Title: Bright Link Previews Author: ginoplusio Published: September 17, 2023 Last modified: February 19, 2024 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/bright-link-previews/assets/banner-772x250.gif?rev=2970607) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/bright-link-previews/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2967941) # Bright Link Previews By [ginoplusio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ginoplusio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bright-link-previews.1.84.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/#installation) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/) ## Description **TLDR**: A WordPress plugin that shows previews of links (clear, neat, simple), analyzes links href urls and tracks user’s behaviour on the links of your site. **Bright Link Previews is a preview maker and a link analyzer** This is an innovative WordPress plugin that adds neat link previews to your site, it also allows you to track user behaviour on the links in your site and helps you to analyze the health of the links distributed in your articles. This plugin scans each link on your site pages, analyzes linked urls and retrieves data to build a nice detailed preview. With Bright Link Previews, your website links will be easier to read and navigate, as the previews will provide a clear description of each page and its content. Your users will love it. Bright Link Previews is a great plugin to help make your website look more professional and organized. Additionally, it provides a report with links that shows the clicks on each link, hover movements and broken links, which helps you to understand which arguments of your links are followed by users. You can easily find and fix broken links to keep your site working. Bright Link Previews is also easy to customize, it’s mobile friendly and allows you to manage link targets all over your site. You can apply the preview both on internal and external links, on your post contents and your comment texts. It comes with a built in cache for speed, different styles, and more to come. With Bright Link Previews, you will be able to quickly customize your website and make sure that all links are working properly. The plugin is also extremely lightweight, so it won’t slow down your website. ### Features * generate previews of all links open to url crawling (v.note) * generate previews of all ecommerce links showing also prices (works with Amazon links, Shopify links and Woocommerce links) * handle images smartly, choosing the best image * mobile friendly, works also on mobile * cache the previews to speed up loading times * find broken links and show errors in back office stats report * detailed daily stats for clicks, hoverings, link rel nofollow and rel sponsored * optionally show to your users where other users have clicked * optionally apply target blank attribute to all external links * choose different popup styles and customize colors * code ready for internazionalization Note: some links (like Facebook or Instagram) could be read only partially because the owners of these sites use to block crawling calls like the ones used in this plugin ## Installation After installation go to settings and choose your style and your configuration. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2dddc4abf65cca78fa3663b35cfc1f0674d126fe73d8564d0d08f60f7da4f23a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Free and does exactly what it says](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-and-does-exactly-what-it-says/)󠁿 [Dan Greene](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dgreene423/) May 27, 2025 This plugin does exactly what it says it will do, show link previews as tooltips. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/247f8ff1b662f734992ee1235506c4bffc13367a40f638a9d5997b308f38901f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great plugin, still working great as well](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-still-working-great-aswell/)󠁿 [passieee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/passieee/) May 6, 2025 Simple little plugin that does what it’s supposed to do and keeps on working. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50d82595f0e1dfe8da9a755c7a8a5b959be72f1f6550f49862bc2dc1a435e9c9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does what is promised it does and has a very helpful developer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-what-is-promised-it-does-and-has-a-very-helpful-developer/)󠁿 [jarnovandriel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jarnovandriel/) November 25, 2023 I truly do not understand why there are so few installs of this plugin. It does exactly what it is supposed to do at 0 costs. There is absolutely no need to choose for paid variants.And to top it off, the Bright Link Previews has avery responsive and helpful developer. [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Bright Link Previews” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ ginoplusio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ginoplusio/) [Translate “Bright Link Previews” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bright-link-previews) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bright-link-previews/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bright-link-previews/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bright-link-previews/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bright-link-previews/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0 * First version #### 1.1 * Bug fixes #### 1.2 * Bug fixes #### 1.3 * Bug fixed, blank screen on Gutenberg #### 1.4 * Bug fixed: an additional HTML tag is added to content #### 1.6 * Fixed warnings in ajax calls with PHP 8.1 #### 1.7 * Bug fixings (thanks to adamgreenough) and new setting to disable the popup on mobile devices #### 1.81 * Fixed Schrödinger’s cat bug (thanks to jvandriel who found the cat!) * Improved HTML of the pop up, now it hasn’t heading tags * CSS and JS calls now have a version number #### 1.82 * Fixed a bug with htmlspecialchars_decode #### 1.83 * Fixed a bug with iconv, used again htmlspecialchars_decode ## Meta * Version **1.84** * Last updated **2 years ago** * Active installations **40+** * WordPress version ** 6.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.4.8** * PHP version ** 7.0 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/) * Tags * [href](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/href/)[links](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/) [previews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/previews/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/bright-link-previews/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ ginoplusio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ginoplusio/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bright-link-previews/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://github.com/sponsors/giuliopons)