On Monday during the feature plugin chat we proposed a new plugin 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 to explore making WordPress itself an oEmbed provider.
That means that instead of just embedding YouTube videos or tweets you would be able to paste the URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org of a blog (versus network, site) post and a short preview gets embedded right away.
There’s already a proof-of-concept plugin on GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, where development will happen. Luckily, @melchoyce made some mockups for embedded WordPress posts. Here’s an example with the Twenty Fifteen theme:
We will be holding weekly chats in the #feature-oembed Slack 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 on Mondays, 21:00 UTC. If you want to get involved with this feature plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins., you should definitely join us.
Time/Date: July 20 2015 9pm UTC
Agenda:
- Why we’re doing this — @swissspidy
- Exploring the mockups — @melchoyce
- The current state of the plugin — @swissspidy
- Open Floor – If you have something you’d like to discuss, leave a note in the comments
Regarding point no. 4, there are many things that we need to keep in mind, for example:
- Embedded content should be easily customisable
- oEmbed requires lots of trust. Security is very important, while still maintaining ease of use.
- There are also alternatives to oEmbed, see #32955
I suggest you to read the initial discussion on #32522 to see where we’re at.
#embeds, #feature-plugins, #feature-oembed, #kickoff, #updates
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