Seeking a plugin that summarizes a link you post – like Twitter and Facebook do

There’s this but you need to create the summary yourself.

What it does add to the post is pretty cool.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-better-summary-in-wordpress-posts/

Hi JNashHawkins – that does look cool, and no problem writing the summary myself, but what I really need it to bring the image and title into the post and then I can write a little blub as the summary or commentary. Here is an example from my Twitter feel chosen almost at random: twitter.com/PsychToday/status/1163590717735915520?s=20

See what that does? It brings in the title, subtitle and image, into the post which is just a little blurb. Not clear from the description that yours does that, though it does look like a cool plugin to use for other reasons. There must be something that does this though.

So what you are looking to do is post a link to a post or page from your site onto a social media site like Twitter, and you want an image and summary from your post to show up. That’s handled through a special metadata tags called Open Graph. While most social media sites uses Open Graph, Twitter has its own metadata tags called Twitter Cards (see here for the difference). For example, on that Psychology Today article that you used as an example on Twitter, if you go to the actual article and do a view source, you’ll see these Open Graph tags and Twitter cards:

<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@PsychToday" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Don't Ever Talk to Me Again" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Why having people cut out of your life can be detrimental to your health." />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Don't Ever Talk to Me Again" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@PsychToday" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/field_blog_entry_images/2019-08/breakup.png" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="220580041311284" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:app_id" content="220580041311284" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-article_inline_full/public/field_blog_entry_teaser_image/2019-08/breakup.png?itok=HjLzCXJ7" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Why having people cut out of your life can be detrimental to your health." />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201908/dont-ever-talk-me-again" />

So, for example, the Twitter card twitter:image tells Twitter what image to use on your tweet.

So now you know what to look for, you can search the WordPress plugin repository for either >Open Graph or Twitter cards. In most cases, if you set the featured image on your post, that’s what will be used as the image on your social media post.

@crouchingbruin I think the OP wants the opposite of that: a plugin to summarize external site page in the post being written.

Thank you @crouchingbruin but @joyously is correct – I am looking for the opposite of that. I want to be able to make a post on my wordpress blog with a link, and have it include the title of the link and an extracted image from that link below the post – just like almost every social network does. Surely that must exist but I have even asked a WordPress consultant and he didn’t know. I hope I am communicating this correctly because it seems really basic. If anyone knows where to look I would really appreciate it.

Darn – no one here knows? is there any other place I could post this where someone might know? This is so obvious that if it does not exist there must be some technical reason why, however I have used thumbnail generation programs that seemed to do something similar. I am at a total dead end so if anyone knows a place where i can at least continue searching I would appreciate it. i really need this.

@robmarkg, I am looking for the same thing you are. Can’t believe it’s not widespread out there. Hootsuite used to do a trick to post a Link to your blog (and socia media accounts), extracting title, image and first paragraph.

Desperately looking for that functionality as well.

any luck @arnaudfischer ? – I still haven’t found one.there must be some technical reason why it isn’t more widespread.