I have a custom meta box set up that allows users to paste the Youtube URL of a video so that it can be embedded into a post/page. The meta box can be repeated so that a user can add as few or as many URL’s as they wish so I’m using this code snippet … Read more
For WordPress, I want to auto generate thumb of the video embedded on a page using oembed? And then save it as a featured image of the post. Any idea how to do this? 2 s 2 I needed just this for a recent project, so here’s my plugin! The code should be self-explanatory, but … Read more
I have a site with tons of posts hundreds/thousands of which have YouTube videos embedded. Most use the default youtube_url format and the actual embed code is stored in the oEmbed postmeta fields. I switched the site to HTTPS and a new domain, and now the old videos don’t show unless I resave the post. … Read more
The goal is to grab the first video (embed or shortcode) from the post. So we need to check post content if it has embedded videos ( supported by WP ) or shortcodes. Multiple videos and embeds could exist in the single post. If found any – return the very first of them, not depending … Read more
I have a function in my wordpress theme that deletes the first embedded video in a video post. See code below. This is in the functions.php file. /* – function that hides first video in post content – */ function process_embed( $embed ){ if ( is_single() && get_post_format() === ‘video’ ) { static $post_video_num = … Read more
I’m trying to create a conditional statement for the content width in the functions.php of my theme. So some categories will have a content_width of 580, some will have 900. This will make the oEmbed work correctly wherever it’s used. Usually, you would have this in your functions.php: if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) … Read more
I want to specify an alternative image that will be displayed when oEmbed fails. The specific use case is to offer an alternative when China (or other countries) block YouTube. We know the YouTube content won’t be available there, but want to provide an alternate image in that case. Can the oEmbed error code be … Read more
My copy of WordPress outputs two <link/> tags in the header of (nearly?) every page. They look like this. <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/json+oembed” href=”http://example.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fbust%2F” /> <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml+oembed” href=”http://example.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fbust%2F&format=xml” /> What are these oembed links for? Do they need to be here for WordPress to do things? Or are they here so other sites can better … Read more
I’m having a problem here: I am passing this through a custom field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6P1Q-UycHA&autoplay=1 (notice the autoplay=1) But when I load the video on my theme using wp_oembed_get… it displays the video fine, but it does not listen to the autoplay=1 variable I am passing through. I need the videos to play on the load … Read more
I am making a WordPress Theme for a website with video tutorials. I would like to put the video that is embedded in the content (with oEmbed) in a apart div. An example The full content (output from the_content()) is something like this: <p><iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/0000000″ width=”900″ height=”506″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></p> <p>This is an Test … Read more
