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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>
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The current template of the shortcode is –
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<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>
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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

Mark Jaquith

Isn’t it annoying when you craft a post title, and then the URL slug kind of falls short? Like, if your title is Breaking: Yankees win 3-2 in extra innings. I’m excited & literally can’t even and your post slug turns out like breaking-yankees-win-3-2-in-extra-innings-im-excited-literally-cant-even. “3-2” is ambiguous because all the words are already separated by dashes. “im” is not a word. “cant” means something else. The ampersand meaning “and” just got dropped. The leading “breaking-” will be silly when the date part of the URL is 3 years old. The whole URL is off. Doesn’t this make more sense? yankees-win-3-to-2-in-extra-innings-i-am-excited-and-literally-cannot-even. Sure it’s really long (and a future version of the plugin will help with that!), but it reads much better.
<h3>Contribute</h3>
Contribute to this plugin on GitHub:
https://github.com/markjaquith/slug-control/issues

Slug Control

Helps you craft amazing post URL slugs, for that hand-crafted URL feel.

Better Share Links shortcode vs Slug Control