Better Share Links shortcode

Better Share Links shortcode plugin:

• The better way of sharing important links is to share them with their screenshot.

• The plugin makes sharing links(URLs) more user friendly.

• The plugin require API key from page2images.com(Read step 7 of the installation instructions )

• The free account gives the user 3000 calls per month.

• The free account works only on http URL addresses.

• The author of this plugin is not associated in any way with the API provider.

• The shortcode will output a standard clickable link, until a screenshot is generated.

• Text button “Share link” within TinyMCE editor that outputs [better_share_link url=”|||||” ]

• More options coming to this plugin, as an admin page, in which the webmaster can include a custom CSS, enabling and disabling features, etc.

The current template of the shortcode is –

• A title within H3 tag(the title is obtained via “PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser”).

• A subtitle within H6 tag containing the URL address itself

• The image of the screenshot

• All of the three parts are links.

The SEO optimized output of the shortcode contains –

• Alt tag, title tag of the image are equal to the title of the shared URL.

• The filename of the image is the sanitized title of the URL, i.e. the whitespaces are replaced with dashes(-).

• The height and the width of image are set within the ‘img’ tag.

• All the outputted links are nofollow.