This API Change Will Break Many WordPress Sites in 2 Days – Are You Prepared?
Do you have embeds on your WordPress site from Facebook or Instagram? October 24th, there is going to be a change to how Facebook and Instagram handle embeds that will break their functionality on WordPress sites. Don't worry, we've come up with a few different solutions to get around this issue that can help you. In this video, we will show you how to fix the Facebook and Instagram oEmbed issue in WordPress.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Why Are Instagram and Facebook embeds breaking?
00:50 Solution
01:08 How to install Instagram Feed plugin
02:20 How to install custom Facebook Feed plugin
02:55 Alternative
03:12 Your help
We recommend two different plugins for this, for Facebook we recommend the plugin below:
For Instagram we recommend the plugin below:
For an alternate and currently more complicated method, you could instead use the plugin below:
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How can i remove date and author name from my wordpress post?
For what you’re looking for, you would want to take a look at our article below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-remove-author-name-from-wordpress-posts/
For the date we don’t recommend removing it:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/why-you-should-not-remove-dates-from-your-wordpress-blog-posts/
I cannot embed Google Maps on my site. Is this because of a change in the API for Google Maps?
There is a chance for that, you may want to look into the plugin below for an option:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress/
Is there a way I can get help with this? I’m visually impaired.