Z-URL Preview WordPress Plugin
A plugin to embed a preview of a link, similar to facebook
This plugin fetches an excerpt of an external website link. The excerpt contains the title, description and image.
v1.5.0 Update: Rewrote the source parser to use PHP's HTML Dom instead of regex's. The default mode is the original regex's, so you need to change the setting on the options page to enable this. The Dom mode always tries OpenGraph tags first, then fails back to regular meta tags, then to body content, i.e. img if no og:image, h1 if no og:title or title, 1st p if no og:description or meta description
The options page allows the following to be set:
CSS to change the look and feel of the generated links.
The article source label. (Default "Source:")
Control of new window opening. Options are 'target="_blank"', 'target="newwindow"', 'rel="external"' and opening in the same window. (Default 'target="_blank"')
excerpt Facebook type preview link preview linkedin type preview Post
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Usage of Z-URL Preview over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 25 to 24 — down 1 (-4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 24 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 24 | -1 |
| May 2024 | 25 | +2 |
| April 2024 | 23 | +1 |
| March 2024 | 22 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 23 | -2 |
| January 2024 | 25 | +3 |
| December 2023 | 22 | +2 |
| November 2023 | 20 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 19 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 19 | -3 |
| August 2023 | 22 | -3 |
| July 2023 | 25 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 25 | — |
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