How to embed Strava Activity

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  marcoleh91 · Member · May 27, 2021 at 10:26 am

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  Hello wordpress forum,

  I would like to embed my activity from Strava. I have a free plan. The code is in iframe. When I insert the html code in my text editor it looks perfectly fine.

  However, when I preview my blog article, it is greyed out or just disappeared.

  Does anybody have the same error or knows a solution for this?

  I found out that there is a iframe plugin, but I would need to upgrade to business, which does not match my intention of this blog.

  Thanks and BR
  Marco

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  maksimurasov · Member · May 27, 2021 at 10:33 am

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  Hi Marco,

  Glad to hear that you are active and use Strava :)
  However iFrame is not allowed on plans below Business, that is for security reasons. Business and eCommerce plans have different servers, created for personal website security in mind, which allows custom themes, plugins, embeds like iFrame and so on.
  I will check if there are some alternatives to add Strava embed, so far do not know but will let you know if any.

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  maksimurasov · Member · May 27, 2021 at 10:35 am

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  Oh, forgot to add a useful link about code that is supported on WordPress.com, you might need that in a future:
  https://wordpress.com/support/code/

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  maksimurasov · Member · May 27, 2021 at 11:19 am

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  Dear Staff reading this,

  Maybe there is already some implementation of the Strava embed on WordPress.com as Herman mentioned in 2016 here?https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/strava-widget-6/#post-2783544

  But I have added this to our feature request list so we can look at the possibility of adding it in future.

  
  @marcoleh91,

  I have found one workaround:
  1)First share Strava content on your Facebook;
  2)Then open that facebook post in a separate window, copy URL like this: https://www.facebook.com/maksim.urasov/posts/3966594800089961
  3)At your desired WordPress.com page create a Facebook block and add a link above to it. That worked for me, here is a temporary link: https://freewpaccount289509231.wordpress.com/2021/05/14/page-full-of-one-category-posts/ p.s. Pressing the image of that new embed leads to Strava page, not Facebook.

  Hope that helps.