Description
This plugin will add a button to your post/page editor which can be used to generate and embed a link preview for a given URL. The link preview consists of a title, description and image which will result in a similar look as sharing a link on Facebook.
The link preview can also be generated with shortcode: [wplinkpreview url=””]
Screenshots
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Installation
- Uncompress the download package
- Upload the folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Uncompress the download package
- Upload the folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Reviews
☀️ 6️⃣ 17, 2018
Not work with cyrillic symbols
❄️2️⃣ 24, 2018
This was exactly what I was looking for to post links to a blog by email, using the WP Link Preview shortcode.
There are a few little issues, like ” showing up as ?, but these are not a problem for me.
Thanks!
☀️ 8️⃣ 6, 2018
This plugin works fine for me. I had to edit my .conf file on my DigitalOcean droplet since I am using Content Security Policies, so the images would show up.
Here is the post that I tried with the plugin. https://appsbytravis.com/adobe-spark-first-creation/.
If I am not allowed to post links, let me know, as this is my first review for a plugin, so yea. 🙂
☀️ 6️⃣ 23, 2017
The plugin works fine almost 100% and I’m happy about it, because I’ve been searching for something like this for a long time.
Sometimes it does not import images from the link, but probably it depends from the sites I link.
Good job 🙂
Contributors & Developers
“WP Link Preview” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.4.1
- Remove ‘user-agent’ from HTTP request to fetch preview
1.4
- Fix character encoding issues
- Use ‘og:url’ when possible to display the source URL
- Validate favicon url to ensure its a valid absolute URL
1.3
- Ability to generate link preview using shortcode (ex. [wplinkpreview url=”wordpress.org”])
1.2
- Batch input of URLs to generate links previews for
- Show loading message while link preview is being fetched
1.1
- Remove output of extra HTML when any or all meta data does not exist