satisation, filters and caching
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I love this plugin, its works perfectly. But it has three flaws.
The first is that it does not seem to santise all the external data returned. Eg get_description should alwasy be a plain text string so you should probably run it through something like sanitize_text_field. Similarly for get_thumbnail etc.
The second is someth sort of caching mechanism. This is absoluely vital as the plugin should not be refetching the foreign content each time. Nte I could be wronf on this as I have not devled through the whole code. the logical approach here would be to cache the templated data in post meta in a similar way to existing oemebed handler eg eg _embed_extended_url_hash
The third thing it needs are some filters to values returned by the functions that return the data from the html strings (eg a filter on the url returned by get_thumbnail for instance). This is not vital at all but would be really nice to have.
Thankyou again for this plugin though, it is magnificent but it does need a couple of things to make it perfect.
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