oEmbed Update: September 28th

As of today, the current version of the oEmbed feature plugin is 0.9.0. These are the biggest changes since last week:

  • There is now an is_embed conditional tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) to more easily target embedded posts.
  • New: Support for embedding video and audio attachments.
  • You can now copy the whole embed code and not only the post’s URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in the sharing dialog.
  • There were major JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. improvements. It is more robust and also a bit faster too.
  • We now show a read more link instead of the word count in the excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox..
  • Improved input sanitization.

These were all areas discussed in last week’s chat and I’m happy with what we achieved. The pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party has been installed on WordPress.com, although it has been temporarily deactivated 🙁. Nonetheless I’m looking forward to publishing another post regarding the plugin tomorrow…

There are only some smaller issues left, so now is a great time to test and review the plugin! Our weekly chat is today (September 28 2015 9pm UTC) in the #feature-oembed SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel

Note: We received some feedback regarding weird link previews in Slack for WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ links. This is a Slack bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. and not our fault. We already reached out to them and hope it gets fixed soon.

As always, the latest version of the plugin is available on the plugin repository. Errors and suggestions can be either reported on GitHub or our #feature-oembed Slack channel.

Next chat: October 5 2015 9pm UTC

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