Jeffrey Donenfeld

Tag: oembed

  • WordPress 3.4 Green Automagically Embeds Tweets

    Great new functionality in the new version of WordPress 3.4 Green – custom embeds for Tweets. Glad to see WP is adding support for new media types, and reaching through URL’s to custom format. Other features of WordPress 3.4 in the codex changelog.

    https://twitter.com/jeffzilla/status/213338436994732032

    They’ve actually already been doing this with sites like Flickr and YouTube, by way of the OEmbed Protocol, and it looks like 3.4’s integration with Twitter really is just an extension of oEmbed. Nice going! According to WordPress, oEmbed now works with these sites:

    • YouTube (only public videos and playlists – “unlisted” and “private” videos will not embed)
    • Vimeo
    • DailyMotion
    • blip.tv
    • Flickr (both videos and images)
    • Viddler
    • Hulu
    • Qik
    • Revision3
    • Scribd
    • Photobucket
    • PollDaddy
    • WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
    • SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)
    • FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)
    • Twitter (WordPress 3.4+)

    More on oEmbed in my previous post “Using oEmbed for Dynamic, Futureproof Embedded Videos and Photos“

  • Using oEmbed for Dynamic, Futureproof Embedded Videos and Photos

    Using oEmbed for Dynamic, Futureproof Embedded Videos and Photos

    When writing and maintaining the codebase of my website, I’ve always tried to adhere the the highest degree of code standards compliance, flexibility, compatibility, and future maintainability and relevance. I’ve kept the use of plugins to a minimum, and have made sure that as much site content as possible is optimillay visible without the use of any special plugin or embed option. As this site glides into the future, I want all of the content to remain accessible.

    When it comes to embedding media content on blog posts, there’s always a question of how to embed it most effectively. With YouTube, for example, should I use the flash embed code? iFrame embed code? Straight up HTML5 tags? What’s going to be the best for acessibility now, and into the future?

    I always try to answer this question with asking “what’s the most simple, straightforward way to do it”. Lately with video, that answer has been YouTube’s iFrame embed code. By using this embed code, I’m essentially creating a portal in my blog post over to YouTube, and then letting YouTube decide which is the best way to display the media – whether it’s their standard flash video player, or newer h.264 or WebM video players – or whatever else comes up in the future.
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