Embedly WordPress Plugin
The Embedly Plugin extends WordPress's auto embed feature to give your blog more media types, video analytics, recommendation, and style options.
Enhance the default WordPress embedding to get previews for any article, including your own blog posts. You also get embeds for Gfycat, Twitch, Google Maps, and Embedly’s growing list of 300+ supported providers.
You can customize the style of the embeds, to optimize for darker WP themes, alignment, and width. In addition, social buttons can be added around the embeds to make it easier to share content from your blog posts.
For most music and video players embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, SoundCloud) you can receive analytics on viewer behaviors. See which videos are being watched and for how long.
Using it is as simple as the default WordPress embedding. Embed media by pasting its URL in a single line when writing a post:
This Embedly lets me embed everything great on the web!
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oembed
pdf
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Sites running Embedly, click to open one
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Usage of Embedly over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 438 to 243 — down 195 (-44.5%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 243 | -10 |
| June 2024 | 253 | -1 |
| May 2024 | 254 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 254 | -5 |
| March 2024 | 259 | -75 |
| February 2024 | 334 | -6 |
| January 2024 | 340 | -39 |
| December 2023 | 379 | -26 |
| November 2023 | 405 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 405 | -5 |
| September 2023 | 410 | -22 |
| August 2023 | 432 | -4 |
| July 2023 | 436 | -2 |
| June 2023 | 438 | — |
Themes used with Embedly
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Twentyeleven |
| 3 | Suffusion |
| 4 | Twentytwelve |
| 5 | Responsive |
| 6 | Avada |
| 7 | Vantage |
| 8 | Divi |
| 9 | Twentyfourteen |
| 10 | Canvas |
| 11 | Spacious |
| 12 | Pinboard |
| 13 | Avada-child-theme |
| 14 | Magazine-basic |
| 15 | Arras |
| 16 | News |
| 17 | Salient |
| 18 | Aggregate |
| 19 | Atahualpa |
| 20 | Greenearth_child |
Sites running Embedly
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