🎉 Easily display website screenshots of any URL in your Wordpress site 🎉
This plugin uses the Urlbox API to generate website screenshots and display them on your site. Please note the Urlbox API is a paid service - you can sign up for a trial at
https://urlbox.com.
How to use the plugin
When running Wordpress locally or in a containerised environment, we recommend you use at least Wordpress version 6.0 and PHP 8.0.
- First activate the plugin and fill in your Urlbox.com API Key and Secret in the settings page.
- (Optional) You can set default options for your screenshots such as width, height, and thumbnail width on the plugin settings page.
- Now when you want to display a screenshot inside a post or page, just use the following in a Shortcode block:
[urlbox url=
google.com] // display a screenshot of
google.com
If you want to override any of the settings, just pass the option into the shortcode:
[urlbox url=
google.com full_page=true thumbnail_width=400] // display a full_page screenshot of
google.com thumnailed down to 400px wide
The plugin wraps the
<img>
element inside a
<figure>
element. You can set the class of both the figure and the img elements from the settings page (which will apply to all screenshots), and also override these settings for an individual screenshot by passing the options in the shortcode:
[urlbox url=
google.com figure_class=my-figure-class img_class=my-img-class ] // change the css classes of the wrapping figure and img element
What do you need
1.6.2
Update instances of .io to .com. This includes the generated URL made by the generateUrl() method.
1.6.1
Performs a refactor of the plugin, fixing a bug in the proxy logic, adding more documentation to docblocks, improving security issues, and decoupling proxy logic into a specific test method for the proxy connection and a generalised POST /sync method.
1.6.0
Introduce proxy logic, so users can make urlbox screenshot requests via their proxy which is set in the plugin settings.
1.5.4
Fixes minor bug introduced in 1.5.3 - Checkbox state wasn't held in settings.
1.5.3
Updates shortcode logic to allow an 'alt' attribute in the tag
1.5.2
Updated shortcode logic to allow all Urlbox API options
1.5.1
Updated HTML output and instructions for the block editor; tested with WordPress 5.9
1.5
Fixed minor bugs and tested with WordPress 5.7-beta
1.0
Initial Release