Title: Visual Link Preview external linking?
Last modified: July 29, 2022

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# Visual Link Preview external linking?

 *  Resolved [mungbean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mungbean/)
 * (@mungbean)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-link-preview-external-linking/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’d like to use TA with VLP ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview/))
   and specifically with external links.
 * I tried to use a cloaked TA link with VLP as an external link but it just renders
   a Thirsty Affiliate link preview, rather than the actual link destination.
 * Ideally, I’d be able to select or copy/paste a cloaked TA link into the VLP widget
   as an external link (assuming link destination is external) and have VLP be able
   to retrieve link preview data from the destination, but when the VLP is inserted
   into content and rendered, clicking it would use the cloaked TA link.
 * I’d like to use TA as a link manager (centralized updating and link reusing) 
   and a cloaker with VLP.
 * Is this possible or planned?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Caseproof LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caseproof/)
 * (@caseproof)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-link-preview-external-linking/#post-15870409)
 * Hi,
 * We tested the VLP plugin and it works exactly as you described. The preview is
   from the redirected URL and the link is to the ThirstyAffiliates URL. It’s not
   clear why it wouldn’t work for you, maybe you could try adding a completely new
   ThirstyAffiliates link in case there is a caching issue with an existing one.
 *  Thread Starter [mungbean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mungbean/)
 * (@mungbean)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-link-preview-external-linking/#post-15874108)
 * I tried it again, and it did what you described (as desired), putting the cloaked
   TA link in the VLP widget as an external link, did generate the VLP preview of
   the destination link, while still displaying/using the cloaked link on the front
   end.
 * I did test changing the destination link for the existing slug, cleared the cache,
   and it still seems to be pulling in the previous destination link data for the
   VLP preview, but the actual destination link is the new one. SO it appears either
   VLP is caching the preview data with the slug, rather than retrieving the new
   destination link info for the preview.
 * Is there a way to automatically update the VLPs if an existing slug has the destination
   link changed, without having to go through each instance of the VLP to delete/
   create the VLP again?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Caseproof LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caseproof/)
 * (@caseproof)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-link-preview-external-linking/#post-15876689)
 * There isn’t a way of doing this automatically, unfortunately.
 * Sorry to disappoint.

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