Embedly

Gary,

Do you remember which version of the plugin you were using when you recognized an issue two or three weeks ago? I’m trying to locally reproduce the error you’re witnessing without success. Specifically, were you using a version of the embedly plugin less than version 4.0 (there used to be a button on the editor and an entirely different settings page)?

-Chris

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your report. We recently made some changes that improve plugin security that seems to be affecting the plugin registration for some users.

Were you a user of the plugin prior to this update? If so, can you try reactivating your plugin? To do this you just go into Plugins in the admin dashboard, click deactivate, and then click activate again. Afterwards, try to connect your embedly account and see if it works at that time.

I’ve tried to replicate this error locally and can’t seem to reproduce it, so any additional information you have would be helpful (specifically wordpress version and plugin version)

Let me know if this resolves your issue.

Chris @ Embedly

Hello jerraldhayes,

Thanks for the message, hopefully we can resolve this for you. In regards to the button in the editor, we’ve removed this feature in the new version of the plugin since it was causing compatibility issues for some users, and wordpress has since added new features that allow the plugin to automatically detect and embed content with Embedly Cards.

I visited your blog yesterday and did notice the links you mention, however, checking again today I see that you have fully rendered cards. In your plugin settings do you see how many active viewers you have now?

Thanks,

Chris @ Embedly

Hi ReallyGreenJames,

I’m going to mark this as resolved, if there’s anything else we can help with let us know!

-Chris

Hi jOt,

Embedly works through the oEmbed API itself, and the wordpress plugin is using wordpress’s built in methods to grab embedded content (wp_oembed_get()).

The control of when the url is getting parsed and converted to embed, as well as what displays in the post editor is built into wordpress. The plugin simply directs requests for embedded content at embedly’s api.

I believe the oEmbed api call is happening before the post gets saved in the database, so that’s why you’ll see the html of an embed even after disabling the plugin.

If a plugin that’s authoring posts doesn’t hook into wordpress’s wp_oembed_get() api then links won’t show up as embedded, as far as I know.

In regards to the feature suggestion, I’m happy to pass it along to the relevant team members, thanks for the feedback!

Best,
Chris @ Embedly

Hi ReallyGreenJames,

Thanks for your feedback. I’m curious, did you embed the youtube video in question before changing the settings? Unfortunately, settings you change after embedding a video won’t be reflected in the post because of the way that wordpress saves the embed html in a post document. Can you try embedding the same video in a new post and see if your settings choices are reflected there?

Hi NG,

Thanks for the feedback. We pushed an update today that respects wp_enqueue. Let us know if you have any additional feedback!

-Chris