Title: Longer Description
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Longer Description

 *  Resolved [sangeorgej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sangeorgej/)
 * (@sangeorgej)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/longer-description-1/)
 * Currently when a link is inserted it pulls one sentence of the article. Is it
   possible to pull more. I’d like to see the first 4. We use this tool to support
   content that we are discussing in our blog posts. The more the reader sees the
   less likely they are to leave the site.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/z-url-preview/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/z-url-preview/)

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 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/longer-description-1/#post-7507472)
 * If you are pulling your own content, then you would need to ensure that a longer
   meta/og description is provided, as that will be used.
 * If it’s someone else’s content, it will pull the description that the author 
   chose to provide.
 * It should (from memory as it’s late) only fail back to pulling the 1st p tag 
   if there is no og or meta description.
 *  Thread Starter [sangeorgej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sangeorgej/)
 * (@sangeorgej)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/longer-description-1/#post-7507647)
 * Thank you for the response. My feature request would then be to add 2-4 lines
   of content from the post if it’s available.
 * Here are two sites we are using your plugin with.
 * ‘[https://a2z-insurance.com&#8217](https://a2z-insurance.com&#8217);
    ‘[http://patriciastraus.com/&#8217](http://patriciastraus.com/&#8217);
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/longer-description-1/#post-7507727)
 * Sorry, and I know this is not what you want to hear… but, this is meant to be
   a “link preview”, like FB links. It is meant for users to read a little, as part
   of the site’s own content, and then read the remote site’s content if they wish.
   It is not meant to replicate all/most of the source page to prevent people going
   off to read the source page.
 * Changing it to do this would go far beyond it’s purpose. It may even exceed “
   fair use” / “fair dealing”. As I’m in the EU, for the next 2 years anyway, our
   rules are a lot stricter than there.
 * You can, obviously, manually paste in additional content when creating your posts.
   With the plug-in doing the basic intro, link and image.
 * If you have a local coder, it should be easy enough for them to fork the source
   and change it to what you want. But, it just doesn’t fit with the designed purpose
   of the plugin. Sorry.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/longer-description-1/#post-7507727)
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