[wp-edu] Embedded HTML, etc. in Multisite

[Daniel Bachhuber]

Hi all,

A safer way of allowing specific services to be embedded is to write a
shortcode for each:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

If it seems daunting, shortcodes are actually a good way to get into PHP.
Happy to answer questions or provide feedback on code off list.

Cheers,

Daniel


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Lucas Waltzer <
Lucas.Waltzer at baruch.cuny.edu> wrote:

>  I'd recommend this as well,
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extend-kses/, with all the
> appropriate beware what'sactivated/who can embed caveats...
>
>  Luke Waltzer
> Blogs at Baruch
>
>
> On May 10, 2013, at 2:37 PM, "Ronnie Burt" <burtrw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi Juliana,
>
>  We run http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unfiltered-mu/ without any
> issues on our Multisite networks.
>
>  It hasn't been updated in a while, but Automattic is a co-author (and
> the other two authors are well known too) and it works great for us.
>
>  You should be able to trust allowing embedding on your networks as long
> as you know all users that can add/edit posts are part of your college
> community - which most likely is true. Meaning you most likely don't have
> open blog registration to anyone in the world to be able to create blogs.
>
>  Hope this helps!
>
>   Thanks!
>
>  Ronnie Burt
> Director of Operations
> Edublogs | Incsub
>
>  Timezone: Austin, TX (UTC/GMT -6 hours)
> Twitter: @ronnieburt
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Juliana Perry <jperry02 at brynmawr.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>> Have other Multisite administrators encountered the problem of users
>> trying to embed content like Twitter widgets in their blogs, and not being
>> able to because of the (understandable) restrictions WordPress places on
>> embedded code (for any user who isn't a Network Admin)? What kinds of
>> strategies do you have for dealing with this?
>>
>>  Obviously, oEmbed meets most of our users' embedding needs just fine
>> (though some indication that they need to use a URL rather than embed code
>> would be helpful-- is anyone providing instructions or feedback within WP
>> for this?).
>>
>>  But we're looking for lightweight, sustainable ways to solve the
>> Twitter widget problem since a lot of our users want these, and it's hardly
>> user-friendly for us to tell them they have to ask a Network Admin to embed
>> the widget for them, and then they can never open or edit that widget again
>> or WordPress will strip the <script> tags and replace their tweets with a
>> broken pile of Javascript.
>>
>>  Right now we're looking at plugins specifically for Twitter (using a
>> shortcode), but I'm interested in ideas that might work for the few other
>> things not supported by oEmbed (plus I hate to add a plugin *just* for
>> Twitter...). Has anyone else dealt with this?
>>
>>  Thank you,
>> Juliana Perry
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Juliana Perry
>> Web Services Project Manager
>> Bryn Mawr College
>> 610-526-7554
>>
>>
>>
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