Jetpack Social: Link Preview Documentation

[bobmatyas]

Impacted plugin

Social

Quick summary

When you use the Jetpack sidebar to preview what a post will look like, there is a text:

Link preview

This is what it will look like when someone shares the link to your WordPress post on X.
Learn > more about links↗

It's unclear what users are supposed to learn about links by clicking on the link

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new post
2. Click the "Preview" button in the Jetpack sidebar
3. See the text referenced above on the previews for when a post is linked on social networks

Site owner impact

More than 60% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Minor

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

Platform revenue, No revenue impact

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Self-hosted

[github-actions]

OpenAI suggested the following labels for this issue:

• [Feature Group] User Interaction & Engagement: The issue centers around how users interact with link previews in the Jetpack Social plugin, impacting engagement with shared posts.
• [Feature] Publicize: This feature relates directly to Jetpack Social's auto-sharing capabilities, which are central to the issue being discussed.
• [Feature] Sharing: The issue concerns the sharing of links on social networks, making this label appropriate for the context of link previews.