Title: Shortcode support?
Last modified: January 30, 2020

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# Shortcode support?

 *  Resolved [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/)
 * Did you add plain shortcode support?
 * Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12379969)
 * Both a block and shortcode are available:
    [https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/article/172-adding-a-visual-link](https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/article/172-adding-a-visual-link)
 *  Thread Starter [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12387189)
 * Thank you for your reply.
 * I am afraid I don’t see any shortcode at the page you linked me, I just see there
   is a block, but I need a shortcode cause I mostly post via mail and that way 
   shortcodes are the way to go.
 * Thank you.
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12387207)
 * The “Adding a Visual Link in the Classic Editor” section in that documentation
   covers how to add the shortcode.
 * The visual editor will actually show a preview but you can go to “Text Editor”
   Go copy the shortcode itself.
 * It’s not a typical shortcode though but rather used encoded values. So it might
   not work for what you’re trying to do.
 *  Thread Starter [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12387800)
 * Thank you.
 * What I would need is a shortcode like, say, `[preview="http://www.myurl.it]` 
   so that I can just include it into mails.
 * Do you confirm the plugin does not sport such a kind of shortcode?
 * Otherwise if it’s encoded maybe is there a way to generate it starting from a
   plain text link?
 * Thank you.
 *  [Andreas Wagner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hollawaldfee/)
 * (@hollawaldfee)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12472640)
 * i’d like to second that request. is there any way one can do without the encoding
   on the editor side?
 * i’d like to use the plugin in conjunction with with a microblogging style theme
   which does provide a frontend editor, but without the kitchensink wysiwyg tools.
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12472682)
 * I’ll look into allowing both regular attributes and the encoding we currently
   use.
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12795679)
 * Hi again,
 * I wanted to let you know I just released Visual Link Preview 2.1.0 which now 
   allows you to manually construct the shortcode as well. There’s some more information
   here: [https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/article/262-manually-construct-the-vlp-shortcode](https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/article/262-manually-construct-the-vlp-shortcode)
 *  Thread Starter [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12797958)
 * Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-support-35/#post-12797958)
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