Formatting article links in forum posts

[rduradio]

Hi all, I hope this is the best thread for this question. I've been on this site for a while but I'd like to be able to make my posts look more attractive.

How do I go about having article links I share on my posts look like they do here? The top post has the title of the article and a short preview about the KYW article on Inside Radio. It also takes a preview image from the site on which the article is hosted. I'd like to format articles I post to look like this, rather than just being plain hyperlinked text.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[vchimpanzee]

I can never be sure what will happen when I post a link. Sometimes it is a completely meaningless URL. Sometimes it is a URL which states what it is about. Ideally, there will be a title of the article and where it comes from, and a short description. But I don't know how to make that happen.

 

[davideduardo]

I can never be sure what will happen when I post a link. Sometimes it is a completely meaningless URL. Sometimes it is a URL which states what it is about. Ideally, there will be a title of the article and where it comes from, and a short description. But I don't know how to make that happen.

In my experience, it depends on whether "the Internet" is picking up the actual article or just copying the title. With WorldRadioHistory I have seen links that show the actual content cited, and others that only have the bare URL.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Yeah, what David said. It all formats automatically by the board software and whether or not it "sees" the entire article with image and summary.

I suspect there is some kind of search engine-affiliated database that it checks.