The easiest way to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and more on your BuddyPress network.
Author: | r-a-y (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | WP 2.9 / W |
WordPress version tested: | WP 2.9 / W |
Plugin version: | 0.52 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 19-02-2010 |
Last updated: | 22-02-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI: | http://buddypress.org/groups/oembed-for-buddy... |
Total downloads: | 29 029 |
Active installs: | 50+ |
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The easiest way to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and more on your BuddyPress network.
oEmbed for BuddyPress utilizes WordPress' own oEmbed class, so by default, you can share content from the following sites:
- YouTube
- Blip.tv
- Vimeo
- DailyMotion
- Flickr
- Hulu
- Viddler
- Qik
- Revision3
- Photobucket
- Scribd
- WordPress.tv
How do you use the plugin? Simple! Input any URL from one of the listed sites above into an activity update or forum post in BuddyPress.
When the update is posted, the URL automagically transforms into the embedded content.
FAQ
What is oEmbed
oEmbed is a simple API that allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource. It was designed to avoid copying and pasting HTML from the media you wish to embed.
What is oEmbed for BuddyPress?
oEmbed for BuddyPress utilizes WordPress’ own oEmbed class, so by default, you can share content from the following sites:
- YouTube
- Blip.tv
- Vimeo
- DailyMotion
- Flickr
- Hulu
- Viddler
- Qik
- Revision3
- Photobucket
- Scribd
- WordPress.tv
The plugin allows you to input any URL from one of the listed sites above into an activity update or forum post in BuddyPress.
When the update is posted, the URL automagically transforms into the embedded content. There is no GUI.
For more information, check out the “Other Notes” tab.
What version of BuddyPress do I need to use this plugin?
You need at least BuddyPress 1.2, which in turn requires WordPress 2.9 or WordPress MU 2.9.1.1.
Where’s the admin settings page?
oEmbed for BuddyPress works transparently in the background.
There is no admin settings page! This is intentional (at least for now). All settings can be modified in bp-oembed-config.php
.
By default, the plugin allows embedding in activity updates, activity comments and forum posts.
Then how do I turn off oEmbed for certain BuddyPress components?
Open bp-oembed-config.php
in a text editor.
Let’s say you wanted to disable oEmbed for activity comments.
Find the following line:
$bp_oembed['activity_comments'] = true;
And change it to:
$bp_oembed['activity_comments'] = false;
How do I extend WordPress’ oEmbed provider list?
By default, you can only embed content from websites listed on WordPress’ internal whitelist. This is to prevent the embedding of malicious content from untrustworthy websites.
To add an oEmbed provider, read the following article for more info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#Adding_Support_For_An_oEmbed-Enabled_Site
The other option is you can override WordPress’ internal whitelist and enable any site that is oEmbeddable by downloading and activating Viper007Bond’s Enable oEmbed Discovery plugin.
You should only activate the oEmbed Discovery plugin if you trust your user base. You’ve been warned.
ChangeLog
0.52
- No more plugin folder renaming! (thanks apeatling)
0.51
- Added rename plugin folder instructions (IMPORTANT)
- Fixed “cannot modify header information” bug (thanks geoffm33 for reporting)
- Moved default, whitelist items out of config to plugin base
- Added BuddyPress domain to whitelist
- Added instructions to extend oEmbed provider list to readme.txt
0.5