Request: build an integration for plot.ly

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  stwwilkinson · Member · Jul 9, 2014 at 7:29 am

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  plot.ly is a fairly new (and amazing) tool for generating interactive representations of data (graphs, etc.) I predict it will be increasingly used by professional scientists and mathematicians.

  Can we have an integration, please? Currently plot.ly graphs can only be embedded through iframes, which wordpress does not allow for security reasons.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 9, 2014 at 8:14 am

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  The general timeline is at least two years. I suggest you look elsewhere.

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  mattsundquist · Member · Jul 9, 2014 at 9:14 am

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  Hey Sean, Matt from Plotly here; thanks for the encouragement :) .

  You have two potential options. Let me know if I’m missing something, and if we can help out.

  One is you can download and embed your graphs as images, then link back to the live graph. Since Plotly graphs are at a URL, you could presumably put in the image then link back to the URL, e.g.,: https://plot.ly/~streaming-demos/4/double-pendulum-simulation/. Though, as that live-streaming demo shows, you don’t get the interactivity in the image or movement if it’s streaming (and 3D graphs wouldn’t be as fun that way).

  The other move could be following up on what raincoaster suggests and looking elsewhere. This is what we ended up doing because of the iframe issue. So we’re using Tumblr. You could do that, or use GitHub blogs for your iframes (https://pages.github.com/). Here’s an example from our Tumblr:

  http://blog.plot.ly/post/84402951992/contour-plots-error-bars-chocolate-beer-meat.

  If you’d like to check it out, you can see how embedding works here: https://plot.ly/python/embedding-plotly-graphs-in-HTML/.