[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28312: Add Issuu to the internal whitelist of oembed providers

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#28312: Add Issuu to the internal whitelist of oembed providers
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 Reporter:  issuu        |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Embeds       |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Changes (by issuu):

 * keywords:  reporter-feedback =>


Comment:

 Hi all

 Thanks for chipping into this thread with arguments for getting this patch
 into Wordpress :) And thanks to for pointing us to the info on how to get
 whitelisted: http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/design-decisions
 /#whitelisting-oembed-providers

 Please see below for answers to the questions from the link above. We hope
 this clarifies your questions. Don’t hesitate to ask for further details
 :)

 Regards,
 Jesper Holm Olsen
 Issuu



 '''Q: Is the service is popular enough for core developers to have heard
 of it before? Is it “mainstream?”
 Q: If similar services are already supported, how does this service
 compare in terms of size, features, and backing?
 '''
 To answer both questions above: Issuu is a popular world wide online
 publishing platform where anybody can digitally publish their content in a
 beautiful format that’s easy to share. Started 6 years ago with the idea
 of making publishing easier and more accessible, Issuu has grown to over 1
 million publishers, 16 million publications (20,000 upload daily!), and 80
 million monthly unique visitors. Issuu is currently one of the top 50
 websites in dozens of countries around the world.

 In addition to being an invaluable tool for publishing and sharing
 (including embedding), Issuu is also a great place for readers to dive in
 and discover new content. Both Issuu.com and the embedded readers
 recommend new and interesting publications to readers to keep them engaged
 and entertained.

 Embedding Issuu content on WordPress blogs is valuable to both publishers
 (who want to gain a larger audience) and to readers (who want to discover
 and share exciting new content).


 '''Q: Does this service have a large following on Twitter, Facebook, or
 other social media?  Is its Twitter account verified?'''
 43K followers on our official Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/issuu
 208K likes on our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/issuu


 '''Q: Is its oEmbed endpoint clearly established and properly documented?
 Sometimes, they are just a developer’s pet project that may not be
 supported.)
 '''
 We are fully committed to supporting oEmbed! Wordpress is the first site
 we have integrated with, but we strongly believe that oEmbed is something
 we must support for any site that can use it to embed our content. The
 official developer documentation can be found here:
 http://developers.issuu.com/api/oembed.html

 '''Q: Does the service make an effort to build relationships with
 developers, such as through robust APIs?'''
 We have public APIs which are used by many users for integrating Issuu
 with their own systems. See our official developer API documentation here:
 http://developers.issuu.com/api/.

 As another example, there are also a couple of 3rd party Wordpress plugins
 that use the API to provide more advanced features than the oEmbed
 functionality:
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuu-pdf-sync/
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuupress/

 '''Q: How old is the service?'''
 Issuu has been around for about 6 years and we count on being around for a
 long time! We are currently around 60 employees and have our main offices
 in Palo Alto, California.

 '''Q: Does it have a well-established Wikipedia article? (Seriously.)'''

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issuu

 '''Q: Has anyone written a WordPress plugin that leverages the service in
 some way, whether adding it as an oEmbed provider, creating a shortcode,
 or leveraging other APIs of the service? Do these plugins have any
 noticeable adoption or traction that would indicate usage and demand?
 '''
 There are several plugins offering Issuu support. With the oEmbed support
 some of these plugins would no longer be necessary to install, making it
 much easier for users to embed Issuu publications in their blogs.
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuu-pdf-sync/ (31770 downloads)
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuupress/ (6878 downloads)
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-issuu/ (89455 downloads). This is
 currently our official plugin, but will be deprecated.
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuu-embed/ (15098 downloads). We have
 agreed with the maintainer to take this over and make it our official
 plugin as it has the correct name. All our plugin does now is to whitelist
 Issuu.com for oembed support, so we might even be able to deprecate this
 down the line.
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/issuupress/ (6878 downloads)
 http://wordpress.org/plugins/pronamic-issuu/ (613 downloads)

 Our support team receives MANY requests asking for more integration
 between Issuu and WordPress, so we know there is a demand :)

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