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Varun Dubey

<p><strong>Activity Link Preview For BuddyPress</strong> automatically generates beautiful link previews when users share URLs in BuddyPress activity posts and comments. The plugin fetches Open Graph data (image, title, description) from shared links and displays them in an attractive card format.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic Link Detection</strong> – Detects URLs as users type in the activity form</li>
<li><strong>Rich Previews</strong> – Displays title, description, and featured image from shared links</li>
<li><strong>Comment Support</strong> – Link previews work in activity comments and replies</li>
<li><strong>Social Media Embeds</strong> – Special handling for Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube, and more</li>
<li><strong>Short URL Support</strong> – Resolves shortened URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Caching</strong> – Previews are cached for better performance</li>
<li><strong>REST API Support</strong> – Link preview data available via BuddyPress REST API</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong> – Filters to customize or disable functionality</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported Platforms</h4>
<ul>
<li>Twitter/X – Native tweet embeds</li>
<li>Facebook – Native post embeds</li>
<li>YouTube – Video embeds via oEmbed</li>
<li>LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit – Link previews</li>
<li>Any website with Open Graph meta tags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>BuddyPress 6.0+ or BuddyBoss Platform</li>
</ul>


Activity Link Preview For BuddyPress

Not a fan of all their plugins but this one does the job perfectly (now that the fixes I suggested have been implemented). Highly recommended.

Works as it says


Thank you for making this and putting it out for free. It isn't easy to find link preview features sometimes. 



Even if it has to be a pro/paid version, you might think about finding a way to have the link preview's image uploaded to wp-content uploads and then served from there. I'm sure that's not super easy to do, but in order for this to work consistently and work well on larger sites, the images need to get cached or hosted within the same WordPress installation.


Simple and effective

BuddyPress activity link preview displays image, title and description from websites when links are shared in activity posts.

Rajin Sharwar

<p>OnHover Link Preview plugin automatically adds link preview pop-ups so visitors can see the preview of the hyperlink without leaving your website, and just hovering over the link.</p>
<p>Whether users are reading your blog or webpage, they can get a preview of the linked content and get a peak of the preview of the webpage refered.</p>
<ul>
<li>Link auto-previews popups work on all types of hyperlinks, under the “entry-content” div class.</li>
<li>Excludes the header, footer, nav-menu links etc.</li>
<li>Excludes any Images with a link ( tag).</li>
<li>No code easy one-click installation.</li>
<li>Easily specify which Elements, Classes, or IDs of the website to exclude from showing auto-previews.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin uses “mShots” as a third party service to get the previews. mshots is a Website Thumbnail/Snapshot Service from Automattic licenced GPL-2.0. No data of your’s or your website, is being sent or shared with mShots. You can find it’s licence and policy details from the below URL:<br />
https://github.com/Automattic/mShots/blob/master/LICENSE</p>


OnHover Link Preview

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