Image Hotspots by Pleaseup – Interactive Image Map & Tooltips
Image Hotspots by Pleaseup is a responsive image hotspot plugin that lets you add interactive image maps, tooltips, and annotations to any image with a visual drag & drop editor.
External services
This plugin contacts third-party services in two distinct flows. Both flows are triggered only by an authenticated editor (with edit_posts) pasting a URL inside a tooltip; no data leaves the site automatically.
Server-side oEmbed resolution (wp_oembed_get)
When the editor pastes a URL from one of the supported oEmbed providers into a tooltip, the plugin calls the provider’s oEmbed endpoint server-side via WordPress core’s wp_oembed_get() to retrieve the embed HTML. The URL pasted by the editor is sent to the provider; no other data is sent. Supported providers:
- YouTube — Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Vimeo — Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms — Privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
- Spotify — Terms: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/ — Privacy: https://www.spotify.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Client-side iframe rendering
When a tooltip containing an oEmbed iframe is opened on a public page, the visitor’s browser loads the iframe directly from the provider’s CDN (e.g. youtube.com, player.vimeo.com, open.spotify.com). This is standard browser behavior for any embedded media; the plugin does not add any tracking on top.
The set of allowed iframe hosts is filterable via the wphs_allowed_iframe_hosts filter. Hosts not in the allowlist are stripped from tooltip HTML on save.