Recently while browsing the WordPress plugin repository, we stumbled upon a pretty neat plugin that allows you to embed videos and more in WordPress comments by extending the oEmbed support. oEmbed in Comments plugin is created by Evan Solomon, a Growth Engineer at Automattic. For those of you who don’t know what oEmbed is, it allows you to easily embed videos, slides, and other services without dealing with the ugly embed codes. See our article on How to easily Embed videos in WordPress for more details.
Let’s go ahead and install and activate this plugin. Once you have activated it, that’s it. There is no settings page for this plugin.
Go to your comments and paste a Youtube Video URL. It will automatically embed that video. Check out the screenshot below:
One of the biggest issue we noticed with this plugin is that it has no way to resize the videos. You are forced to use the same video width that you have in your post content. This can be an issue because most comment content areas are smaller than post content box. Secondly, if you have threaded comments, then there is an extra indentation that you have to account for. Aside from this, it seems like a pretty useful plugin for video bloggers. Because you can now have youtube style video responses on your own site.
I want a plugin that works like a post in Facebook. I want to drop the URL in it and have it take advantage of the metadata to display the indicated picture with the intro text and while doing that I can add my personal words above it. This would also retain the existing abilities for media players.
Can you make something that can do all that? If so, it would be a true winner.
I’m testing adding jpegs to comments. Thanks.
If you style your comment areas with a “max-width” equal to its width, it’ll force videos and images included within it to scale to the proper size.
Of course, accounting for the max-width of nested comments may be a bit trickier.
Is it possible to upload CAD-files (dwg, cde etc.) or other specific file types using this plugin?
No it would only enable support for sites with oEmbed support and whitelisted in WordPress.
Is there anyway to integrate this with the YouTube upload API, so a user can upload their video right on the page?
Upload right on what page? Not sure what you are trying to ask here.
Thank You very much for this plugin.