Visual Link Preview
Display a fully customizable visual link preview for any internal or external link.
4.5(36 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Visual Link Preview is a WordPress snippet plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 36 reviews. It has been downloaded 159K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 30% this week. Top alternative: Header Footer Code Manager.
4.5/536 reviews
10K+active installs
159K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Easily create a Facebook-like link preview for any link on your website. You can choose the image and text to display and create your very own custom template. The default template can be styled from the settings to match your website.
Some examples of what you could use this for:
- A call to action for your affiliate links
- Promote WooCommerce products on your website
- List sources for your article
- A weekly posty of interesting websites you’ve found
- Link to related posts on your own website
- …
It does not require any database lookups, which means even having many of these blocks on a page should not affect performance.
Compatible with both the Classic and Gutenberg Block Editor using shortcodes and blocks.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin – exactly what I needed
by redpandazine·7 months ago
As someone who curates content regularly, this plugin is really what I’ve been searching for. Thank you for it!
Terrible product design
by michaelzfreeman·9 months ago·1 reply
Functionally this is good but no where are we told that the plugin uses Microlink API which has a limit of 50 requests per day. They don’t inform the user of this. Neither do they put up a message telling the user the limit has been reached !
This plugin is amazing!
by Dan Greene·10 months ago·1 reply
I had been using a different plugin’s pro version (Inline Related Posts). But the site I was using it on is very large, 38 thousand posts and counting, and that plugin’s performance was becoming extremely erratic.
All really needed was a plugin that would let me search for the post link I wanted to add, pull its title, image, and excerpt into a block, and add some custom styling. Visual Link Preview does exactly that! Thank you for making this plugin
Must have to show a press review !
by clinicien·1 year ago
I’ve looked for this kind of plugin for a while and this one does perfectly what it has been designed for.
Thank you very much !
Impressive plugin!
by Jimmy Lee·2 years ago
Super nice plugin, thank you! 5-Stars!
Download Trends
Today: 60Yesterday: 62This week: 432Period total: 43K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
54.3%
v2.2
43.6%
Other
2.1%
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Changelog
2.3.0
- Feature: Elementor Widget for visual links
- Feature: Use PHP to retrieve URL metadata
- Feature: Use LinkPreview API to retrieve URL metadata
- Feature: Automatic fallback to different provider
- Feature: Manually retry using a different provider
…and 1 more changes
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