# Why are some WordPress links Oneboxed, and others are not?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Maio 13, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-some-wordpress-links-oneboxed-and-others-are-not/28778 "2015-05-13T17:16:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [Maio 13, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-some-wordpress-links-oneboxed-and-others-are-not/28778/10 "2015-05-13T23:59:54Z")

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It depends on how the URLs are constructed. We have to guess based on the URL format, otherwise we would be forced to make http requests to every website to determine “is this Wordpress or not?”

Anyway, the excerpt is a setting in the plugin, that copies the first (n) chars out of the post and directly places that text in the corresponding topic.

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