Dear Newspaper friends:
We routinely manually insert ‘related links’ into our stories, either at the end of the story or midway.
Right now, the behavior when we insert one of our own links into a story, the oEmbed function builds a large box topped by the hedline, a thumbnail of the featured image, the post’s ‘excerpt,’ a wordpress logo and our site name.
What I would like to do is make changes to how the oEmbed is handled, so that it renders differently on the page. (We want it to insert a much smaller yet nicely formatted item that we can drop say, 3 links in a row in the middle of a story)
In short, how can one make changes to how oEmbeds are displayed?
This is a WordPress thing and not a theme thing? Any pointers helpful, I have spent a considerable amount of time researching the issue and will be happy to share my solution as it may be useful for other media professionals.
Hi,
The oembed is a default wordpress function and it does not come from the theme. unfortunately we have no advice to give on wordpress feature customization. You will have to search through wordpress’ forums or other online resourcess such as: https://www.sitepoint.com/customizing-wordpress-oembed-content/
I hope this helps.
Thanks.
Thanks Bogdan, I understand and appreciate the response.
