To embed content from google maps:
Here is a screenshot of the bottom left of a google map.
Click the cog to get the embed code:
This open a lightbox where you can choose the embed code, the size and copy the code:
Which gives:
Starting to demo some of new jetpack features in #GlowBlogs https://t.co/RFZopOsF3k more later #peskymeetings #GlowScot
— john johnston (@johnjohnston) April 24, 2015
Once you have enabled the twitter-timeline feature you can paste in the embed code for a tweet and it will be nicely formatted.
You can find the code to embed a tweet buy clicking the elipsis and choosing embed:
The [[archive]] shortcode will produce a list of posts:
There are lots of options:
[archives format=option limit=12] gives a popup menu:
Archives Shortcode — Support — WordPress.com gies more details of all the options.
To embed an instagram photo just paste the link to the page into a line in the post:
https://instagram.com/p/0DbyM4AW3_/
Get the url for a Vimeo page and paste it in on its own line:
You need to go to the tedtalk page and get the link and paste it in.
When I posted that it produced a link to a page on text explaining some technical difficulties. Since then it has started working.
Paste in the url to a flickr photo page and:
Just paste in a youtube url and the player is embedded.
You can also paste in the embed code from YouTube and it will be converted to a shortcake, this is handy if you want to customise the video size or other options. For example avoid showing released videos.
Alternatively you can add ?rel=0 after the url before pasting it in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2wrYBPLsxg?rel=0
Which will hide related videos.
http://blip.tv/wptuts/02_create-a-new-post-5394926
Pasting the url to a blip.tv page will embed the video.
NB Blip.tv may be blocked on your network. Blip has adverts.
Markdown is a markup language with plain text formatting syntax. Markdown – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
It allows you to markup text without using the buttons in the WordPress Editor.
Although markdown is popular amount tech bloggers we do not expect many folk to use markdown. It might be a way to introduce coding to pupils.
