New Plugin: Enable oEmbed Discovery
For security reasons, the UI to enable oEmbed’s discovery ability was removed from WordPress today. It’d be too easy for a novice to accidentally embed some bad HTML into their blog if they posted the...
View ArticleWordPress 2.9
WordPress 2.9 was released yesterday and I thought it was worth reposting the introduction video done by the fabulous Michael Pick: Note that the above video is embedded using the new embeds feature...
View ArticleTracking WordPress Remote HTTP Requests
I thought I’d share a bit of code that I run on my local WordPress test install to see when WordPress is contacting another website. I originally wrote this to help debug my oEmbed code, but it’s...
View ArticleCreating Simple oEmbed-Based WordPress Shortcodes
Say you wanted to create a shortcode like this: [youtube id="991WcoEPwb8"] And instead of manually creating the HTML yourself, you wanted to use YouTube’s oEmbed provider to get the HTML. While that’s...
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