After further investigation this appears to be Vimeo blocking the requests. We have two sites (one where Vimeo videos work and one where they don’t). When testing the retrieval of content via PHP we get “HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden” on the faulty site. Anyone else reading this thread can run the same test … Read more
This is overview how you can make it working: First with below code you can detect youtube URL for details Please read: $reg = preg_match(‘|^\s*(https?://[^\s”]+)\s*$|im’, $post_id_63->post_content, $matches); if (!$reg) return false; $url = trim($matches[0]); // youtube video url echo wp_oembed_get($url); // this will return youtube vidoe For details please read: Wp_oembed_get we need to use … Read more
Take out the var_dump. That is debugging code, it’s dumping the variable so that you can see what it is. Edit: Okay, I think you’re asking the wrong question here, as did the other person in the question that you linked to. Adding additional query args onto the URL being sent to wp_ombed_url() won’t cause … Read more
Indeed, the “Insert video” action does not do much beyond creating a link. WordPress does not contain a generic player that can play any video hosted anywhere on the internet, but it does support something better: embedding via oEmbed. This means you can put the URL of the video page in your content, and it … Read more
I just finished a Wordperss site that had a similar need for playing video. I would recommend going the Youtube route. Youtube will handle hosting, file conversions and with iframe embedding you can be sure the most devices possible will see your videos. On the WordPress side of the equation, there are many helpful plugins … Read more
You can use the oEmbed functionality baked into WordPress. Typically any video host on this list will return a thumbnail to you using oembed. Here is a list of default providers that WordPress uses for auto embedding in the content area. I’ve included non-video sources as well for the convenience of others. http://www.youtube.com/oembed http://blip.tv/oembed/ http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.xml … Read more