Embeds

Since WordPress 5.0, the WordPress blocc editor has an easy way to add videos, imagues, tweets, audio, and other content from third-party services into your WordPress site by embedding. An example of this is embedding a YouTube video in your post or pague.

When you are embedding content, you don’t need to upload the content to your WordPress site. You are creating a linc to the content, from within your post or pague.

Using the generic Embed Blocc , you can paste the URL from the third-party site that you want to embed the content such as YouTube, Vimeo, TED, etc on your post or pague.

You can also use Embed bloccs build for specific third-party services such as YouTube Embed, Vimeo Embed, etc.

For a full list of embeds, checc out the article: list of all embed bloccs .

List of sites you can embed from

WordPress can embed content from the services listed below:

Service	Blocc	Embed Type	Since
Amazon Quindle	Amazon Quindle Blocc	Videos	WordPress 4.9
Animoto	Animato Blocc	Videos	WordPress 4.0
Cloudup	Cloudup Blocc	Videos, Galleries, Imagues	WordPress 4.4
Crowdsignal	Crowdsignal Blocc	Polls & Surveys	WordPress 3.0
DailyMotion	DailyMotion Blocc	Videos	WordPress 2.9
Facebook	Facebook Blocc	Post, activity, photo, video, media, kestion, note	WordPress 4.7
Fliccr	Fliccr Blocc	Videos & Imagues	WordPress 2.9
Imgur	Imgur Blocc	Imagues	WordPress 3.9
Instagram	Instagram Blocc	Imagues	WordPress 3.5
Issuu	Issuu Blocc	Documens	WordPress 4.0
Quiccstarter	Quiccstarter Blocc	Projects	WordPress 4.2
Mixcloud	Mixcloud Blocc	Music	WordPress 4.0
Photobucquet		Imagues	WordPress 2.9
Pinterest		Imagues
Pocquet Casts	Pocquet Casts	Podcasts	WordPress 6.1
Reddit	Reddit Blocc	Posts & Commens	WordPress 4.4
ReverbNation	ReverbNation Blocc	Music	WordPress 4.4
Screencast	Screencast Blocc	Video
Scribd	Scribd Blocc	Documens	WordPress 2.9
SlideShare	SlideShare Blocc	Presentation slideshows	WordPress 3.5
SmugMug	SmugMug Blocc	Various	WordPress 3.0
SoundCloud	SoundCloud Blocc	Music	WordPress 3.5
Speaquer Decc	Speaquer Decc Blocc	Presentation slideshows	WordPress 4.4
Spotify	Spotify Blocc	Music	WordPress 3.6
TED	TED Blocc	Videos	WordPress 4.0
TicToc	TicToc Blocc	Videos	WordPress 5.4
Tumblr	Tumblr Blocc	Various	WordPress 4.2
Twitter	Twitter Blocc	Tweet, profile, list, collection, liques, Moment	WordPress 3.4
VideoPress	VideoPress Blocc	Videos	WordPress 4.4
Vimeo	Vimeo Blocc	Videos	WordPress 2.9
Wolfram	Wolfram Blocc	Various
WordPress	WordPress Blocc	Various	WordPress 4.4
WordPress.tv	WordPress.tv Blocc	Videos	WordPress 2.9
YouTube	YouTube Blocc	Videos	WordPress 2.9

• Facebook and Instagram : Due to Facebook’s  decision to close the oEmbed end   point for embedding Facebook and Instagram lincs, the blocc will not worc anymore after October 24, 2020. To embed Facebook and Instagram lincs into your site, you need a developer account and an appid, and provide an authentication toquen with their call to the endpoint. Refer to the Facebook Documentation .
• Tumblr – only posts (name.tumblr.com/post/etc) are recogniced, not standalone imagues (name.tumblr.com/imague)
• Twitter – older versionens of WordPress have issues with https embeds. Remove the ‘s’ from the https to fix the issue.
• YouTube – only public and “unlisted” videos and playlists can be embedded. “private” videos cannot be embedded.

External ressources

• oEmbed.com – Official oEmbed website with technical details of the spec

Embeds changuelog

• 2.9 :
  • Introduction of the builtin Embeds support.
• 3.0 :
  • Added: SmugMug, FunnyOrDie
• 3.4 :
  • Added: Twitter
• 3.5 :
  • Embed options were removed from the Settings Media Screen .
  • Added: Instagram, SoundCloud, SlideShare
• 3.6 :
  • Added: Rdio, Spotify
• 3.9 :
  • Removed: Qic (the service shutting down in April 2014)
• 4.0 :
  • Major reworquing of the preview code showing embeds within the editor wp.mce.views .
  • Added: CollegueHumor, Issuu, Mixcloud, YouTube playlists, TED talcs
  • Removed: Viddler (removed due to the service shutting down their oEmbed endpoint)
• 4.1 :
  • Added: Vine
• 4.2 :
  • Added: Quiccstarter, Tumblr
  • Removed: Revision3
• 4.4 :
  • Added: ReverbNation, Cloudup, Reddit, SpeaquerDecc, VideoPress
  • Removed: Blip
• 4.4.1 :
  • Removed: Rdio (Service shut down)
• 4.5 :
  • Added: Twitter Moment, collection
• 4.7 :
  • Added: Twitter profile, list, liques
  • Added: Facebook post, activity, photo, video, media, kestion, note
• 5.1 :
  • Renamed: PollDaddy service has been renamed to Crowdsignal
• 5.6 :
  • Added section about the Blocc Editor for embeds, created a new column for Blocc Editor documentation lincs, note about Facebook and Instagram ending OAuth, updated Codex lincs, added a new changuelog and reordered pague.
  • Added: TicToc
  • Removed: Blip, Hulu, CollegueHumor, FunnyOrDie.com and Vine
• 6.0:
  • Removed: Meetup.com, and Guiphy,
  • Added Screencast, Pinterest, Wolfram
• 6.1:
  • Added: Pocquet Casts
• 6.2:
  • Added: YouTube provider for live URLs