Index: wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/admin-ajax.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-admin/admin-ajax.php	(working copy)
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@
 
 	die();
 	break;
+case 'oembed-cache' :
+	$return = ( $wp_embed->cache_oembed( $_GET['post'] ) ) ? '1' : '0';
+	die( $return );
+	break;
 default :
 	do_action( 'wp_ajax_' . $_GET['action'] );
 	die('0');
Index: wp-admin/includes/schema.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/includes/schema.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-admin/includes/schema.php	(working copy)
@@ -305,7 +305,13 @@
 	'widget_rss' => array(),
 
 	// 2.8
-	'timezone_string' => ''
+	'timezone_string' => '',
+
+	// 2.9
+	'embed_useoembed' => 1,
+	'embed_autourls' => 1,
+	'embed_size_w' => '',
+	'embed_size_h' => 600,
 	);
 
 	// Set autoload to no for these options
Index: wp-admin/options-media.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/options-media.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-admin/options-media.php	(working copy)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 <tr valign="top">
 <th scope="row"><?php _e('Medium size') ?></th>
-<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e('Medium size') ?></span></legend>
+<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e('Medium size'); ?></span></legend>
 <label for="medium_size_w"><?php _e('Max Width'); ?></label>
 <input name="medium_size_w" type="text" id="medium_size_w" value="<?php form_option('medium_size_w'); ?>" class="small-text" />
 <label for="medium_size_h"><?php _e('Max Height'); ?></label>
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 <tr valign="top">
 <th scope="row"><?php _e('Large size') ?></th>
-<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e('Large size') ?></span></legend>
+<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e('Large size'); ?></span></legend>
 <label for="large_size_w"><?php _e('Max Width'); ?></label>
 <input name="large_size_w" type="text" id="large_size_w" value="<?php form_option('large_size_w'); ?>" class="small-text" />
 <label for="large_size_h"><?php _e('Max Height'); ?></label>
@@ -65,6 +65,38 @@
 <?php do_settings_fields('media', 'default'); ?>
 </table>
 
+<h3><?php _e('Embeds') ?></h3>
+
+<table class="form-table">
+
+<tr valign="top">
+<th scope="row"><?php _e('oEmbed'); ?></th>
+<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php printf( __('Use <a href="%s">oEmbed</a> to assist in rich content embedding'), 'http://codex.wordpress.org/oEmbed' ); ?></span></legend>
+<label for="embed_useoembed"><input name="embed_useoembed" type="checkbox" id="embed_useoembed" value="1" <?php checked( '1', get_option('embed_useoembed') ); ?>/> <?php printf( __('Use <a href="%s">oEmbed</a> to assist in rich content embedding'), 'http://codex.wordpress.org/oEmbed' ); ?></label>
+</fieldset></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr valign="top">
+<th scope="row"><?php _e('Auto-embeds'); ?></th>
+<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e('Attempt to automatically embed all plain text URLs'); ?></span></legend>
+<label for="embed_autourls"><input name="embed_autourls" type="checkbox" id="embed_autourls" value="1" <?php checked( '1', get_option('embed_autourls') ); ?>/> <?php _e('Attempt to automatically embed all plain text URLs'); ?></label>
+</fieldset></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr valign="top">
+<th scope="row"><?php _e('Embed size') ?></th>
+<td>
+<label for="embed_size_w"><?php _e('Width'); ?></label>
+<input name="embed_size_w" type="text" id="embed_size_w" value="<?php form_option('embed_size_w'); ?>" class="small-text" />
+<label for="embed_size_h"><?php _e('Height'); ?></label>
+<input name="embed_size_h" type="text" id="embed_size_h" value="<?php form_option('embed_size_h'); ?>" class="small-text" />
+<?php if ( !empty($content_width) ) echo '<br />' . __("If the width value is left blank, embeds will default to the max width of your theme."); ?>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<?php do_settings_fields('media', 'embeds'); ?>
+</table>
+
 <?php do_settings_sections('media'); ?>
 
 <p class="submit">
Index: wp-admin/options.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/options.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-admin/options.php	(working copy)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 	'general' => array( 'blogname', 'blogdescription', 'admin_email', 'users_can_register', 'gmt_offset', 'date_format', 'time_format', 'start_of_week', 'default_role', 'timezone_string' ),
 	'discussion' => array( 'default_pingback_flag', 'default_ping_status', 'default_comment_status', 'comments_notify', 'moderation_notify', 'comment_moderation', 'require_name_email', 'comment_whitelist', 'comment_max_links', 'moderation_keys', 'blacklist_keys', 'show_avatars', 'avatar_rating', 'avatar_default', 'close_comments_for_old_posts', 'close_comments_days_old', 'thread_comments', 'thread_comments_depth', 'page_comments', 'comments_per_page', 'default_comments_page', 'comment_order', 'comment_registration' ),
 	'misc' => array( 'use_linksupdate', 'uploads_use_yearmonth_folders', 'upload_path', 'upload_url_path' ),
-	'media' => array( 'thumbnail_size_w', 'thumbnail_size_h', 'thumbnail_crop', 'medium_size_w', 'medium_size_h', 'large_size_w', 'large_size_h', 'image_default_size', 'image_default_align', 'image_default_link_type' ),
+	'media' => array( 'thumbnail_size_w', 'thumbnail_size_h', 'thumbnail_crop', 'medium_size_w', 'medium_size_h', 'large_size_w', 'large_size_h', 'image_default_size', 'image_default_align', 'image_default_link_type', 'embed_useoembed', 'embed_autourls', 'embed_size_w', 'embed_size_h' ),
 	'privacy' => array( 'blog_public' ),
 	'reading' => array( 'posts_per_page', 'posts_per_rss', 'rss_use_excerpt', 'blog_charset', 'show_on_front', 'page_on_front', 'page_for_posts' ),
 	'writing' => array( 'default_post_edit_rows', 'use_smilies', 'ping_sites', 'mailserver_url', 'mailserver_port', 'mailserver_login', 'mailserver_pass', 'default_category', 'default_email_category', 'use_balanceTags', 'default_link_category', 'enable_app', 'enable_xmlrpc' ),
Index: wp-includes/class-oembed.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/class-oembed.php	(revision 0)
+++ wp-includes/class-oembed.php	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * API for fetching the HTML to embed remote content based on a provided URL.
+ * Used internally by the {@link WP_Embed} class, but is designed to be generic.
+ *
+ * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/oEmbed oEmbed Codex Article
+ * @link http://oembed.com/ oEmbed Homepage
+ *
+ * @package WordPress
+ * @subpackage oEmbed
+ */
+
+/**
+ * oEmbed class.
+ *
+ * @package WordPress
+ * @subpackage oEmbed
+ * @since 2.9.0
+ */
+class WP_oEmbed {
+	var $providers = array();
+
+	/**
+	 * PHP4 constructor
+	 */
+	function WP_oEmbed() {
+		return $this->__construct();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * PHP5 constructor
+	 *
+	 * @uses apply_filters() Filters a list of pre-defined oEmbed providers.
+	 */
+	function __construct() {
+		// List out some popular sites, mainly ones that don't have discovery tags in their <head>
+		$this->providers = apply_filters( 'oembed_providers', array(
+			'http://blip.tv/file/*'       => 'http://blip.tv/oembed/',
+			'http://*.flickr.com/*'       => 'http://www.flickr.com/services/oembed/',
+			'http://*.viddler.com/*'      => 'http://lab.viddler.com/services/oembed/',
+			'http://qik.com/*'            => 'http://qik.com/api/oembed.{format}',
+			'http://*.revision3.com/*'    => 'http://revision3.com/api/oembed/',
+			'http://www.hulu.com/watch/*' => 'http://www.hulu.com/api/oembed.{format}',
+
+			// Vimeo uses the discovery <link>, so leave this commented to use it as a discovery test
+			//'http://www.vimeo.com/*'      => 'http://www.vimeo.com/api/oembed.{format}',
+		) );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The do-it-all function that takes a URL and attempts to return the HTML.
+	 *
+	 * @see WP_eEmbed::discover()
+	 * @see WP_eEmbed::fetch()
+	 * @see WP_eEmbed::data2html()
+	 *
+	 * @param string $url The URL to the content that should be attempted to be embedded.
+	 * @param array $args Optional arguments. Usually passed from a shortcode.
+	 * @return bool|string False on failure, otherwise the UNSANITIZED (and potentially unsafe) HTML that should be used to embed.
+	 */
+	function getHTML( $url, $args = '' ) {
+		$provider = false;
+
+		foreach ( $this->providers as $scheme => $providerurl ) { // Needs a better variable name
+
+			// Turn the asterisk-type provider URLs into regex
+			$regex = '#' . str_replace( '___wildcard___', '(.+)', preg_quote( str_replace( '*', '___wildcard___', $scheme ) ) ) . '#i';
+
+			if ( preg_match( $regex, $url ) ) {
+				$provider = str_replace( '{format}', 'json', $providerurl ); // JSON is easier to deal with than XML
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+
+		if ( !$provider )
+			$provider = $this->discover( $url );
+
+		if ( !$provider || false === $data = $this->fetch( $provider, $url, $args ) )
+			return false;
+
+		return apply_filters( 'oembed_output', $this->data2html( $data, $url ), $url, $args );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Attempts to find oEmbed provider discovery <link> tags at the given URL.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $url The URL that should be inspected for discovery <link> tags.
+	 * @return bool|string False on failure, otherwise the oEmbed provider URL.
+	 */
+	function discover( $url ) {
+		$providers = array();
+
+		// Fetch URL content
+		if ( $html = wp_remote_retrieve_body( wp_remote_get( $url ) ) ) {
+
+			// <link> types that contain oEmbed provider URLs
+			$linktypes = apply_filters( 'oembed_linktypes', array(
+				'application/json+oembed' => 'json',
+				'text/xml+oembed' => 'xml',
+				'application/xml+oembed' => 'xml', // Incorrect, but used by at least Vimeo
+			) );
+
+			// Strip <body>
+			$html = substr( $html, 0, stripos( $html, '</head>' ) );
+
+			// Do a quick check
+			$tagfound = false;
+			foreach ( $linktypes as $linktype => $format ) {
+				if ( stripos($html, $linktype) ) {
+					$tagfound = true;
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
+			if ( $tagfound && preg_match_all( '/<link([^<>]+)>/i', $html, $links ) ) {
+				foreach ( $links[1] as $link ) {
+					$atts = shortcode_parse_atts( $link );
+
+					if ( !empty($atts['type']) && !empty($linktypes[$atts['type']]) && !empty($atts['href']) ) {
+						$providers[$linktypes[$atts['type']]] = $atts['href'];
+
+						// Stop here if it's JSON (that's all we need)
+						if ( 'json' == $linktypes[$atts['type']] )
+							break;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		// JSON is preferred to XML
+		if ( !empty($providers['json']) )
+			return $providers['json'];
+		elseif ( !empty($providers['xml']) )
+			return $providers['xml'];
+		else
+			return false;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Connects to a oEmbed provider and returns the result.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $provider The URL to the oEmbed provider.
+	 * @param string $url The URL to the content that is desired to be embedded.
+	 * @param array $args Optional arguments. Usually passed from a shortcode.
+	 * @return bool|object False on failure, otherwise the result in the form of an object.
+	 */
+	function fetch( $provider, $url, $args = '' ) {
+		$args = wp_parse_args( $args, wp_embed_defaults() );
+
+		$provider = add_query_arg( 'format', 'json', $provider ); // JSON is easier to deal with than XML
+
+		$provider = add_query_arg( 'maxwidth', $args['width'], $provider );
+		$provider = add_query_arg( 'maxheight', $args['height'], $provider );
+		$provider = add_query_arg( 'url', urlencode($url), $provider );
+
+		if ( !$result = wp_remote_retrieve_body( wp_remote_get( $provider ) ) )
+			return false;
+
+		$result = trim( $result );
+
+		// JSON?
+		// Example content: http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F240975
+		if ( $data = json_decode($result) ) {
+			return $data;
+		}
+
+		// Must be XML. Start out with the super easy to use PHP5 functions.
+		// Example content: http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F240975
+		elseif ( function_exists('simplexml_load_string') ) {
+			$errors = libxml_use_internal_errors( 'true' );
+			
+			$data = simplexml_load_string( $result );
+
+			libxml_use_internal_errors( $errors );
+
+			if ( is_object($data) )
+				return $data;
+		}
+
+		// Still must be XML, but no PHP5 support. Use PHP4 functions (ugh).
+		// Example content: http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F240975
+		else {
+
+			#############################
+			#############################
+			#############################
+			#############################
+			##### SOMEONE CODE ME! ######
+			#############################
+			#############################
+			#############################
+			#############################
+
+		}
+
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Converts a data object from {@link WP_oEmbed::fetch()} and returns the HTML.
+	 *
+	 * @param object $data A data object result from an oEmbed provider.
+	 * @param string $url The URL to the content that is desired to be embedded.
+	 * @return bool|string False on error, otherwise the HTML needed to embed.
+	 */
+	function data2html( $data, $url ) {
+		if ( !is_object($data) || empty($data->type) )
+			return false;
+
+		switch ( $data->type ) {
+			case 'photo':
+				if ( empty($data->url) || empty($data->width) || empty($data->height) )
+					return false;
+
+				$title = ( !empty($data->title) ) ? $data->title : '';
+				return '<img src="' . esc_attr( clean_url( $data->url ) ) . '" alt="' . esc_attr($title) . '" width="' . esc_attr($data->width) . '" height="' . esc_attr($data->height) . '" />';
+
+			case 'video':
+			case 'rich':
+				return ( !empty($data->html) ) ? $data->html : false;
+
+			case 'link':
+				return ( !empty($data->title) ) ? '<a href="' . clean_url($url) . '">' . esc_html($data->title) . '</a>' : false;
+		}
+
+		return false;
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns the initialized {@link WP_oEmbed} object
+ *
+ * @since 2.9.0
+ * @access private
+ *
+ * @see WP_oEmbed
+ * @uses WP_oEmbed
+ *
+ * @return WP_oEmbed object.
+ */
+function &_wp_oembed_get_object() {
+	static $wp_oembed;
+
+	if ( is_null($wp_oembed) )
+		$wp_oembed = new WP_oEmbed();
+
+	return $wp_oembed;
+}
Index: wp-includes/formatting.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/formatting.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-includes/formatting.php	(working copy)
@@ -2355,6 +2355,8 @@
 		case 'medium_size_h':
 		case 'large_size_w':
 		case 'large_size_h':
+		//case 'embed_size_w':
+		case 'embed_size_h':
 		case 'default_post_edit_rows':
 		case 'mailserver_port':
 		case 'comment_max_links':
Index: wp-includes/media.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/media.php	(revision 11934)
+++ wp-includes/media.php	(working copy)
@@ -860,3 +860,449 @@
 	return $img;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Class for easily embeding media into posts/pages.
+ *
+ * @package WordPress
+ * @subpackage Embed
+ * @since 2.9.0
+ */
+class WP_Embed {
+	var $handlers = array();
+	var $post_ID;
+	var $usecache = true;
+	var $linkifunknown = true;
+
+	/**
+	 * PHP4 constructor
+	 */
+	function WP_Embed() {
+		return $this->__construct();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * PHP5 constructor
+	 */
+	function __construct() {
+		// Hack to get the [embed] shortcode to run before wpautop()
+		add_filter( 'the_content', array(&$this, 'run_shortcode'), 8 );
+
+		// Attempts to embed all URLs in a post
+		if ( get_option('embed_autourls') )
+			add_filter( 'the_content', array(&$this, 'autoembed'), 8 );
+
+		// After a post is saved, cache oEmbed items via AJAX
+		if ( get_option('embed_useoembed') )
+			add_action( 'edit_form_advanced', array(&$this, 'maybe_run_ajax_cache') );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Process the [embed] shortcode.
+	 *
+	 * Since the [embed] shortcode needs to be run earlier than other shortcodes,
+	 * this function removes all existing shortcodes, registers the [embed] shortcode,
+	 * calls {@link do_shortcode()}, and then re-registers the old shortcodes.
+	 *
+	 * @uses $shortcode_tags
+	 * @uses remove_all_shortcodes()
+	 * @uses add_shortcode()
+	 * @uses do_shortcode()
+	 *
+	 * @param string $content Content to parse
+	 * @return string Content with shortcode parsed
+	 */
+	function run_shortcode( $content ) {
+		global $shortcode_tags;
+
+		// Backup current registered shortcodes and clear them all out
+		$orig_shortcode_tags = $shortcode_tags;
+		remove_all_shortcodes();
+
+		add_shortcode( 'embed', array(&$this, 'shortcode') );
+
+		// Do the shortcode (only the [embed] one is registered)
+		$content = do_shortcode( $content );
+
+		// Put the original shortcodes back
+		$shortcode_tags = $orig_shortcode_tags;
+
+		return $content;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * If a post/page was saved, then output Javascript to make
+	 * an AJAX request that will call WP_Embed::cache_oembed().
+	 */
+	function maybe_run_ajax_cache() {
+		global $post_ID;
+
+		if ( empty($post_ID) || empty($_GET['message']) || 1 != $_GET['message'] )
+			return;
+
+?>
+<script type="text/javascript">
+/* <![CDATA[ */
+	jQuery(document).ready(function($){
+		$.get("<?php echo admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php?action=oembed-cache&post=' . $post_ID ); ?>");
+	});
+/* ]]> */
+</script>
+<?php
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Register an embed handler. Do not use this function directly, use {@link wp_embed_register_handler()} instead.
+	 * This function should probably also only be used for sites that do not support oEmbed.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $id An internal ID/name for the handler. Needs to be unique.
+	 * @param string $regex The regex that will be used to see if this handler should be used for a URL.
+	 * @param callback $callback The callback function that will be called if the regex is matched.
+	 * @param int $priority Optional. Used to specify the order in which the registered handlers will be tested (default: 10). Lower numbers correspond with earlier testing, and handlers with the same priority are tested in the order in which they were added to the action.
+	 */
+	function register_handler( $id, $regex, $callback, $priority = 10 ) {
+		$this->handlers[$priority][$id] = array(
+			'regex'    => $regex,
+			'callback' => $callback,
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Unregister a previously registered embed handler. Do not use this function directly, use {@link wp_embed_unregister_handler()} instead.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $id The handler ID that should be removed.
+	 * @param int $priority Optional. The priority of the handler to be removed (default: 10).
+	 */
+	function unregister_handler( $id, $priority = 10 ) {
+		if ( isset($this->handlers[$priority][$id]) )
+			unset($this->handlers[$priority][$id]);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The {@link do_shortcode()} callback function.
+	 *
+	 * Attempts to convert a URL into embed HTML. Starts by checking the URL against the regex of the registered embed handlers.
+	 * If none of the regex matches and it's enabled, then the URL will be given to the {@link WP_oEmbed} class.
+	 *
+	 * @uses wp_oembed_get()
+	 * @uses wp_parse_args()
+	 * @uses wp_embed_defaults()
+	 * @uses WP_Embed::maybe_make_link()
+	 * @uses get_option()
+	 * @uses current_user_can()
+	 * @uses wp_cache_get()
+	 * @uses wp_cache_set()
+	 * @uses get_post_meta()
+	 * @uses update_post_meta()
+	 *
+	 * @param array $attr Shortcode attributes.
+	 * @param string $url The URL attempting to be embeded.
+	 * @return string The embed HTML on success, otherwise the original URL.
+	 */
+	function shortcode( $attr, $url = '' ) {
+		global $post, $_wp_using_ext_object_cache;
+
+		if ( empty($url) )
+			return '';
+
+		$rawattr = $attr;
+		$attr = wp_parse_args( $attr, wp_embed_defaults() );
+
+		// Look for known internal handlers
+		ksort( $this->handlers );
+		foreach ( $this->handlers as $priority => $handlers ) {
+			foreach ( $handlers as $id => $handler ) {
+				if ( preg_match( $handler['regex'], $url, $matches ) && is_callable( $handler['callback'] ) ) {
+					if ( false !== $return = call_user_func( $handler['callback'], $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) )
+						return $return;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Unknown URL format. Let oEmbed have a go.
+		if ( get_option('embed_useoembed') && current_user_can('unfiltered_html') ) {
+			$post_ID = ( !empty($post->ID) ) ? $post->ID : null;
+			if ( !empty($this->post_ID) ) // Potentially set by WP_Embed::cache_oembed()
+				$post_ID = $this->post_ID;
+
+			// Check for a cached result (stored in the post meta)
+			if ( $post_ID ) {
+				$cachekey = '_oembed_' . md5( $url . implode( '|', $attr ) );
+
+				if ( $this->usecache ) {
+					$cache = ( $_wp_using_ext_object_cache ) ? wp_cache_get( "{$post_ID}_{$cachekey}", 'oembed' ) : get_post_meta( $post_ID, $cachekey, true );
+
+					// Failures are cached
+					if ( '{{unknown}}' === $cache )
+						return $this->maybe_make_link( $url );
+
+					if ( !empty($cache) )
+						return $cache;
+				}
+			}
+
+			$html = wp_oembed_get( $url, $attr );
+
+			// Cache the result
+			if ( $post_ID ) {
+				$cache = ( $html ) ? $html : '{{unknown}}';
+
+				if ( $_wp_using_ext_object_cache )
+					wp_cache_set( "{$post_ID}_{$cachekey}", $cache, 'oembed' );
+				else
+					update_post_meta( $post_ID, $cachekey, $cache );
+			}
+
+			if ( $html )
+				return $html;
+		}
+
+		// Still unknown
+		return $this->maybe_make_link( $url );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Triggers a caching of all oEmbed results.
+	 *
+	 * @param int $post_ID Post ID to do the caching for.
+	 */
+	function cache_oembed( $post_ID ) {
+		$post = get_post( $post_ID );
+
+		// post_type check is incase of "save_post" usage
+		if ( empty($post->ID) || !in_array( $post->post_type, apply_filters( 'embed_cache_oembed_types', array( 'post', 'page' ) ) ) )
+			return;
+
+		// Dump existing caches
+		$post_metas = get_post_custom_keys( $post->ID );
+		foreach( $post_metas as $post_meta_key ) {
+			if ( '_oembed_' == substr( $post_meta_key, 0, 8 ) )
+				delete_post_meta( $post->ID, $post_meta_key );
+		}
+
+		// Trigger a caching
+		if ( !empty($post->post_content) ) {
+			$this->post_ID = $post->ID;
+			$this->usecache = false;
+
+			$content = $this->runshortcode( $post->post_content );
+			if ( get_option('embed_autourls') )
+				$this->autoembed( $content );
+
+			$this->usecache = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Passes any unlinked URLs that are on their own line to {@link WP_Embed::shortcode()} for potential embedding.
+	 *
+	 * @uses WP_Embed::autoembed_callback()
+	 *
+	 * @param string $content The content to be searched.
+	 * @return string Potentially modified $content.
+	 */
+	function autoembed( $content ) {
+		return preg_replace_callback( '|^\s*(https?://[^\s"]+)\s*$|im', array(&$this, 'autoembed_callback'), $content );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Callback function for {@link WP_Embed::autoembed()}.
+	 *
+	 * @uses WP_Embed::shortcode()
+	 *
+	 * @param array $match A regex match array.
+	 * @return string The embed HTML on success, otherwise the original URL.
+	 */
+	function autoembed_callback( $match ) {
+		$oldval = $this->linkifunknown;
+		$this->linkifunknown = false;
+		$return = $this->shortcode( array(), $match[1] );
+		$this->linkifunknown = $oldval;
+
+		return "\n$return\n";
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Conditionally makes a hyperlink based on an internal class variable.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $url URL to potentially be linked.
+	 * @return string Linked URL or the original URL.
+	 */
+	function maybe_make_link( $url ) {
+		return ( $this->linkifunknown ) ? '<a href="' . esc_attr($url) . '">' . esc_html($url) . '</a>' : $url;
+	}
+}
+$wp_embed = new WP_Embed();
+
+/**
+ * Register an embed handler. This function should probably only be used for sites that do not support oEmbed.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
+ */
+function wp_embed_register_handler( $id, $regex, $callback, $priority = 10 ) {
+	global $wp_embed;
+	$wp_embed->register_handler( $id, $regex, $callback, $priority );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Unregister a previously registered embed handler.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::unregister_handler()
+ */
+function wp_embed_unregister_handler( $id, $priority = 10 ) {
+	global $wp_embed;
+	$wp_embed->unregister_handler( $id, $priority );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Create default array of embed parameters.
+ *
+ * @return array Default embed parameters.
+ */
+function wp_embed_defaults() {
+	if ( !empty($GLOBALS['content_width']) )
+		$theme_width = (int) $GLOBALS['content_width'];
+
+	$width = get_option('embed_size_w');
+
+	if ( !$width && !empty($theme_width) )
+		$width = $theme_width;
+
+	if ( !$width )
+		$width = 500;
+
+	return apply_filters( 'embed_defaults', array(
+		'width' => $width,
+		'height' => 700,
+	) );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Based on a supplied width/height example, return the biggest possible dimensions based on the max width/height.
+ *
+ * @uses wp_constrain_dimensions() This function passes the widths and the heights.
+ *
+ * @param int $example_width The width of an example embed.
+ * @param int $example_height The height of an example embed.
+ * @param int $max_width The maximum allowed width.
+ * @param int $max_height The maximum allowed height.
+ * @return array The maximum possible width and height based on the example ratio.
+ */
+function wp_expand_dimensions( $example_width, $example_height, $max_width, $max_height ) {
+	$example_width  = (int) $example_width;
+	$example_height = (int) $example_height;
+	$max_width      = (int) $max_width;
+	$max_height     = (int) $max_height;
+
+	return wp_constrain_dimensions( $example_width * 1000000, $example_height * 1000000, $max_width, $max_height );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Attempts to fetch the embed HTML for a provided URL using oEmbed.
+ *
+ * @see WP_oEmbed
+ *
+ * @uses _wp_oembed_get_object()
+ * @uses WP_oEmbed::getHTML()
+ *
+ * @param string $url The URL that should be embeded.
+ * @param array $args Addtional arguments and parameters.
+ * @return string The original URL on failure or the embed HTML on success.
+ */
+function wp_oembed_get( $url, $args = '' ) {
+	require_once( 'class-oembed.php' );
+	$oembed = _wp_oembed_get_object();
+	return $oembed->getHTML( $url, $args );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The YouTube.com embed handler callback. YouTube does not support oEmbed and we want to provide extra customization.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
+ * @see WP_Embed::shortcode()
+ *
+ * @param array $matches The regex matches from the provided regex when calling {@link wp_embed_register_handler()}.
+ * @param array $attr Embed attributes.
+ * @param string $url The original URL that was matched by the regex.
+ * @param array $rawattr The original unmodified attributes.
+ * @return string The embed HTML.
+ */
+function wp_embed_handler_youtube( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
+	// If the user supplied a fixed width AND height, use it
+	if ( !empty($rawattr['width']) && !empty($rawattr['height']) ) {
+		$width  = (int) $rawattr['width'];
+		$height = (int) $rawattr['height'];
+	} else {
+		list( $width, $height ) = wp_expand_dimensions( 425, 344, $attr['width'], $attr['height'] );
+	}
+
+	return apply_filters( 'embed_youtube', "<object width='$width' height='$height'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/{$matches[3]}&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1'></param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'></param><param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/{$matches[3]}&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' width='$width' height='$height'></embed></object>", $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );
+}
+wp_embed_register_handler( 'youtube', '#http://(www.youtube|youtube|[A-Za-z]{2}.youtube)\.com/(watch\?v=|w/\?v=|\?v=)([\w-]+)(.*?)#i', 'wp_embed_handler_youtube' );
+
+
+/**
+ * The Google Video embed handler callback. Google Video does not support oEmbed.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
+ * @see WP_Embed::shortcode()
+ *
+ * @param array $matches The regex matches from the provided regex when calling {@link wp_embed_register_handler()}.
+ * @param array $attr Embed attributes.
+ * @param string $url The original URL that was matched by the regex.
+ * @param array $rawattr The original unmodified attributes.
+ * @return string The embed HTML.
+ */
+function wp_embed_handler_googlevideo( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
+	// If the user supplied a fixed width AND height, use it
+	if ( !empty($rawattr['width']) && !empty($rawattr['height']) ) {
+		$width  = (int) $rawattr['width'];
+		$height = (int) $rawattr['height'];
+	} else {
+		list( $width, $height ) = wp_expand_dimensions( 425, 344, $attr['width'], $attr['height'] );
+	}
+
+	return apply_filters( 'embed_googlevideo', "<embed type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid={$matches[2]}&hl=en&fs=true' style='width:{$width}px;height:{$height}px' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always'></embed>", $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );
+}
+wp_embed_register_handler( 'googlevideo', '#http://video\.google\.([A-Za-z.]{2,5})/videoplay\?docid=([\d-]+)(.*?)#i', 'wp_embed_handler_googlevideo' );
+
+/**
+ * The PollDaddy.com embed handler callback. PollDaddy does not support oEmbed, at least not yet.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
+ * @see WP_Embed::shortcode()
+ *
+ * @param array $matches The regex matches from the provided regex when calling {@link wp_embed_register_handler()}.
+ * @param array $attr Embed attributes.
+ * @param string $url The original URL that was matched by the regex.
+ * @param array $rawattr The original unmodified attributes.
+ * @return string The embed HTML.
+ */
+function wp_embed_handler_polldaddy( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
+	return apply_filters( 'embed_polldaddy', '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s3.polldaddy.com/p/' . esc_attr($matches[1]) . '"></script>', $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );
+}
+wp_embed_register_handler( 'polldaddy', '#http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/(\d+)(.*?)#i', 'wp_embed_handler_polldaddy' );
+
+/**
+ * The DailyMotion.com embed handler callback. DailyMotion does not support oEmbed.
+ *
+ * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
+ * @see WP_Embed::shortcode()
+ *
+ * @param array $matches The regex matches from the provided regex when calling {@link wp_embed_register_handler()}.
+ * @param array $attr Embed attributes.
+ * @param string $url The original URL that was matched by the regex.
+ * @param array $rawattr The original unmodified attributes.
+ * @return string The embed HTML.
+ */
+function wp_embed_handler_dailymotion( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
+	// If the user supplied a fixed width AND height, use it
+	if ( !empty($rawattr['width']) && !empty($rawattr['height']) ) {
+		$width  = (int) $rawattr['width'];
+		$height = (int) $rawattr['height'];
+	} else {
+		list( $width, $height ) = wp_expand_dimensions( 480, 291, $attr['width'], $attr['height'] );
+	}
+
+	return apply_filters( 'embed_dailymotion', "<object width='$width' height='$height' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'><param name='movie' value='http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/{$matches[3]}&amp;related=0'></param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'></param><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'></param><embed src='http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/{$matches[3]}&amp;related=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='$width' height='$height' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always'></embed></object>", $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );;
+}
+wp_embed_register_handler( 'dailymotion', '#http://(www.dailymotion|dailymotion)\.com/(.+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)\_(.*?)#i', 'wp_embed_handler_dailymotion' );
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