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9 Useful Youtube Tips to Spice Up Your WordPress Site with Videos

Posted on February 5th, 2014 by Editorial Staff
9 Useful Youtube Tips to Spice Up Your WordPress Site with Videos

We all know that videos are highly engaging. If you’re looking to add videos to your site or already have videos on your site, then you will love this article. In this article, we will share 9 useful Youtube tips to spice up your WordPress… Read More »

How to Embed Facebook Status Posts in WordPress

Posted on September 23rd, 2013 by Editorial Staff
How to Embed Facebook Status Posts in WordPress

Earlier on WPBeginner, we showed you how to embed tweets in your WordPress post. Recently Facebook announced the ability to embed Facebook Status Posts anywhere on the web. In this article, we will show you how to embed Facebook statuses in your WordPress posts and… Read More »

How to Enable oEmbed in WordPress Text Widgets

Posted on May 7th, 2013 by Editorial Staff
How to Enable oEmbed in WordPress Text Widgets

Recently, one of our users asked us how to enable oEmbed in WordPress text widgets. oEmbed is a protocol that allows your blog to ask an oEmbed enabled website to provide HTML needed to embed dynamic content. In simple words, it allows you to just… Read More »

How to Add MP3 Audio Files in WordPress

Posted on January 9th, 2013 by Editorial Staff
How to Add MP3 Audio Files in WordPress

Uploading audio and video files to WordPress using the Media Uploader is easy. Even though the media uploader recognizes these files and display appropriate file-type icons next to them, WordPress does not have a media player that can play these files. You can use a… Read More »

How to Dynamically Change the oEmbed Width and Height in WordPress

Posted on December 19th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
How to Dynamically Change the oEmbed Width and Height in WordPress

In our earlier article, we showed you how to set oEmbed max width in WordPress 3.5 using $content_width. That is a perfectly good solution for changing the oEmbed max width and height, but that change is global. In a recent project, we wanted to have… Read More »

How to Set oEmbed Max Width in WordPress 3.5 with $content_width

Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
How to Set oEmbed Max Width in WordPress 3.5 with $content_width

Today, we saw the release of WordPress 3.5 which came with tons of amazing features. As we upgraded one site after another, we noticed an issue on one of the sites we manage. The embedded video size were changed, and the embedded videos were a… Read More »

How to Easily Embed Instagram in WordPress with oEmbed

Posted on November 5th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
How to Easily Embed Instagram in WordPress with oEmbed

In the past we have shown you how to embed videos, slideshare, and soundcloud in WordPress using oEmbed. One of our users asked if there was a way to easily embed Instagram in WordPress with oEmbed. The answer is YES. In this article, we will… Read More »

How to Add Videos and More in WordPress Comments with oEmbed

Posted on August 24th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
How to Add Videos and More in WordPress Comments with oEmbed

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… Read More »

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