I am not sure if this is a Wordpress question or a Discourse questions but hopefully someone here will be bale to help me out. On my Discourse site - If I post a link like this one: “ https://www.pollstar.com/article/paul-mccartney-ready-to-freshen-up-us-136222 ” It will show me this preview: [25%…

It’s my understanding this is a function of discourse/onebox. https://github.com/discourse/onebox Doesn’t appear to work with WordPress installations. Because it doesn’t pull in our regular site either. [image] Tribe Rocket Client-side editing workspace for faceless short-form social …

[image] jameshahnii: Doesn’t appear to work with WordPress installations Discourse oneboxes do work with WordPress sites. If a link fails to onebox, it is likely because either the page it links to is missing the necessary Open Graph data, or because the request from Discourse is being blocke…

WPEngine is known to blacklist https requests from user-agents they don’t like @jameshahnii . (I deleted the extremely verbose support chat you posted since it can be correctly summarized with the previous sentence I just wrote.)

Hi Guys, I appreciate the responses. I learned two things: That feature is called onebox. I probably should have used an example from my own blog that is not working with onebox. I run the blog on WordPress and it is hosted by BlueHost . This is a sample link that is not working: https://so…

The problem with https://sobervegan.com/hey-honey-are-you-vegan/ is that the page it points to is missing the Open Graph tags that Discourse needs to find before it can create a onebox. Searching Google for ‘add open graph tags wordpress’ returns some good results. This page gives a few options fo…

Thank you Simon. I will check it out and see if I can learn more about this. I appreciate your help. Scot

Why Do Some Blog Posts in Discourse Have A Preview?

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msmith512 (Michael Smith) October 22, 2019, 3:09pm 9

I’m bumping this thread to report that URL previews are now working for WP Engine sites.

Topic		Replies	Views
Onebox doesn't work for WordPress Support	5	1481	January 31, 2017
Link preview not working for specific site Support	10	2395	December 13, 2019
URL previews are now working for WP Engine sites Support	0	661	October 22, 2019
Incorrect or failing oneboxes for links to other discourse instances Bug	16	2283	August 17, 2017
Onebox preview isn't shown for my own blog Support onebox	3	288	June 29, 2024

Why Do Some Blog Posts in Discourse Have A Preview?

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