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Visual Link Preview
Stylish link snippets that might hit a wall once API limits run out.
HealthyGrowing
77/100
The visual templates are great but undisclosed API limits and Elementor issues cause frustration.
Active installs
~27,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
36 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+87%
Growing fast
49 → 92 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +87% in the last year
49/day a year ago→92/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayVisual Link Preview is praised for its automatic content fetching and highly customizable template editor, but users report hidden API limits, Elementor incompatibility, and limited styling flexibility.
What people like
- +Automatically retrieves images and content from external websites
- +Robust template editor with many styling options (border color, font size, custom style templates)×3
- +Easy to use and lightweight
- +Responsive developer support
- +Convenient for creating quick button-style links or press-coverage sections
Common complaints
- −Undisclosed Microlink API limit of 50 requests per day and no notification when the limit is reached
- −Does not work with Elementor page builder
- −Cannot adjust image sizes; all previews share the same size and links may be unclickable on the live page
- −Missing localisation support for strings like “read more” buttons
- −Cannot add new blocks in templates, limiting template flexibility
- −No option to vertically centre images in the sidebar
- −No support for previewing PDF files
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.51★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 36 total
Latest reviews · 36 analyzed
- 2025-08-25★★★★★Great plugin – exactly what I neededredpandazine
- 2025-07-07★★★★★Terrible product designmichaelzfreeman
- 2025-05-28★★★★★This plugin is amazing!Dan Greene
- 2024-09-11★★★★★Must have to show a press review !clinicien
- 2023-12-29★★★★★Impressive plugin!Jimmy Lee
- 2023-12-06★★★★★This plugin is fantastic!ste_yeu
- 2023-12-06★★★★★Limitationsxolde
- 2023-09-23★★★★★Tam Aradığım Eklentikaptaninyeri
- 2023-09-02★★★★★GoodTae Hyeon
- 2023-07-29★★★★★Perfect!ebonweaver
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
133
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
127
Prior 7-day baseline
134
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,882
Mean release-day peak (30d)
287
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+4.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.79
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.53 → 4.51★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered