WP Link Preview Plugin

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=””]

1. Uncompress the download package
2. Upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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Installation Instructions

1. Uncompress the download package
2. Upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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