You need a free scribd account. You do not need to pay for the book access.
Activate The Jetpack plugin
Turn on the shortcode module.
Upload your document to scribed, and get the mebed code:
Author: John
I am a retired (2025) primary teacher. I act as part-time Product Owner/provide support for Glow Blogs. I like Blogs.
Shortcode – Googlemaps
To embed content from google maps:
- Make sure the Jetpack plugin is enabled and you have activated the shortcode module.
- Open a map page find and copy the embed code.
- Create a page or post (or edit an existing one.
- Switch to the Text Editor and paste in the code.
- Publish or update your post.
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:
Shortcode – Twitter
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:
Shortcode – archive
The [[archive]] shortcode will produce a list of posts:
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Google Translate
- Tiled Gallery Block
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Milestone
- Sitemap
- Shortcode – Slideshare
- Shortcode Presentation
- Widget Visibility
- Custom Content Types
- Site Icon
- Sharing
- Shortcode – scribd
- Shortcode – Googlemaps
- Shortcode – Twitter
- Shortcode – archive
- Shortcode – Instagram
- Shortcode – Vimeo Video
- Shortcode- Tedtalk Video
- Shortcode – flickr
- Shortcodes – YouTube Video
- Shortcodes – Blip.tv Video
- Markdown
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Twitter Timeline
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Image
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – RSS Links
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Facebook Page
- Extra Sidebar Widgets – Contact Info
- Custom CSS
- Contact Form
- Carousel
- Beautiful Maths
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.
Shortcode – Instagram
To embed an instagram photo just paste the link to the page into a line in the post:
https://instagram.com/p/0DbyM4AW3_/
Shortcode – Vimeo Video
Get the url for a Vimeo page and paste it in on its own line:
Shortcode- Tedtalk Video
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.
Shortcode – flickr
Paste in the url to a flickr photo page and:
Shortcodes – YouTube Video
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.
Shortcodes – Blip.tv Video
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.
