Screenshot Generator takes screenshots of posts and pages when they are updated. These screenshots can be used for e.g. previews in social media.
As of April 2026, Screenshot Generator is a WordPress social plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: AddToAny Share Buttons.
Screenshot Generator is a WordPress plugin that takes screenshots of posts for social media etc. when they are updated.
It uses PhantomJS to do this.
Why? When developing Toptrust, I was tired of manually adding images of posts
when sharing on social media. This was especially true for pages that had no featured/thumbnail images.
I wanted screenshots to be taken automatically, and so Screenshot Generator was born.
When you update a post or page, a screenshot is automatically taken in the background.
After a few seconds, the screenshot URL is saved to the post’s meta key _scrgen_screenshot.
An og:image and twitter:image:src is automatically added to the meta tags
when viewing the post. These are only added if the post doesn’t have a
thumbnail,…
| WordPress | 4.0.0+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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