John Havlik

WP Lynx allows you to create stylized links akin to those in Facebook. These stylized links, known as lynx prints, can contain a thumbnail image of any of the images on the linked page, plus a short excerpt from the page. The images are automatically cached on your server (no hot-linking), and the content is intelligently scraped.
Note: version 1.0.0 of this plugin requires PHP5.3 or newer.
<h4>Translations</h4>
WP Lynx now supports WordPress.org language packs. Want to translate WP Lynx? Visit <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-lynx/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Lynx’s WordPress.org translation project</a>.

WP Lynx

WP Lynx allows you to mimic Facebook's wall links in your WordPress posts.

Arunas Liuiza

Stanislav Khromov

Content Cards make ordinary web links great by making it possible to embed a beautiful Content Card to link to any web site.
By using OpenGraph data, Content Cards grabs the title, description and associated image to the links you embed – it’s similar to how you can embed other websites, such as YouTube, Twitter, SoundCloud and more.
For individual links, You can insert a Content Card via shortcode <code>[contentcards url="http://yoursite.com/article-1"]</code>. If you often use Content Cards for some website, you can register the domain name (for example: <code>yoursite.com</code>) as an oEmbed provider via Plugin’s Settings page and then it will behave the same way other oEmbed providers do – you will just have to paste plaintext link to a separate paragraph an Content Card will be generated automatically.
This plugin was built by <a href="http://arunas.co" rel="nofollow ugc">Arūnas Liuiza</a> and <a href="http://snippets.khromov.se/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stanislav Khromov</a>. It is being developed on <a href="http://github.com/ideag/content-cards" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. If you have any questions, issues, need support, or want to contribute, please let us know <a href="http://github.com/ideag/content-cards/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
We are machines that convert coffee into code, so feel free to <a href="http://arunas.co#coffee" rel="nofollow ugc">buy us a cup</a>. Or two. Or ten.
Also, please check out our other plugins:
<ul>
<li>Arūnas: <a href="http://arunas.co/gust" rel="nofollow ugc">Gust</a>, <a href="http://arunas.co/tinycoffee" rel="nofollow ugc">tinyCoffee</a>, <a href="http://arunas.co/tinysocial" rel="nofollow ugc">tinySocial</a>, <a href="http://arunas.co/tinytoc" rel="nofollow ugc">tinyTOC</a>, <a href="http://arunas.co/tinyip" rel="nofollow ugc">tinyIP</a> (premium) and <a href="http://arunas.co/gust" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Section Voting</a></li>
<li>Stanislav: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/instant-articles" rel="ugc">WordPress Instant Articles</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/view-template-widget-for-toolset-types-views/" rel="ugc">Content Template Widget for Toolset Views</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-obfuscate-shortcode/" rel="ugc">Email Obfuscate Shortcode</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/english-wp-admin/" rel="ugc">English WordPress Admin</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/distraction-free-writing-mode-themes/" rel="ugc">Distraction Free Writing mode Themes</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-upscale/" rel="ugc">Thumbnail Upscale</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-users-media/" rel="ugc">WP Users Media</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/" rel="ugc">Views Output Formats</a></li>
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Content Cards

Worked great

I checked my media library, no issue with cached images as previously reported

Works great

Embed any link from the web easily as a beautiful Content Card.

WP Lynx vs Content Cards