Visual Link Preview

Visual Link Preview

Display a fully customizable visual link preview for any internal or external link.
Rating:
4.6
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Active Installations:
10000+
Last Updated:
Nov 05, 2024
WordPress Version:
4.4 or higher
Tested up to:
6.7.2

Easy Link Previews

Create Facebook-like previews for any link on your website effortlessly.

Customizable Templates

Choose the image and text to display and create your own unique link preview template.

Boost Engagement

Use link previews to drive action, promote products, list sources, or share interesting websites.

2.2.6

  • Fix: Deprecation warning

2.2.5

  • Improvement: Use default translation for “Read More” in spotlight template
  • Fix: Gutenberg deprecations

2.2.4

  • Fix: Internal link select in WordPress 5.9

2.2.3

  • Fix: Prevent users without the right capabities from being able to use our AJAX actions

2.2.2

  • Fix: Block not rendering in WordPress 5.8
  • Fix: Template issues when using different templates on the same page

2.2.1

  • Fix: Breaking class call when using custom styling
  • Fix: Prevent PHP notices because of non-static functions

2.2.0

  • Feature: New “Compact” link template
  • Feature: New “Spotlight” link template
  • Feature: Template Editor for link templates
  • Feature: URL block in the Template Editor to show domain or full url
  • Feature: Optionally set your own Microlink API key
  • Improvement: Remove jQuery dependency
  • Improvement: Better compatibility with TwentyTwenty theme
  • Fix: Sanitization for summary field
  • Fix: Stuck in loading if fetching of external link data not working

2.1.1

  • Fix: Prevent PHP notices for incomplete shortcodes

2.1.0

  • Feature: Set nofollow and open in new tab for VLP Block
  • Feature: Set custom link class for VLP Block
  • Feature: Ability to use shortcode directly for advanced purposes
  • Improvement: Keep image size consistent
  • Improvement: Layout on mobile
  • Fix: Browser freezing when trying to load information from some URLs

2.0.2

  • Improvement: Convert paragraph and shortcode block
  • Fix: Image not removing correctly in Classic Editor

2.0.1

  • Fix: Some blocks not showing preview in Gutenberg
  • Fix: Default image size in template causing PHP notices

2.0.0

  • Feature: Easily change template style from settings
  • Feature: Automatic content in Gutenberg block
  • Feature: Automatic summary for internal links
  • Improvement: Better Gutenberg block with preview

1.3.3

  • Fix: Bug introduced in 1.3.2 when creating in Gutenberg

1.3.2

  • Fix: Summary not getting saved correctly upon edit
  • Fix: HTML code showing in summary

1.3.1

  • Improvement: Convert shortcode to Gutenberg block
  • Fix: WordPress 5.0 compatibility

1.3.0

  • Feature: Fetch information from external link using Open Graph

1.2.2

  • Improvement: Gutenberg 3.3 compatibility

1.2.1

  • Improvement: Gutenberg 2.6.0 compatibility for the VLP block

1.2.0

  • Feature: New block for Gutenberg compatibility
  • Feature: Use nofollow and open in new tab for external links
  • Improvement: Better handling of encoding

1.1.2

  • Fix: Prevent overwriting first link in post when editing a newly added link

1.1.1

  • Fix: Problem with encoding unicode characters

1.1.0

  • Feature: Template system

1.0.0

  • Very first version of this link preview plugin

Must have to show a press review !

By clinicien on September 11, 2024

I've looked for this kind of plugin for a while and this one does perfectly what it has been designed for.
Thank you very much !

Nice, but lacking

By audunmb on January 26, 2024

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">The idea is great, but there are several shortcomings.<br>* Lacks basic localisation stuff like using translate files for “read more”-buttons (they’re in the standard wordpress translations, just add ‘wordpress’ after the string). Having to build a new template simply to translate a button is annoying. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">Edit: this is fixed :)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">* It’s not possible to add new blocks in templates. This limits severely the types of templates one can create, and the usefulness of this plugin.<br><br>Edit:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">As for custom blocks, I mostly want to add a "Read more about this" to the top of template.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">Though, I wished that template building was similar to normal block editing. So instead of custom settings, I could use the default block editor to set typography, colors, margins, padding, border etc.<br>That of course means to rewrite much of the plugin, but it would probably be better in the long run. First it would be consistent with the rest of Wordpress. It would also fix any responsivity issues (as the theme would handle that) and make it easier to create nice designs (using cover block for instance would be nice) for the users.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

Impressive plugin!

By shirtguy72 on December 29, 2023

Super nice plugin, thank you! 5-Stars!

This plugin is fantastic!

By ste_yeu on December 6, 2023

I was searching for a solution that could auto get images and content from external websites, and this plugin works great for this!

Congralutations to the developer!

Limitations

By xolde on November 4, 2023

Doesn't work with Elementor

Tam Aradığım Eklenti

By kaptaninyeri on September 23, 2023

Eklentiyi Oluşturana Teşekkürler :)

Good

By Tae Hyeon (laetitiatistory) on September 2, 2023

It really works and you can customize it easily
This plugin deserve more attention

Perfect!

By ebonweaver on July 29, 2023

I'm really hard to please. Most plugins with good ratings I find to be worthless junk. Even decent ones have big issues most of the time or wind up being half measures. But this? This is fantastic. I have not found a single issue so far. It does exactly what you want pretty automagically. You can easily tweak the result. So easily in fact I was looking for something harder than just click the text in the sidebar. And the settings to make a custom style template? Amazingly robust. Ok fine, ONE missing thing, I'd love an option to set vertical centering of the image in the sidebar, but geez that's minor. If it could do the same magic on PDF files it would be godlike.

Great Plugin!

By miksully on March 20, 2023

Great Plugin! Just what I was looking for!

Good Link Preview Plugin

By molemaklaas on January 28, 2023

Well written, allows for template editing, multiple styling options.

I haven't tested it with other wordpress builders so I don't know how that works together but I'm happy.

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