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Privacy friendly video embeds in WordPress
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| <?php | |
| // This will make WordPress ALWAYS use privacy friendly embeds, implemented here are YouTube and Vimeo. | |
| // Other services can be implemented by using this code as inspiration. | |
| add_filter( 'oembed_dataparse', 'myproject_patch_oembed_urls', 11 ); | |
| function myproject_patch_oembed_urls( $html ) { | |
| // find vimeo.com urls and add ?dnt=1 to them. | |
| $urls = wp_extract_urls( $html ); | |
| foreach ( $urls as $old_url ) { | |
| if ( false !== strpos( $old_url, 'vimeo.com' ) ) { | |
| $new_url = add_query_arg( 'dnt', 1, $old_url ); | |
| $html = str_replace( $old_url, $new_url, $html ); | |
| } | |
| // Embeds of youtu.be (and others) are already translated to youtube.com by WordPress, they all work. | |
| if ( false !== strpos( $old_url, 'youtube.com' ) ) { | |
| $old_url_domain = parse_url( $old_url, PHP_URL_HOST ); | |
| // www.youtube-nocookie.com MUST HAVE www. in the domain because the non-www version does not have a valid SSL certificate. #GoGoogle #Facepalm. | |
| $new_url_domain = 'www.youtube-nocookie.com'; | |
| $new_url = str_replace( "//$old_url_domain", "//$new_url_domain", $old_url ); | |
| $html = str_replace( $old_url, $new_url, $html ); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| return $html; | |
| } |
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