# Embedded Posts: Link Preview only in Post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** embedding
**Created:** [September 17, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314 "2023-09-17T22:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Aaron\_B](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_B)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314/1 "2023-09-17T22:10:57Z")
Feature request: **Link preview only in body of embedded posts**
I have a specific use scenario I can’t seem to solve in Discourse while I’m evaluation the platform. It seems like several other people are trying to accomplish the same thing as me.
I have the embedding feature working well and new “case” pages for my site create a forum post and add replies to my original site. The problems is the content of the forum post that is embedded. My original source site is React and I can’t seem to control what content to display through RSS.
What works perfectly is, if I post a url to the original source page, Discourse creates a beautiful preview of the page and links to it. How can I use that link preview as the content of my post?
It would be amazing if there was an Embed option to only post the link preview. I don’t need the actual content from the page included in my forum post. I just want conversational replies and users to get back to the source page if they need the content.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314/2 "2023-09-17T22:41:10Z")
> [@Aaron\_B](#):
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> What works perfectly is, if I post a url to the original source page, Discourse creates a beautiful preview of the page and links to it. How can I use that link preview as the content of my post?
This won’t solve your problem, but this is something that a few sites that publish WordPress posts to Discourse with the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin wanted to accomplish. For that case, the WordPress plugin was able to provide a [workaround](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-structure-of-wp-discourse-templates/50754#examples-6).
To allow this to work with posts created with the Javascript embed code would require a new feature to be added to the core Discourse code. It might be a very useful feature for sites that struggle to get their external posts accurately displayed in Discourse topics.
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### Author:  [@Aaron\_B](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_B)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314/3 "2023-09-17T22:49:40Z")
Possibly a plugin as well? I think support for this as a core feature would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-posts-link-preview-only-in-post/279314/4 "2023-09-17T22:54:46Z")
It’s not my job anymore, but having helped sites configure this in the past, having a fallback to display a onebox link when an accurate representation of the post can’t be returned would sure have been appreciated. I think it’s a good feature request for the core Discourse code.
It could be accomplished with a plugin now if your site’s self-hosted.