I am creating a new WordPress website that will contain thousands of online books and articles to read, in addition to other media, like videos. I don’t want to bloat my database by pasting tens of thousands of pages worth of text, so I want to create the books chapters as html, then embed these … Read more
By default, when putting another WP url inside a post/page, it oEmbeds it and produces a blockquote and iframe code with the default in the front-end: <iframe class=”wp-embedded-content” sandbox=”allow-scripts” security=”restricted” ….></iframe> It also produces an error in the JS console XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://example.com/wp-content/themes/themename/js/test.js. No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘null’ … Read more
We followed Brian Fegter’s answer to display YouTube videos using WordPress’ oEmbed feature: // Public video. $video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lODe0i7dNw”; require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-includes/class-wp-oembed.php’); $oembed = new WP_oEmbed; // Auto-detect the video provider with the following $provider = $oembed->discover($video_url); $video = $oembed->fetch($provider, $video_url); echo $video->html; The code worked earlier. But right now it’s not working. We’re using WordPress 5.3.2. … Read more
Is there any way to disable the oEmbed functionality only for a specific call of the do_shortcode() function in just one script or if that is not possible can it be disabled for all the internal links on a site currently running WordPress 4.5.3? I’ve tried using this line but it had no effect: wp_oembed_remove_provider( … Read more
How can I make oEmbed work on the excerpt field so I only have to paste the youtube url in there and then be able to echo ‘get_the_excerpt()’? I also want to filter oEmbed and change the wmode but I think I found a solution for that here: http://code.hyperspatial.com/all-code/wordpress-code/oembed-wmode/ EDIT: Crap! I was wrong, it … Read more
I need to hide the comments icon on oEmbed widgets or disable the comments icon feature completely. I’ve been looking at the following links: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/embed.php/ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.5/src/wp-includes/embed.php What I came up with after thinking for a while was this. I feel its a bit hacky, however it works. I copied the code from the_embed_site_title() and added … Read more
The W3C Validator outputs an error because WordPress adds frameborder=”0″ to iframes. Also the Validator does not like the allow attribute. I found a similar question for Vimeo Videos: WordPress oEmbed W3C Validation. However, I couldn’t get it to work. That’s the code I added to the function.php file which however does not work: add_filter( … Read more
Is this possible? I want to let it check all my posts to see if there is a embedded Youtube video. If so, I want to show that on a different page, embedded and linking to that particular post… I tried the following snippet, but that did not work for me. It doesn’t embed a … Read more
With newer versions of WordPress, YouTube auto oEmbeds. On this particular site I am working on, I need a unique div wrapper around the embedded iframe. I had a look in my functions.php but couldn’t see anything related to YouTube. Where would I find the code I need to add my extra html? 2 Answers … Read more
I run a small site based on wp with user generated content. Users often submit youtube links. And then wordpress automatically converts these links to videos which is unwanted in our case. I need to override this automatic behavior so that the submitted youtube links remains in plain text urls ? I found out that … Read more
