Urlbox Screenshots
🎉 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.
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First activate the plugin and fill in your Urlbox.com API Key and Secret in the settings page.
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(Optional) You can set default options for your screenshots such as width, height, and thumbnail width on the plugin settings page.
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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
[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
- WordPress
- A Urlbox Account
- Your Urlbox API key and secret (From: https://urlbox.com)
Known Bugs
1.6.0 – Bug in proxy logic. Testing one’s proxy connection in the plugin’s settings will not work due to an ‘Invalid JSON’ error, because of a lack of JSON encoding. This error does not display in the WordPress playground, but will display in any dockerised/live environment. Action taken was to fix the bug and release 1.6.1, and introduce a dockerised test/development environment for future coverage before releases.
| Domain | Exposures | Headers | Last Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| q*a*-*a*a*-*t*c*c.com (WP 6.8.8) | F | Aug 27, 2026 | |
| b*a*d*a*l*r*.com (WP 6.9.5) | F | Jul 17, 2026 | |
| b*u*d*e*s*i*d*f*i*e.com | F | Jul 16, 2026 |