How to embed Behance on your website
Behance is your Behance projects displayed on your own website, used by graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and creative professionals. Here's how to put it on your own website, which embed option to pick, and what goes wrong.
Quick answer
Get the code from Behance's embed options on a project, plus your public profile URL for linking. For most people the right choice is the project embed — a specific project displayed on your page. Paste it into a code or embed block on your site — not a plain text field — then place it beside your main call to action and test the whole flow on a phone before relying on it.
Behance: which option to use
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Project embed | A specific project displayed on your page. |
| Profile link | A link to your Behance portfolio behind a button. |
| Direct upload | Putting the work on your own site, which is almost always better for a portfolio. |
Step-by-step
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Find the code or link in your account
Behance keeps this in Behance's embed options on a project, plus your public profile URL for linking. Copy what you need before touching your website — most of the time people lose is spent hunting for the snippet, not installing it.
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Pick the right option for the job
The table above is the decision. Project embed: A specific project displayed on your page. Profile link: A link to your Behance portfolio behind a button. Choosing before you paste saves rebuilding the section later.
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Paste it into a code or embed block
This needs an HTML, code or embed block — not a plain text field, where the code will simply appear as text on your page. On Adviita, ask the AI editor to add an embed section and drop the code in. On WordPress use a Custom HTML block, on Squarespace a Code block (Business plan or above), and on Wix an Embed HTML element.
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Put it where the decision happens
Embedded social content is decoration unless it earns its place — it costs page speed, so make it count. A widget three scrolls down does a fraction of the work of the same widget beside your main call to action. Decide what the page is for, then place it at the point the visitor is deciding.
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Check it on an actual phone
Most visitors to a small business website arrive on a phone, and embeds are where mobile layouts break. Open your live site on your own phone and confirm it loads, fits the screen without sideways scrolling, and does not push your contact button out of view. Third-party embeds are also the most common cause of a slow page, so if it noticeably delays loading, consider a plain link instead.
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Test it end to end before you rely on it
Run through the whole flow yourself as a customer would — confirm it renders and links correctly — and confirm what should happen actually happens. Broken embeds fail silently, and the first person to notice is usually a customer who has already given up.
Tips & best practices
- ▸Your own domain should hold your best work. Images on your site can rank in Google Images and bring you clients; images on Behance rank for Behance.
- ▸Embeds tie your portfolio's availability to a third party. If Behance changes, your portfolio page breaks.
- ▸Behance is useful for discovery within its own community. That is a reason to be on it, not a reason to host your portfolio there.
- ▸Re-test the embed after any change to your site, your plan, or the connected account — third-party widgets break quietly and nothing tells you.
Common questions
Should my portfolio live on Behance or my own website?
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Your own website, with Behance as a secondary channel. Work on your own domain can rank in Google and Google Images, builds your site's authority, and cannot be changed or removed by a platform. Behance is good for discovery inside its community, but it is renting rather than owning.
How do I show Behance work on my website?
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Embed individual projects using Behance's embed option, or link to your profile from a button. For a portfolio you actually want found in search, upload the images to your own site directly and write a short case study around each one.
Do I need a developer to add Behance to my site?
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No. Every option here is copy and paste into a code or embed block, which every mainstream website builder provides. The only genuine blocker is a builder or plan that does not allow custom code at all — Squarespace, for instance, requires a Business plan or above for code blocks.
Will adding Behance slow down my website?
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Any third-party embed has some cost, because it loads code from another company's servers. One is usually unnoticeable; four or five on the same page is where small business sites become visibly slow. If page speed matters to you, prefer a plain link over a script wherever the option exists, and keep embeds to the pages that genuinely need them.