Lost Features

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  flameflash · Member · May 25, 2026 at 10:01 pm

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  I had something long, deleted it, and here’s the TL;DR: anybody have any good workarounds for the lost/changed features?

  Embedding videos are now on premium if you’re posting from a URL (even if it’s from a hosted site elsewhere that I own) and images now can’t be copy/pasted into the block editor and have to be manually inserted with a tool.

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  staartmees · Member · May 26, 2026 at 8:03 am

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  It was never possible on the Free Plan to upload videos, but you can always embed videos from Youtube – https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/youtube-block/‘ and several popular platforms – https://wordpress.com/support/videos/#embed-from-other-services

  Yes, you can copy and paste an image directly into the block editor. This works for screenshots, image files, or images copied from many desktop apps. WordPress will automatically upload the image to your Media Library and insert it into the block. However using the Image Block has more features – https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/image-block/

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  flameflash · Member · May 26, 2026 at 10:34 am

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  Yeah, not trying to do either of those things. I’m trying to embed just by pasting URLs.