Another way to add a link as a content card is to add the Embed block in the block editor

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WordPress then automatically converts it into a content card.To do this, you need to open the block editor of the page or post. Then simply click on the “+” button and select the “Embed” block.

Embed block
You can now paste the URL of the blog post into the block field. Then click on the “Embed” button.

WordPress then automatically retrieves the metadata for the URL and converts it into a content card.

Adding link in embed block
How do the content cards work?
By default, WordPress uses oEmbed technology to retrieve metadata information from websites that support oEmbed formats.

All WordPress websites natively support the oEmbed protocol. This means that you can embed links from a typical WordPress website as a content card on your website.

In addition to WordPress websites, you can also embed list of algeria cell phone number content from many popular websites that already support oEmbeds.

Other WordPress Embeds
For example, you can embed YouTube videos instantly by simply pasting a video URL.

This is what it might look like in your block editor:

Embedding YouTube content
Note: Facebook and Instagram embeds do not work out of the box on WordPress sites. You will need the free Smash Balloon Facebook plugin to easily embed content cards from these platforms.

For more information on this topic, check out our guide on how to embed Instagram content in WordPress .

We hope this article helped you learn how to easily embed links as content cards in WordPress. You may also be interested in our guide on how to cloak affiliate links or how to add titles and nofollow to insert link popups in WordPress .