As of April 2026, oEmbed for Comments is a WordPress embed plugin with 50 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
5/51 reviews
50active installs
5.5K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
It’s the same oEmbed functionality you know and love from your WP 2.9 post editor, now enabled for comments!
Your comments can now embed content from the following sites:
- YouTube
- Blip.tv
- Vimeo
- DailyMotion
- Flickr
- Hulu
- Viddler
- Qik
- Revision3
- Photobucket
- Scribd
- WordPress.tv
How do you use the plugin? Simple! Input any URL from one of the listed sites above into a comment.
When the comment is posted and approved, the URL automagically transforms into the embedded content.
Blacklist feature
This feature allows you to blacklist websites from being processed by oEmbed.
For example, say I wanted to block YouTube links from being embedded.
Open oembed-config.php in a text editor and add the following line to the end:
$oembed_comments['blacklist'][] = 'youtube.com';
This will blacklist al…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.6
- First version!
- Basically a port of my oEmbed for BuddyPress plugin 😉
Contributors
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