Linking to Amazon – No embed, no affiliate link

  • I have to say, I HATE the Amazon Kindle Block.

    I’m starting a little family only buddypress site to get away from Facebook. I want people to be able to link to amazon without the amazon kindle preview. Just a link. Any suggestions? I see that even the classic editor plugin still has the kindle preview.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Nothing prevents you from putting any link you want in your content. If you don’t want the embed functionality, don’t use the block and don’t put the link on a line by itself.
    If you are seeing it in the Classic Editor, it is not a block. Blocks are only in the block editor.
    But embeds are cached in the post’s meta data so it is faster to display. That means if you tried the block and it was cached, then put the link by itself on a line in the Classic Editor, it would still use the cache to display.
    This page shows all the sites that are checked for embeds. https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/classes/wp_oembed/

    You can even see the same thing here in the forums, if you post a link to a WP page on a line by itself, it will embed (and chop off the #target). So always put your URLs with the other text or as an actual HTML link <a href="">.

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    I have used a button block with the link directly to to amazon.com. Looks like a normal colored button, no embed.

    Thread Starter doone

    (@doone)

    Thank you! Not having the URL on it’s own line in the buddypress activity feed works nicely (no option to choose blocks, etc.). I didn’t think of that :).

    And thank you, lisa, for the button block tip!

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