zeitwesentech

It probably works as expected – as stated in the description of the plugin: “It works by fetching the link URL and examining either the facebook Open Graph properties or Twitter card tags including any preview image.”

So I guess the page you want to preview just does not offer any these tags.

thank you for the feedback ??

finally found some time to investigate on the problem and found a fix. seems that newer php versions now handle calls some calls as an error instead of a warning what they used to before.

please use latest version 1.5.0 – the problem should be fixed. please report back if not

hi jeremy,
we added the possibilty to define your own rel attribute in the latest update

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hi kevin,

hiding the host-url is currently not supported. of course you can always play around with custsom css to globally hide host-urls.
e.g. Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS and add

.zwt-wp-lnk-prev .zwt-wp-lnk-prev-url-host{
display:none;
}

hi!

As stated in my Introduction of the plugin you can always customize styling via CSS. Go to
WP Dashboard – Appearance – Customize – Additional CSS – and add the following lines:

.zwt-wp-lnk-prev.compact .zwt-wp-lnk-prev-img-container {
flex: 10%;
}

depending on your theme you probably need to play around with some CSS-stylings. basically you can always override the styling via CSS – my plugin element’s css is scoped with the CSS class name “zwt-wp-lnk-prev.full” or “zwt-wp-lnk-prev.compact”

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hi eazyhols!

I checked your site: it seems that there is a weird plugin active that adds various code elements to the site with custom styling.
a quick fix might be:
WP Dashboard – Appearance – Customize – Additional CSS – add the following lines:

code{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
}

please be aware that this might change the styling of other areas of your site

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Hi John,

Glad you like my plugin. Well I had a look at your link and it works as intended: If available I use the social meta tags provided by the site – in your case the
<meta property=”og:title” content=”How to start….”>
<meta property=”og:description” content=”This easy …”>
<meta property=”og:image” content=”https://www.theblogst&#8230;.”>
as further explained here: https://pasteboard.co/JNKL2OI.png

Everything is just rendered as it was defined by the site author. Just in case the title and/or description are too long you can manually limit them while rendering on the site.

Regarding the image:
– for the compact layout it is always square having 300px
– for the full layout it is always 1024px in width and a calculated height so that it meets the recommended ratio of 1.91:1 (see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#images for deeper information)

Best, Johannes

https://pasteboard.co/JNKL2OI.png

just checked again and your provided link _is_ displayed with an image.
maybe you can try to refresh the link preview.
https://www.wired.it/scienza/energia/2020/09/30/sparc-fusione-nucleare/

I know that they all provide images because if you share them on social networks they do.

If a display is not displayed, check if website source (e.g. Chrome -> Rightclick -> View page source) contains either
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://some.url"/>
or
<meta name="og:image" content="https://some.url"/>

I strictly check if a site contains any image-tag. if it does not I do not display an image.

hi,

Well I tried with this link and it works to show the image.

[beautiful_link_preview url="https://www.darioantonacci.it/blog/index.php/2020/07/20/oggi-decreto-conclusa-una-fase-della-mia-vita-quella-in-cui-avevo-ancora-un-genitore/"]

Please provide an example that surely does not work.

@sami-sanpakkila I just released a new version of the plugin with a fix to handle umlauts. I tested it with your website https://desibeli.net/juttu/3334 and it works. Maybe you can catch up with the creators of this website to properly offer social tags (“twitter card tags” and/or “facebook open graph tags”) so you can also have a preview image.

thanks @sami-sanpakkila I can reproduce the issue. will have a look at it soon