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The easiest way to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and more on your BuddyPress network.
oEmbed for BuddyPress utilizes WordPress’ own oEmbed class, so by default, you can share content from the following sites:
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Blip.tv</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>DailyMotion</li>
<li>Flickr</li>
<li>Hulu</li>
<li>Viddler</li>
<li>Qik</li>
<li>Revision3</li>
<li>Photobucket</li>
<li>Scribd</li>
<li>WordPress.tv</li>
</ul>
How do you use the plugin? Simple! Input any URL from one of the listed sites above into an activity update or forum post in BuddyPress.
When the update is posted, the URL automagically transforms into the embedded content.
<h3>Technical info</h3>
Because oEmbed for BuddyPress checks each link to see if it is oEmbeddable, for performance reasons, each link is cached in the database to reduce redundant oEmbed requests.
The cached entry is either the embed code (if the link is oEmbeddable) or the failed link.
Whitelist feature
By default, the plugin whitelists hyperlinks and URLs residing on the same domain as BuddyPress.
The cool thing is you can extend the whitelist.
For example, in an activity update, say you type in “http://www.google.com”, the plugin will cache that link in the database. Say you wanted to omit Google.com links from being cached.
Open <code>bp-oembed-config.php</code> in a text editor and add the following line to the end:
<pre><code>$bp_oembed['whitelist'][] = 'google.com';
</code></pre>
This will whitelist all links from google.com.
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>
array_map() warning is displayed – this is a BuddyPress issue, which is fixed in the latest bleeding version of BuddyPress (https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/2747)
</li>
<li>
When a forum post is deleted, the oEmbed forum post cache in bbPress isn’t deleted (<a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/does-deleting-a-forum-post-delete-the-related-bb_meta-as-well" rel="nofollow ugc">appears to be a bbPress issue</a>)
</li>
<li>
Hyperlinks with single quotes get mangled (if you’re a regex expert, I could use your help!)
</li>
</ul>
eg. <code><a href='http://buddypress.org'>BuddyPress</a></code>
<ul>
<li>Hyperlinking an oEmbeddable link and inputting the same link in plain text will show the oEmbeddable item three times (two times if using anchor text) (not many people will do this)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Future versions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Implement AutoEmbed.com API fallback if oEmbed fails (will be an option)</li>
<li>Fix known issues 😉</li>
</ul>
<h3>Special thanks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viper007Bond</a> – for creating the WP_oEmbed class</li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress.org</a> – the reason why we can all deploy a social network on WordPress</li>
</ul>
<h3>Donate!</h3>
I’m a regular on the buddypress.org forums. I spend a lot of my free time helping people – pro bono!
There are a couple of ways you can choose to support me:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KU38JAZ2DW8TW" rel="nofollow ugc">Fund my work soundtrack!</a> Music helps me help you! A dollar lets me buy a new tune off Amazon MP3, Amie Street or emusic.com! Or if you’re feeling generous, you can help me buy a whole CD! If you choose to donate, let me know what songs or which CD you want me to listen to! 🙂</li>
<li>Rate this plugin</li>
<li>Spread the gospel of BuddyPress</li>
</ul>

oEmbed for BuddyPress

The easiest way to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and more on your BuddyPress network.

Embedly

Enhance the default WordPress embedding to get previews for any article, 
including your own blog posts. You also get embeds for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, 
Google Maps, and Embedly’s growing list of <a href="https://embed.ly/providers" rel="nofollow ugc">1000+ supported 
providers</a>.
You can customize the style of the embeds, to optimize for darker WP themes, 
alignment, and width. In addition, social buttons can be added around the embeds 
to make it easier to share content from your blog posts.
If you have an Embedly Cards account, you can link it to the plugin with your Embedly API key. Not only does this remove branding from the cards, it also gives you access to analytics and viewer behaviors for most popular music and video player embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, SoundCloud). Find out how many people viewed your embeds for how long. To learn more about Embedly Cards please visit <a href="https://embed.ly/cards" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a>.
Using it is as simple as the default WordPress embedding. Embed media by pasting its URL in a single line when writing a post.
The plugin automatically displays an embed of the media in the WordPress post editor.
Fair Warning: This plugin generates static HTML content for your posts. After you deactivate 
the plugin, that HTML will still remain behind in all posts where the plugin was used to create 
embeds.

The Embedly Plugin extends WordPress's auto-embed feature to give your blog more media types and style options.

oEmbed for BuddyPress vs Embedly