Plugin info

Total downloads: 4,354
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 8/27/2025 (126 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/8/2020 (5 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 8.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Maintained • Last updated 126 days ago • 1 reviews

52/100

Is Mini Live Preview URL abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 126 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.6
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 8.0

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Description

Mini Live Preview URL is a simple WordPress plugin for adding live previews of links on mouse hover. Plugin Targets Any Anchor (a) tag inside body content.

Selected CSS Classes are:
– ‘body #content’
– ‘body .content’
– ‘body .site-content’
– ‘body #site-content’

If your theme is using any other class/id for main content rendering let us know, we will add it to our list.

Note : There are some site what doesn’t give permission to load inside of an iframe so those sites won’t load & There might be some iframe Cross Browser script loading blocking and it might generate console errors. but it won’t create any problem with the site though.

Features:

  • Add a Quick View Modal of Live Preview of any link like Wikipedia on your site within a Minute

Installation

To add a WordPress Plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

Go to Plugins > Add New.

  1. Type in the name “Mini Live Preview URL” in Search Plugins box
  2. Find the “Mini Live Preview URL” Plugin to install.
  3. Click Install Now to begin the plugin installation.
  4. The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
    If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.

To add a WordPress Plugin from GitHub repo / plugin zip file :
1. Go to WordPress plugin page
2. Click Add New & Upload Plugin
3. Drag / Click upload the plugin zip file
4. The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to use this plugin?

Just after installing the plugin, go to Settings > Mini Live Preview URL and check Enable URL Preview and voila! it will work automatically after that.

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Screenshots

  1. Live URL Preview

    Live URL Preview

Changelog

2.0.2

  • Fixed issue: typo giving fatal error

2.0.1

  • Checked for latest wp version 6.8

2.0.0

  • Major changes in codebase. Compatibility checkup for latest wp version 6.7

1.0.3

  • Compatibility check for wp 6.6

1.0.2

  • Compatibility check for wp 6.3

1.0.1

  • Compatibility check for wp 6.0

1.0.0

  • Initial release.