[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider
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#21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider
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Reporter: bradparbs | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Embeds | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: has-patch 2nd-opinion |
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Comment (by markjaquith):
Replying to [comment:2 scribu]:
> The thing is that there are quite a few generic image hosting providers,
like imageshack, photobucket etc.
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> We should have a "canonical" plugin that adds support for all these
addition oEmbed providers, instead of adding them to Core.
Adding providers is really low cost for us. Knowing that they need a
plugin, tracking that plugin down, and installing it, is a big hurdle for
users. These "magic" embeds will work better the more that people can rely
on popular embed providers to be supported without any effort on their
part. I think our hurdle should be the popularity and stability of the
embed provider. Imgur has been around for a while, and serves multiple
petabytes a month — I think they fit the bill. And FWIW, I'd be happy to
add ImageShack and Photobucket too.
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21632#comment:3>
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