Facebook Embeds No Longer Work on WordPress?

It’s unfortunate they’ve moved that way, but at least there’s still a way to do it.

I read down this forum and tried everything the sarah palin code works I just cant get FB embed code to work – i see load of videos showing how it works but my basic twenty twelve theme wont do it – i just get the wording and no imnages

here is the test post
https://spencerssouthport.co.uk/test-3/

here is the FB post
https://www.facebook.com/214710901926892/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=0&wend=1441090799&hash=3802433569564620705&pagefilter=3

just got James huff alteration to work – surely there is another way

solved I used https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/facebook-api/ plugin and now i can embed FB into wordpress

still doesn’t work for me. I seem to have tried everything, still not able to embed a facebook post in WordPress. It looks like it’s working it, but can’t render any post with image.

Let’s open a new thread to investigate your issue, @ffwrd: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform

I hard-coded Facebook’s SDK in the HTML head long ago – and I’m doing this on three sites. It works fine on all three of my sites. For it to work, the SDK has to be hard-coded into the header (it won’t work in the footer – I know Javascripts should generally go in the footer, but this one won’t work there) and the complete embed code provided by Facebook has to be loaded where you want it. You hard-code the SDK via your theme. Once that’s done, you can use Facebook embeds. You don’t need a plugin and should not rely on one – if the plugin is sunset and you have hundreds or thousands of posts with Facebook embeds, they’re all going to break.

As the mods noted above, WordPress does not support Facebook embeds natively via non-hyperlinked URL on its own line. Use Facebook’s complete embed code.

Text, photo and video embeds work fine; event invites fail for some reason, but I rarely post those. Events tend to be ephemeral posts anyway.

confirming that @devitor’s tips (adding script to header area) resolved facebook embed issues on my end. thanks @devitor

thank you @devitor adding the script you gave to my header also resolved my Facebook embed problems.

Sorry for the newbie question, but where do I add this code into the header.php and single.php?

Will this be overwritten when the theme is updated?

Is it better to create a child theme (have to learn how to do that), or is it better to just find a plugin that’s already out there that would enable this?

You’re welcome Canadianangelxo.

JCBennett…. where you put it will depend on what theme you’re using and if you are using a child skin with the theme. On Thesis, it has to go in the head for Home, and Page – any place where you expect to display the embed code. You would need to find the equivalent locations for whichever theme you’re using.

I am using the Hemingway theme without any child skins.

I’m really just wondering where IN header and single I need to add this in? Does it matter, or can it be appended to the bottom of each file?

I’m assuming it needs to be placed within a certain area of the file in order to be parsed correctly. Right?

The Error if fixed by adding support to Facebook through wp_oembed_add_provider

// Register oEmbed Facebook providers
function custom_oembed_provider() {
wp_oembed_add_provider( ‘https://www.facebook.com/*/posts/*’, ‘https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post/oembed.json/?url=’, false );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘custom_oembed_provider’ );

Hope it helps someone ??

Nice find, minakolta!

Would you please report that as a bug?

https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/

8 months ago, I thought it was a bug with Facebook, but if it can be “fixed” in WordPress, we might as well.