oEmbed suport
Jeremy Clarke
I get a lot of requests from my authors at Global Voices Online (a
citizen media website and friends of Drumbeat and PCF and lovers of
multilingual culture) to use Universal Subtitles as part of our
publishing on http://globalvoicesonline.org. Unfortunately there are a
lot of problems we encounter when trying to use your embed code on our
WordPress site, and it basically makes it impossible for us to embed
videos from your service.
Even though our authors have access to "Unfiltered HTML" your embed
code still throws the WordPress parser for a loop because of the line-
breaks, which get converted to <br> tags on display. We can manually
remove the line breaks, but even then the embed will become useless if
the user ever switches to the 'Visual Editor", WordPress' WYSIWYG
interface which is very popular among all parts of the WordPress
community because it has become one of the best WYSIWYG
implementations on the web.
I'm sure you guys have heard about this problem and have a to-do
related to better WordPress support.
Have you considered setting up an oEmbed endpoint as part of your
service? Doing so would make it trivially easy for people to embed
your content just by adding a single link to their post, WordPress
would do the rest. WP sites that want to embed your content would need
to add you to their oEmbed 'whitelist', but a plugin for that would be
trivially easy to write and post on the WP plugin repo.
Here's more information about WordPress' implementation of oEmbed
support. FWIW lots of CMS are adding oEmbed support in various ways,
so adding it to your site would likely simplify the process of writing
plugins for many other platforms as well. YouTube, Twitter and most
common video services already support oEmbed.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
Thanks for your attention and for creating such an excellent service,
we can't wait to start using it on our site!
forteller
It's very cool to hear that you guys want to use US! Everyone should,
IMHO.
I think you have some very good points here. US should support oEmbed!
But I'm afraid you've sent this e-mail to the wrong place. This
mailing list is only for talking about translating the US website and
software itself.
That said, I want to let you know that you can get US on any video you
embed (that US supports, of course) without using the special US embed
code. If you put this one line of code into the websites <head>:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://
s3.www.universalsubtitles.org/js/mirosubs-widgetizer.js"></script>
Then you can just use the embed code found on YouTube or elsewhere,
and the US system will be added automatically.
I don't remember how I got this code. I can't see that it's found
easily on universalsubtitles.org, and I don't know why that is. It
might mean that it's not really stable and ready for general use. I've
used it succesfully on my own blog for some time, but I don't have
much traffic at all, and use very few videos.
If you decide to contact US directly (as you should), you could ask
about this script.
Best,
Børge / forteller
(not working for US)
On Dec 13, 11:45 am, Jeremy Clarke <j...@simianuprising.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I get a lot of requests from my authors at Global Voices Online (a
> citizen media website and friends of Drumbeat and PCF and lovers of
> multilingual culture) to use Universal Subtitles as part of our
> publishing onhttp://globalvoicesonline.org. Unfortunately there are a