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WordPress 2.9 oEmbed – Gotcha

viller — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:12:10 +0000

WordPress 2.9 has sweet new features, but my favorite addition is oEmbed. For a wordpress author the oEmbed feature lets you simply paste a media link into your post and presto, the media will automatically embed itself. This feature is enabled by default in WordPress 2.9 and works with Vimeo, Youtube, flickr, and a host of other sites which are listed in the documentation.

The Gotcha!

If you copy your link into the visual editor, the editor my may surround it with the HTML tags, and the oEmbed tag may not work as expected.

The easy solution is to paste your link into the HTML view, and to double check that your oEmbed link is:

On its own line in the HTML Source
Is not surrounded by tags which may interfere with oEmbed

If all else fails, try surrounding the link with the short code.

wordpress theme & stellar background from boedesign

viller — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:56:17 +0000

I finally got around to updating deleted theory’s wordpress theme. All in all it was straight forward, even for a programmer like me. A super special thanks goes out to my work neighbor Jordan Boesch of 76design, taxime.ca & boedesign.com fame for my stellar new background! Thanks Jordan!

WordPress 2.7

viller — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:20:01 +0000

Installed and ready to go. I really like the new interface as everything seems a little simpler and cleaner. The summary views for the statistics are nice, and I am making use of the QuickPress feature, which surprisingly lets you publish a post quickly from the dashboard.

Nice improvements so far, I am looking forward to diving a little deeper.

Hello WordPress, my name is Rob.

viller — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:45:19 +0000

Just upgraded my blog from SubText to WordPress 2.5. So far I am impressed. Good thing because I will be working with WordPress at 76design and it would not be cool if I hated it already.