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[Resolved] How do you disable embeds in private messages?

tweakben
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@tweakben

10 years, 6 months ago

Howdy! On my site my users send video URL’s back and forth to each other. Right now, BuddyPress is automatically embedding the code so the video displays in the message. I dont want this. I want just the text to be inputted, not a video embed.

Is there a filter to do this or a line of code to delete?

Thanks so much!

Ben

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tweakben
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@tweakben

10 years, 6 months ago

Bump!

Giacomo
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@gcmo

10 years, 6 months ago

Hey Ben

Auto embeds are a WordPress feature: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/embeds/

You can disable them site-wide with a filter: http://wpengineer.com/2487/disable-oembed-wordpress/

Good luck!
Giacomo

tweakben
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@tweakben

10 years, 6 months ago

Hi Giacomo!

I added the following line to my themes functions.php:

/* Stop WordPress from auto embeds */
remove_filter( ‘the_content’, array( $GLOBALS[‘wp_embed’], ‘autoembed’ ), 8 );

…and then composed a new Buddypress Private Message with http://www.mysite.com/blah.mp4 as the text.

Now it shows [video src="http://www.mysite.com/blah.mp4" /]

instead of the actual text. It’s still trying to wrap it, but at least not autoplay now.

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