Author Archives: Mike Walker

Time for a new version of the Embedder plugin before the winter holiday season kicks into high gear! Version 1.3 is probably the most significant release yet, for two reasons: The Manage Embeds administration page has been almost completely “ajaxified”, … Continue reading →

With Thanksgiving and piles of turkey safely tucked away, time for a new version of Embedder. This update was prompted by the fact that someone noticed that Unicode characters (i.e. for languages like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic) were not … Continue reading →

Today we’re going to look at a couple of ways to create embeds for YouTube videos, demonstrating the flexibility of the Embedder plugin. First we need to go and grab some embed code from YouTube. Any video will do, though … Continue reading →

Oops indeed. I just happened to stumble across a careless bug in the Embedder code which meant that you could lose an attribute settings every time you disabled then enabled an embed. It was an easy fix, so I thought … Continue reading →

Well, it wasn’t my intention to put out another version of the Embedder plugin so soon after the last one, but I discovered that the tag the plugin places in front of all the exports (embed) clashes with the built-it … Continue reading →

I have just finished uploading a brand-spanking new version of the Embedder Plugin—version 1.0. Given the major new functions added to the plugin this time around—embed groups and the ability to export and import your embeds—I thought it was a … Continue reading →

As you can see from the demo widget to the right, with this new version of the Embedder plugin, you can now use embeds in widgets too (including their titles!). Simply create a global embed as usual, then use it … Continue reading →

I’ve been following the Embedder Plugin stats page on WordPress.org with some amusement over the last few days. Not because of the number of daily downloads, which is typical of a new plugin, but because of the statistics for the … Continue reading →

I have just posted a new version of the Embedder Plugin. This time, it’s to add support for embeds in post/page titles and comments. Any local or global embed can be used in a title automatically (obviously local embeds only … Continue reading →