Is there a way to create posts by pulling summary content from external links in the same way that Linkedin or Facebook does? I would like to be able to paste in a link from a news site, for example, and have the title, graphic and content snippet show up with a link back to the original post – ie the post summary is created automatically from the original. I’d then like to be able to add just a couple of lines of extra comment above this.
I’m new to WordPress.
PS: I’ve tried the Embed and Custom HTML blocks but the latter doesn’t show anything and the former just shows “refuses to connect”.
I now assume this means the content is blocked at the server so it’s not possible to bypass it – unless I post to social media first then to my own site.
If anyone knows a workaround for this, please let me know.