Author Archives: Mike Walker

Embedder version 1.3 Released – Major Upgrades Ahoy!

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

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Embedder version 1.2 Published

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

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Stupid Embedder Tricks #2 : YouTube Video Embeds

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

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(Oops) Embedder version 1.1.1 Released

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

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Embedder version 1.1 Released

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

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Embedder Plugin v1.0 Posted – Groups and Import/Export

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

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Stupid Embedder Tricks #1 – Custom Post Logos

You may have noticed the Embedder logo showing up all over the place on the blog. I used to do this for another plugin I wrote many moons ago—but to do it, I would have to cut and paste the … Continue reading

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Embeds Everywhere! Embedder Plugin v0.5 Posted

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

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Hyper-Active Versions

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

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Embedder Plugin v0.4 Posted

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

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