WordPress 2.9 has sweet new features, but my favorite addition is oEmbed. For a wordpress author the oEmbed feature lets you simply paste a media link into your post and presto, the media will automatically embed itself. This feature is enabled by default in WordPress 2.9 and works with Vimeo, Youtube, flickr, and a host of other sites which are listed in the documentation.
The Gotcha!
If you copy your link into the visual editor, the editor my may surround it with the HTML tags, and the oEmbed tag may not work as expected.
The easy solution is to paste your link into the HTML view, and to double check that your oEmbed link is:
- On its own line in the HTML Source
- Is not surrounded by tags which may interfere with oEmbed
If all else fails, try surrounding the link with the short code.
