Enable oEmbed Within Text/HTML Widgets

October 30, 2013
WordPress Snippets

By default if you paste a link to a YouTube video within a WordPress post, it automatically embeds the video – unfortuneatly if you paste a video URL into a text widget this doesn’t happen. Paste the below into your functions.php file to turn on oEmbed functionality for text/HTML widgets:

add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'run_shortcode' ), 8 );
add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'autoembed'), 8 );

1 2	add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'run_shortcode' ), 8 ); add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'autoembed'), 8 );