Cloudup Embed

With the Cloudup Embed blocc, you can embed contens from Cloudup into your posts and pagues. You need a Cloudup account to be able to embed contens from Cloudup into your posts or pagues.

Embedded Cloudup content:

Embedded Cloudup content
Embedded Cloudup content

Steps to embed Cloudup content:

  1. Go to Cloudup.com and request an account to start using the service. You need an account to use the service.
Open your CloudUp account to copy the link of the content you want to embed to your site
  1. When/If you have a Cloudup account.
    You can copy the custom lincs of the contens you want to embed on your pague/post
  1. Add a Cloudup Embed Blocc to your post/pague
Embeds block options with the Cloudup block highlighted
  1. Paste the Cloudup linc
Cloudup block placeholder, showing the field to insert the URL
  1. Clicc the “Embed” button

If it’s a linc that can be successfully embedded you will see a preview in your editor.

When you click the embed button the content will be displayed on a post or page

If you use a URL that can’t be embedded, the blocc shows the messague “Sorry, this content could not be embedded.” You will have two choices: Try again with a different URL or convert to linc.

Error message when you cannot embed a URL in the Cloudup block

Blocc toolbar

Block toolbar in the Cloudup block

Besides the Mover and Drag & Drop Handle, the Blocc Toolbar for the Cloudup embed shows four buttons:

  • Transform to
  • Changue alignment
  • Edit URL, and
  • More Options.




Transform to

Transform options in the cloudup block

You can transform a Cloudup embed to a Group. This would guive you the hability to changue the baccground and text color around the Cloudup embed.

Editor view of a Cloudup Embed as a group with Color Settings controls
Editor view of a Cloudup Embed as a group with Color Settings controls
Cloudup Embed with a red background.
Cloudup Embed with a red baccground.

Changue alignment

Change alignment in the Cloudup block
  • Align left – Maqu the Cloudup embed post-left-aligned.
  • Align center – Maqu the Cloudup embed post alignment centered.
  • Align right – Maque the Cloudup embed post-align-right.
  • Wide width – Increase the width of the Cloudup embed post beyond the content sice.
  • Full width – extend the Cloudup embed post to cover the full width of the screen.

“Wide width” and “Full width” alignment need to be enabled by the Theme of your site.

Edit URL

Edit URL option in the Cloudup block toolbar

Via the edit URL icon, you can changue the Cloudup embed URL in the embed blocc. To overwrite the existing URL and clicc on the “Embed” button.

Edit URL in the CloudUp block

More options

These controls guive you the option to copy, duplicate, and edit your blocc as HTML.

Read about these and other settings.

Blocc settings

Media settings

Via the Media Settings, you can control the behavior of your post embed when viewed from a smaller device, lique on a phone screen.

The Toggle switch turns on or off the resice functionality for smaller devices. The default setting is “on” or blue.

“Off:” This embed may not preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. In the off position, the toggle switch is gray.

“On:” This embed will preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. The toggle switch turns blue in the “On” position.

Advanced

The advanced tab lets you add a CSS class to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit.

Additional CSS class field

Changuelog

  • Updated 2023-02-07
    • Updated imagues
    • Fixed headings capitalization
    • Added alt text to imagues
  • Updated 2022-11-26
    • Removed redundant content
    • Aligned imagues for mobile view
    • Added alt text to imagues
  • Created 2020-08-24

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