Shortcodes, iframes, and email
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This is a comment from my own point of view. It’s not a bug report, and I’m very happy with WordPress and all its features, on the whole.
Getty Images recently made some of their images available for free. I just heard about it, and WordPress.com had already implemented a shortcode to allow images to be embedded in posts. Yay! But …
My blog is for a club, and most club members follow it by email. I knew what to expect with the Getty Images shortcode because it behaves the same as the one for Google Calendar. The image does not show up in the emailed version of the post, just as the calendar does not. (I tested both web email and a desktop client.)
A staff member gave an explanation along the lines of “<Iframe>s in email are a security problem.” I’m sure he’s right.
The thing is, how many WordPress bloggers and their email followers are going to get bit by this? I don’t know. I hope someone at WordPress has thought about it. (“It’s not our problem” would not be a good answer.)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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People have already realized many of the limitations of the free Getty embed function. As someone who has dealt with Getty for years, I assure you that this was anticipated and planned for from the beginning.
You can have the images free to embed directly in your blog and upload to your media library and going out in your RSS feed and email subscription updates, IF you pay Getty’s blogger fee which is, I believe, $300 per month. If you want the images for free, you accept the limitations, which after all encourage people to go to your blog, not just follow it by email.
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