# 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")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@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")

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> [@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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