Just installed Elgg 4.06 on my personal webserver and noticed that when I share an external link (like from imdb or youtube) into a comment there is no "preview" from the external site (showing a thumbnail and subject title, ect.. ) which seems to be a common thing these days. Is there a configuration setting and/or plugin that provides this feature? Thanks!
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Thanks Nikolai, I installed it.. and nothing changed? I added a domain to the blacklist and still nothing changed for links to other sites.. How to troubleshoot this?
First, you must add the domain to a whitelist if you want to parse it.
But usually you don't have to do that.
Secondly, try to insert a link from YouTube, but in the description of the blog's post instead of comment.
Check if the youtube video is displayed
Also, I guess this will not work for comments on the Activity or entities' list but on the full view pages only.
ok. so it works for youtube, but that seems to be the only site it works on.. does that sound right? (whitelist and blacklist are both empty) .. also, I'm on Elgg 4.x.
This should also work for other popular sites.
You can see a full list of all providers here.
If you've a specific site, try to add it to the whitelist.
However, this doesn't guarantee that the link will work.
There are many reasons for this.
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Rich did you find the plug in hard to install and would you mind giving me some tips on how you installed it. Thanks
The Oembed plugin is meant to replace certain url's (like youtube links) with there content. This works for sites that support the oembed standard. Mostly this is media sites (youtube, vimeo, facebook, twitter, etc).
It should be as easy as uploading the content of the zip file for your Elgg version to the /mods folder on your webserver and than enabling the plugin in the plugin list.
http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/admin/plugins.html#installation