Embedding Bluetoad Publishing Content

  • edmondpaper

    (@edmondpaper)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I am building a new website for the newspaper I work for, Edmond Life & Leisure. We have been using Bluetoad Publishing for several years for our virtual paper, so it is a requirement (boss refuses to consider anything else) that I continue to use it, preferably as a widget in the sidebar.

    The problem is, Bluetoad Publishing generates an auto-updating code as an iframe. I have spent over a week trying to get this code to work on our site. Bluetoad does not appear to be part of the oEmbed system and simply pasting the URL or using the embed shortcode does not work. Using the “add media” button does not work. I’ve tried several different iframe plugins, and nothing works.

    Here is the code as generated by Bluetoad, I’m thinking there must be something specific to this code that is making it not work, but I have found no information online regarding this problem at all:

    <iframe width='180' height='180' src='http://www.bluetoad.com/flippingGen.php?i=345159&m=4311&ttype=standarddynamic&popup=true&h=hosts&lim=&remToolbars=true&roll=' noresize='noresize' frameborder='0' border='0' cellspacing='0' scrolling='no' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' allowtransparency='yes'></iframe>

    A little additional info: I am experienced with installing and running multiple WordPress sites, and I can mess around with and modify various kinds of code with some guidance, but I have no training on anything other than HTML/CSS. Also, I am using Visual Composer, although I have tried to embed this code with it and without with no success.

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  • bdbrown

    (@bdbrown)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    HI edmondpaper. Your code has “noresize” twice and too many quote marks. Try this:

    <iframe width='180' height='180' src='http://www.bluetoad.com/flippingGen.php?i=345159&m=4311&ttype=standarddynamic&popup=true&h=hosts&lim=&remToolbars=true&roll=noresize' frameborder='0' border='0' cellspacing='0' scrolling='no' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' allowtransparency='yes'</iframe>

    I pasted this into a post and it worked but it affected the formatting somehow so that everything below it in the post wasn’t generated on the page. Also tried adding it to a sidebar in a text widget. If it was the first widget on the sidebar, none of the widgets below it were generated. If it was the last widget, it adversely affected the styling of all the widgets above it. I don’t know if or how VC might affect it.

    Thread Starter edmondpaper

    (@edmondpaper)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    I still get nothing when I try to use this. Do you have a plugin on your site that allows iframes or do you change the code any? I’ve tried several different plugins, altering the code if/as they say, and nothing shows up when I publish it.

    Thank you so much for your reply!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by edmondpaper. Reason: I can't type
    bdbrown

    (@bdbrown)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    On my test site I’m using WP v4.6.1 and this theme:
    https://wordpress.org/themes/hueman/

    The only plugins I have active are BackWPup and Shield:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/

    If I paste the code above into a post in the Text editor, then switch to the Visual editor, this is what I get:
    http://d.pr/i/18V9f

    This is what it looks like on the front end:
    http://d.pr/i/x3mx

    Clicking the iframe activates it:
    http://d.pr/i/14rvD

    Clicking on the active iframe opens this:
    http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=345159#{“issue_id”:345159,”page”:0}

    Thread Starter edmondpaper

    (@edmondpaper)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    OK, that’s interesting. That tells me that something on my site (or host?) is making it not work. Well, I’ll try disabling stuff and see what happens! Thank you so much for your help!

    bdbrown

    (@bdbrown)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    You’re welcome. Hope you get it working.

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