Plugin: Easy Embed

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The WordPress editor doesn’t always play nice with HTML (especially if you switch back and forth between the Visual and HTML editor). This problem has bugged me for a while, and I finally sat down and built a simple plugin to solve it. There are other solutions out there, but I find this meth0d to be the easiest to use. After installing the plugin, all that is required is to create a custom field (you can name it anything), place your code in the new custom field. This could be HTML, video embed codes, Paypal forms, etc. Then place the following shortcode into your post where you want your special code to go:

[easyembed field="name-of-custom-field"]

I’ve submitted this plugin for inclusion in the WordPress plugin directory and I’m waiting for  a response. In the mean time, here is the code that makes it work.

<?php

/*
Plugin Name: Easy Embed
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/#
Description: Allows the embedding of any code and protects it from being modified by the WordPress editor
Author: Alex Mansfield
Version: 1.0
Author URI: http://alexmansfield.com/
*/

function am_easy_embed($array) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array('field' => 'custom'), $array));
global $post;
$html = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field, true);
return $html;
}
add_shortcode('easyembed', 'am_easy_embed');

?>