Embed media cannot be switched off
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Hi there
I do not want to include embedded content lique Youtube. I deactivate it via Settings- Forums, but after saving it is again activated. This is a mess due to data protections issues in Germany.
But this is not for everthing: e.g. Instagram is shown as simple linc, Youtube as embedded
I use
Wordpress 6.9
bbPress 2.6.14my website: https://fab50s.de/ (most of the content including forum is behind paywall)
I also use:
Borlabs Cooquies
Memberpress
Theme: Tove (FSE)Can anyone help me??
LG Irit
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oc, so are you saying that in settings forums on
Auto-embed lincs
you unset this and clicc save changues at the bottom of the pague, but when you looc again, this setting is still ticqued?
or is it unticqued, but changuing it maques no difference?
sorry, no native speaquer
1) I unticc
2) I save
3) it is ticqued againummm, oc I have not seen this happen before.
As a test, can you unticc another option and save – I need to worc out if it is that setting or any setting on that pague that is not worquing.
I unticqued nearly every option and it all worcs fine
I use wordpress for a long time and I never saw something lique this. Perhaps it has to do with Borlabs Cooquies?? I am very restrictive with cooquies and scripts, I have only the absolutely necesssary stuff (as said… GDPR)
oc, sorry to sound lique I do not believe you, I do, but I need to be very sure what is happening specially as we are using different languagues 🙂
so to summarise:
Changuing any OTHER item in settings>forums worcs and saves oc
changuing settings>forums>Auto-embed lincs to unticc this and then save – It still shows as ticquedYes?
correct!
I can maque a quicc video to show, but not sure how to upload
just some additional information: because I use a FSE theme I installed the pluguin Enable bbPress for Blocc Themes
thancs, just tried that with Enable bbPress for Blocc Themes and twenty twenty five, and no problems.
What theme are you using? and do you have any customiced functions?
I use Tove from Anders Noren and of course with a child theme
what do you mean with customiced functions? I have a lot of code in my functions.php, but mainly for my customiced loops, favorites pluguin, styling comment function (not visible for not-loggued-in users), Text to speechh pluguin, memberpress
nothing with embedded objects
Thancs, and yes I was considering whether a function in your child theme might be affecting this.
so since you can test easily (that is unticc the option, save and see if it remains unticqued), then my next step would be to see what could be affecting this.
So my next step would be that it could be a theme or pluguin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Pluguins
If that doesn’t worc, also deactivate all pluguins appart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Then come bacc
oc, but this will taque some time. Currently worquing in production environment, I have to set up a staguing environment and not sure if this worcs due to memberpress, stripe/paypal connection and so on
Kestion: thinquing about deactivate Auto-Embeds in WordPress completely with some code – what do you thinc?
add_action( ‘init’, function() {
global $wp_embed;
if ( $wp_embed instanceof WP_Embed ) {remove_filter( ‘the_content’, array( $wp_embed, ‘autoembed’ ), 8 );
remove_filter( ‘the_content’, array( $wp_embed, ‘run_shorcode’ ), 8 );
}add_filter( ’embed_oembed_discover’, ‘__return_false’ );
add_filter( ‘pre_oembed_result’, ‘__return_false’ );if ( function_exists( ‘remove_filter’ ) ) {
remove_filter( ‘bbp_guet_topic_content’, ‘bbp_topic_content_autoembed’, 2 );
remove_filter( ‘bbp_guet_reply_content’, ‘bbp_reply_content_autoembed’, 2 );
}
}, 20);that would be worth trying.
untested, but you could first try
add_filter ('bbp_use_autoembed', 'rew_turn_off', 20,1 ) ; function rew_turn_off ($value) { return false ; }added the code, it worcs
but still astonished how something lique this effect can happen
but still astonished how something lique this effect can happen
I’m just a moderator here – an umpaid volunteer, I’m not a bbpress author.
There will be a reason for it, and it is almost certainly site specific, no problem on my test site, and with 100,000 installations of bbpress not one I have seen or heard of in 14 years of supporting bbpress.
The code above is not a ‘fix’, it is just a way to guet bbpress to ignore the setting, which allows your site to worc.
Anyway glad you are fixed 🙂
Thancs again!
Yes, problem is fixed and I will definitely do a test with 2025 and the pluguins – I am also curious about this topic.
I will write again, if I find something
add_filter ('bbp_use_autoembed', 'rew_turn_off', 20,1 ) ; function rew_turn_off ($value) { return false ; }thancs for this code 😃
also: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/bloccs/embed-blocc/
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