1. While creating or editing a virtual tour, on the **Settings** tab, go to **Basic Settings**.

[![Basic Settings](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Edit-Tour-Real-Estate-Showcase-‹-WPVR-Testing-—-WordPress.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Edit-Tour-Real-Estate-Showcase-‹-WPVR-Testing-—-WordPress.png)

2. Here you will see a section called “**Set a Tour Preview Image**”.

Click on it to upload or choose an image to set it as a preview image.

[![Tour-preview image](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Tour-preview.png-1085×686.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Tour-preview.png-1085×686.png)

3. After uploading the image, a thumbnail of that image will appear.

[![Tour Autoload](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tour-Autoload-.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tour-Autoload-.png)

Now turn off the **Tour Autoload** option right below.

**Your tour preview image will not appear if the **Tour Autoload** option is turned on.

4. Now go to the **Scenes** section and click on the **Preview** button to have a live preview of your tour.

[![Preview](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Preview.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Preview.png)

Now, in the Tour Preview section, the preview image will appear instead of the actual scene.

5. Publish the tour on your website and it will appear like this.

[![Click to load](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Click-to-load.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Click-to-load.png)

Click on the **Click to Load Panorama** option in the middle of the window to load the tour.

That’s it. You’ve successfully added a preview image on your tour.

It’s really easy and simple.