WordPress oEmbeds were first introduced in version 2.9. Up until now, there were only about 25 oEmbed providers that WordPress allowed you to embed content from.
With the release of WordPress 4.4, you can now embed content from anyone who supports the official oEmbed protocol (and meets certain security requirements). This includes the option to now embed content from other WordPress sites. This also means that once you upgrade to WordPress 4.4, your content can be embedded as well.
There are two main ways to use a WordPress oEmbed on your site. Let’s discuss each method as I point out the slight differences.
WordPress oEmbed How-To Guide
01Paste Link Directly Into Editor
For about 95% of our readers, this will work just fine, and it’s the quickest way to embed content on your WordPress site.
- Make sure you are in Visual mode in the content editor
- Move your cursor to a new line
- Paste a URL from any site that supports oEmbed
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/{username}/status/123456789
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/{username}/posts/123456789
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVSTcHV4go
- etc…
02Insert Media Button
For slightly more control, you can use the Add Media button. Clicking this button will open the standard Media modal window.
- Place your cursor on a new line
- Choose “Insert from URL”
- Paste the URL of the content you want to embed
- A preview will be displayed below
- Click the Insert into post button
The embed Shortcode
When you embed content using the Add Media button, it utilizes the embed shortcode. The benefit of this shortcode is that it contains two parameters that allow you to set a maximum width & height on your embed. (remove the spaces on the inside of each [ and ] bracket)
[ embed width="1000" height="500" ]http://yoururlhere.com/...[ /embed ]You will have to switch over to Text mode in the editor to add these parameters.
Alternatively, you could manually type this code into your content editor, instead of using the Add Media button. Either way will allow you to use the width and height parameters.
Learn more about WordPress shortcodes »
WordPress oEmbed Providers
For security reasons, WordPress maintains an internal whitelist of which sites they allow content to be embedded from. As of WordPress 4.9, here is a list of sites that you can embed content from.
WordPress 4.9 added support for Amazon Kindle Instant Previews & Someecards.com.
| Service | Content Type |
|---|---|
| Amazon Kindle | Instant Previews |
| Animoto | videos |
| Blip (discontinued in 2015) | videos |
| Cloudup | videos, galleries, images |
| CollegeHumor | videos |
| Dailymotion | videos |
| post, activity, photo, video, media, question, note | |
| Flickr | videos, images |
| Funny Or Die | videos |
| Hulu | videos |
| Imgur | images |
| images | |
| Issuu | documents |
| Kickstarter | projects |
| Meetup | various types |
| Mixcloud | music |
| Photobucket | images |
| PollDaddy | polls, surveys |
| posts, comments | |
| ReverbNation | music |
| Screencast.com | videos |
| Scribd | documents |
| SlideShare | presentations |
| SmugMug | various types |
| Someecards.com | ecards |
| SoundCloud | music |
| Speaker Deck | presentations |
| Spotify | music |
| TED | videos |
| Tumblr | various |
| tweet, profile, list, collection, like, moment | |
| VideoPress | videos |
| Vimeo | videos |
| Vine (discontinued in 2017) | videos |
| WordPress plugins | plugins |
| WordPress.tv | videos |
| YouTube | videos, playlists |
Disabling Embeds of Your Content
If your site is running WordPress 4.4 or higher, your own content will be embeddable by other sites. If you’d like to stop other sites from embedding your content, install & activate the Disable Embeds plugin.
Additional Reading for WordPress Embeds
Here are some additional resources & tutorials on how to embed specific types of content in the WordPress editor.
- How to embed a YouTube video
- How to embed a YouTube playlist
- How to embed a Tweet in your WordPress sidebar
- How to embed a Facebook post in your WordPress sidebar
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