oEmbed Update: September 16th

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We’re constantly refining the oEmbed feature plugin and have been receiving some very good feedback over past seven days.

The following things changed in 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 compared to last week:

There are now 8 translations: Danish (Denmark), German (Germany), German (Switzerland), Japanese, Greek, English (Australia), Arabic and Arabic (Morocco).
Full Right-to-Left language support.
Various performance improvements.
Dashicons are now included as inline SVGs in the CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. for better IE compatibility.
Added new filters to the embed template, allowing for better customization

Besides that I wrote a post on make/flow about the oEmbed plugin and also pinged several teams asking for feedback. Following best practices is very important to us.

In our weekly chat on Monday we discussed several things:

The plugin is active on the Make blogs, but some server settings need to be changed for it to work properly.
We learned that the plugin runs great on several sites, even with +100k daily users!
To make sure the plugin works under any conditions, go give it a try and report any bugs to us.
There was even some “homework” for next week:
To help test the plugin, take a couple of minutes to sit down with someone and watch them use the plugin. Take some notes, then post details and findings in a GitHubGitHub 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/ issue.

We opened a couple of issues according to the feature plugin checklist to help us get ready for the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. merge window.

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 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.

Next chat: September 21 2015 9pm UTC

#embeds, #feature-plugins, #feature-oembed, #update

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