Title: Visual Link Preview
Author: Brecht
Published: 2017(e)ko maiatzaren 15(a)
Last modified: 2026(e)ko apirilaren 11(a)
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Bilatu pluginak
# Visual Link Preview
[Brecht](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brechtvds/)-(r)en eskutik
[Deskargatu](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/visual-link-preview.2.3.1.zip)
* [Xehetasunak](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/#description)
* [Berrikuspenak](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/#reviews)
* [Instalazioa](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/#installation)
* [Garapena](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/#developers)
[Laguntza](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/)
## Deskripzioa
Easily create a Facebook-like link preview for any link on your website. You can
choose the image and text to display and create your very own custom template. The
default template can be styled from the settings to match your website.
Some examples of what you could use this for:
* A call to action for your affiliate links
* Promote WooCommerce products on your website
* List sources for your article
* A weekly posty of interesting websites you’ve found
* Link to related posts on your own website
* …
It does not require any database lookups, which means even having many of these
blocks on a page should not affect performance.
Compatible with both the Classic and Gutenberg Block Editor using shortcodes and
blocks. Also includes full Elementor support with a dedicated widget for easy integration
into your Elementor pages.
The plugin includes multiple URL metadata providers (PHP, Microlink API, and LinkPreview
API) with automatic fallback switching. If one provider fails to fetch link information,
the plugin automatically tries the next available provider. You can also manually
retry with a different provider if needed.
> **Need help?**
> Check out [our documentation](https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/collection/164-visual-link-preview)!
This plugin is in active development. Feel free to contact us with any feature requests
or ideas.
## Pantaila-argazkiak
* [[
* Add a visual link with live preview to any post or page
* [[
* Example of what the default template looks like in a post
* [[
* Use our settings to easily style the link to match your website
* [[
* Link to your own posts or to any external URL
## Blokeak
Plugin honek 1 blokea hornitzen du.
* Visual Link Preview
## Instalazioa
1. Upload the `visual-link-preview` directory (directory included) to the `/wp-content/
plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Check out our [getting started documentation](https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/category/167-getting-started)
## MEG
### Where can I find the documentation?
All documentation can be found in [our knowledge base](https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/collection/164-visual-link-preview).
### Do you offer any support?
Yes! We pride ourselves on offering awesome support and almost always answer support
questions within 24 hours. Send us an email at [support@bootstrapped.ventures](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/support@bootstrapped.ventures?output_format=md)
whenever you have a question or suggestion!
### Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
Please report security bugs found in the source code of the plugin through the [Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/140f9fd1-2409-4108-864e-d14e535718f4).
The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify
the developers of this plugin.
## Berrikuspenak
### [Great plugin – exactly what I needed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-exactly-what-i-needed-21/)
[redpandazine](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redpandazine/) 2025(e)ko abuztuaren
25(a)
As someone who curates content regularly, this plugin is really what I’ve been searching
for. Thank you for it!
### [Terrible product design](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-product-design/)
[michaelzfreeman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/michaelzfreeman/) 2025(e)ko uztailaren
7(a) 1 reply
Functionally this is good but no where are we told that the plugin uses Microlink
API which has a limit of 50 requests per day. They don’t inform the user of this.
Neither do they put up a message telling the user the limit has been reached !
### [This plugin is amazing!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-is-amazing-59/)
[Dan Greene](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dgreene423/) 2025(e)ko maiatzaren 28(
a) 1 reply
I had been using a different plugin’s pro version (Inline Related Posts). But the
site I was using it on is very large, 38 thousand posts and counting, and that plugin’s
performance was becoming extremely erratic. All really needed was a plugin that
would let me search for the post link I wanted to add, pull its title, image, and
excerpt into a block, and add some custom styling. Visual Link Preview does exactly
that! Thank you for making this plugin
### [Must have to show a press review !](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-to-show-a-press-review/)
[clinicien](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clinicien/) 2024(e)ko irailaren 11(a)
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](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-but-lacking-2/)
[audunmb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audunmb/) 2024(e)ko urtarrilaren 26(a)
1 reply
The idea is great, but there are several shortcomings.
* 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.
Edit: this is fixed :)
* 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.
Edit:
As for custom blocks, I mostly want to add a “Read
more about this” to the top of template.
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.
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.
### [Impressive plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impressive-plugin-43/)
[Jimmy Lee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shirtguy72/) 2023(e)ko abenduaren 29(
a)
Super nice plugin, thank you! 5-Stars!
[ Irakurri 36 berrikuspenak ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/)
## Laguntzaileak eta Garatzaileak
“Visual Link Preview” software librea da. Ondoko pertsonek egin dizkiote ekarpenak
plugin honi.
Laguntzaileak
* [ Brecht ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brechtvds/)
Visual Link Preview 4 eskualde-ezarpenetara itzuli da. Eskerrik asko [itzultzaileei](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/visual-link-preview/contributors)
beraien ekarpenengatik.
[Itzul zaitez Visual Link Preview zure hizkuntzara.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/visual-link-preview)
### Garapena interesatzen zaizu?
[Araka kodea](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visual-link-preview/),
begiratu [SVN biltegia](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/visual-link-preview/)
edo harpidetu [garapen erregistrora](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/visual-link-preview/)
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/visual-link-preview/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss)
bidez.
## Aldaketen loga
#### 2.3.1
* Fix: Harden external URL metadata and image fetch endpoints against authenticated
SSRF attempts by blocking localhost, private/reserved IP ranges, and unsafe ports
#### 2.3.0
* Feature: Elementor Widget for visual links
* Feature: Use PHP to retrieve URL metadata
* Feature: Use LinkPreview API to retrieve URL metadata
* Feature: Automatic fallback to different provider
* Feature: Manually retry using a different provider
* Fix: Only show posts in search and summary that the current user is allowed to
read
#### 2.2.9
* Improvement: Choose how visual links should render inside RSS feeds
#### 2.2.8
* Fix: Prevent potential misuse of shortcode by authors
* Fix: Only output link in RSS feed
#### 2.2.7
* Improvement: WordPress 6.8 compatibility
* Fix: Loading translations too early
#### 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
## Meta
* Version **2.3.1**
* Azken eguneraketa **duela 3 egun**
* Instalazio aktiboak **10.000+**
* WordPress bertsioa ** 4.4 edo handiagoa **
* **6.9.4** (e)raino probatuta.
* Hizkuntzak
* [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/),
[English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/),
eta [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/).
* [Itzuli zure hizkuntzara](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/visual-link-preview)
* Etiketak
* [link preview](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/link-preview/)[snippet](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/snippet/)
[summary](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/summary/)
* [Ikuspegi aurreratua](https://eu.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/advanced/)
## Balorazioak
4.5 out of 5 stars.
* [ 30 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/?filter=4)
* [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/?filter=3)
* [ 2 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/?filter=2)
* [ 2 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/?filter=1)
[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/reviews/#new-post)
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## Laguntzaileak
* [ Brecht ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brechtvds/)
## Laguntza
Azken bi hilabeteetan konpondutako gertakariak:
1(e)tik 1
[Ikusi laguntza foroa](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visual-link-preview/)
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