id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 23715,Plugins/Themes that rely on get_option('embed_autourls') may fail in 3.5.x,standardbanter,,"After upgrading to WordPress 3.5. or greater from 3.4.x and below, the option ""embed_autourls"" will still exist in the database. Plugins or Themes that make assumptions based on this may fail as regardless of the answer, the actual behavior is that embed_autourls is always on per http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed when the post is viewed. As of 3.5, Auto-embeds are automatically enabled and there is no setting to turn them off in the WordPress admin pages. Prior to 3.5, there was an ""Auto-embeds"" checkbox in Administration > Settings > Media SubPanel. Backwards compatibility could be preserved if this option would always return true from 3.5.x onward. Perhaps removing this option (from all sites if multisite) as an upgrade step could be another solution (though terrifying) to at least have a consistent (though not helpful) return value. These are just ideas that come to mind. I did a quick scan through the options code I didn't see a history of forcing an option to a specific value for historical purposes. I assume this ticket will likely result in a ""won't fix"" but I wanted to make a record of it in the event others search the bug database. Thank you for your time!",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.5.2,Embeds,3.5,normal,fixed,has-patch commit fixed-major,,