Posting links without Auto Embeding them – Twitter

  • How can I paste a list of links into this new editor without having it try to auto-embed all of them? I just want a list of clickable links to my social sites. I don’t want it to display Tweets or anything like that.

    Some of them I can click ‘Display as Link,’ but I can’t for Twitter Blocks and when it tries to embed Facebook. And I can’t change the block type of Twitter blocks like I can for every other kind of block.

    I’ve tried pasting the list of links in a Paragraph or Preformatted block but the editor changes them all to embeds. Do I really have to type out each link each time I do a post? Or is there a simple setting I can switch to knock it off.

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  • Hello!

    You can add a Custom HTML block and hyperlink the URLs.

    So, instead of simply pasting it (e.g. https://twitter.com/username), hyperlink it like this:

    <a href="https://twitter.com/username" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Your Twitter Account</a>

    This will make it appear as a simple link on the front-end.

    If you don’t want the link to open in a new tab, remove both target=... and rel=....

    You can also disable embeds completely using a plugin.

    I hope this helps!

    You can as well install the Classic Editor. ?? Don’t forget to enable Switching editors option in Settings -> Writing.

    Thread Starter ToasterBoy

    (@toasterboy)

    Thank you both for your help!

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