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Better Share Links shortcode plugin:
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<li>The better way of sharing important links is to share them with their screenshot.</li>
<li>The plugin makes sharing links(URLs) more user friendly.</li>
<li>The plugin require API key from page2images.com(Read step 7 of the installation instructions )</li>
<li>The free account gives the user 3000 calls per month.</li>
<li>The free account works only on http URL addresses.</li>
<li>The author of this plugin is not associated in any way with the API provider.</li>
<li>The shortcode will output a standard clickable link, until a screenshot is generated.</li>
<li>Text button “Share link” within TinyMCE editor that outputs [better_share_link url=”|||||” ]</li>
<li>More options coming to this plugin, as an admin page, in which the webmaster can include a custom CSS, enabling and disabling features, etc.</li>
</ul>
The current template of the shortcode is –
<ul>
<li>A title within H3 tag(the title is obtained via “PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser”).</li>
<li>A subtitle within H6 tag containing the URL address itself</li>
<li>The image of the screenshot</li>
<li>All of the three parts are links.</li>
</ul>
The SEO optimized output of the shortcode contains – 
<li>Alt tag, title tag of the image are equal to the title of the shared URL.</li>
<li>The filename of the image is the sanitized title of the URL, i.e. the whitespaces are replaced with dashes(-).</li>
<li>The height and the width of image are set within the ‘img’ tag.</li>
<li>All the outputted links are nofollow.</li>

Better Share Links shortcode

A complete template for sharing links using a generated screenshot

mraliende

The Plugin adds an link preview box to your post. 
The link preview box will be displayed like in Facebook! 🙂
This plugin can be used for free for maximal 10 URL Preview Boxes.
Perhaps you are familiar with Facebook. 
When you write a post in Facebook and you paste an URL into your text, 
Facebook detects that URL and adds automatically information about that URL under your post.
This plugin does it not automatically, you have to use the extra button in the visual editor (“URL BOX”). 
Or you just write [urlpreviewbox url=”\https://….”] into your text. 
This plugin loads information about that URL from https://guteurls.de/ server.
<ol>
<li>Title of that page</li>
<li>Description of that page</li>
<li>An URL of an image</li>
</ol>
And the plugin displays it below your post.
Facebook supports only one preview box per post. 
This plugin supports many preview boxes within one post, if you want.
Do you want to see it live on production servers?
Look here (copy and paste the URLs into your browser):
Example web pages, who use it:
https://alien.de/news/
https://www.ufo-und-alienforum.de/index.php/Thread/30805-Verlassene-Orte-in-Baden-Württemberg/
https://hypnose54321.de/frankfurt/_news.php
:
HOW TO USE IT VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wIzQbPg84 
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4_wIzQbPg84?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>Internationalization (i18n)</h3>
Currently we have the plugin configured so it can be easily translated and the following languages supported:
<ul>
<li>de_DE – German in Germany</li>
<li>en_US – English in the U.S.</li>
<li>zh_CN – China</li>
<li>es_ES – Spanish in Spain</li>
<li>ru_RU – Russian in the Russian Federation</li>
</ul>
If your language is not listed above, feel free to create a translation. Here are the basic steps:
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<li>Copy “gurlpb-en.pot” to “gurlpb-LANG_COUNTRY.pot” – fill in LANG and COUNTRY with whatever you use for WPLANG in wp-config.php</li>
<li>Grab a transalation editor. <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">POedit</a> works for us</li>
<li>Translate each line</li>
</ol>

URL-Preview-Box

That was really needed, because the automatic URL detection failed sometimes at very different designed WordPress templates.
This is the WordPress plugin, what I exactly needed. 
I use it now and will use it in the next years for sure.

Now it is possible to add manually preview boxes

This plugin adds link preview box to your post. You just copied & pasted an URL into your posting. :-)

Better Share Links shortcode vs URL-Preview-Box