Disable Certain Embed Links [Twitter] But Allow Others

[Dreadknux]

The AdminCP setting to "Automatically embed links" applies to every platform that is supported, and while I want to be able to allow embedding of YouTube videos etc I want to DISABLE Twitter links specifically. There appears to be no sub-setting to choose which platforms you can allow embedding on - it would be good to have support for this.

There are multiple reasons I want to disable Twitter specifically:

• Embedded tweets take ages to appear on page load, making for a crummy UX for my users
• Distracts from community content, which is not helpful when Twitter etc are platforms that forums constantly have to compete with for attention - if people really want to see what a tweet says, they should just click the link
• Twitter going the way of the dodo generally and I really don't want to support it

In a perfect world, would be good to have a sub-setting in AdminCP where we can pick and choose which links automatically embed and which ones we can disable... but in the short-term there should just be a mod/hack to allow disabling of Twitter embeds and auto-embedding of everything else. 🙂 

[Nathan Explosion]

41 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

mod

 

 

 

[Dreadknux]

2 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

 

 

 

Thanks for this, looks great - would this allow me to let users embed content from platforms I choose (like YouTube) while disabling the same for others (like Twitter)? It’s not super clear on the marketplace page

[Nathan Explosion]

1 minute ago, Dreadknux said:

It’s not super clear on the marketplace page

First couple of lines:

Anyway...yes, it provides you with the ability to

2 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

allow me to let users embed content from platforms I choose (like YouTube) while disabling the same for others (like Twitter)?

 

[Dreadknux]

Thanks - I’ll look into it as a short term solution. Appreciate it!

I think this should be a feature in the next version of IPS in the long term though so I’ll keep the topic open 🙂