Add Wistia to oEmbed providers whitelist

[morganestes]

Wistia is a video streaming host for marketing with an oEmbed endpoint and a good API. Their ​official plugin adds oEmbed to any WP install, and their video embed code generator ​recommends using oEmbed for WordPress over other options.

Website: ​http://wistia.com
Wikipedia: ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistia
Twitter: ​https://twitter.com/wistia
API Docs: ​http://wistia.com/doc/oembed

Disclosure: I am a customer of Wistia and have contributed to the plugin and documentation site.

[morganestes]

Add Wistia endpoint to oEmbed whitelist.

[johnbillion]

Moving to 4.0 for consideration.

[MikeHansenMe]

As SSL has been a recent topic for inclusion. Wistia allows for http or https.

[johnbillion]

Unlike the other oEmbed providers that we've added for 4.0, I'm not so convinced about Wistia's establishment or popularity. While its WordPress plugin has a reasonable number of downloads, the other numbers (Twitter followers, general Google search results, etc) aren't so great. Not a lot of people seem to be talking about Wistia.

We can revisit this down the line.

[Standish]

More and more people are using Wistia as a solution for professional video sharing. Please consider adding the site to the oEmbed's list.

Thanks,

[SiamKreative]

Wistia is indeed pretty good. It gives move valuable insights than YouTube. It is of course not as popular as YouTube & Vimeo, but I think it's one of the best alternatives out there.

[rainbowgeek]

Please add Wistia! It's a great platform!

[peterwilsoncc]

Replying to rainbowgeek:

It will help with the decision process if you answer the questions on whitelisting providers ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/contribute/design-decisions/#whitelisting-oembed-providers.

Without an obvious listing of publicly accessible videos, I can't see the benefit of putting it in core over the offical plugin.

[johnbillion]

In addition, if Wistia supports oEmbed discovery and uses an iframe for its oEmbeds, it will be supported via the oEmbed discovery which was enabled along with WordPress embeds in 4.4 and thus negates the requirement to be whitelisted.

Similar discussion on #27658.

[morganestes]

It's neat that there's still interest here, and I think Wistia is a great platform, but with their official plugin, updated API, and support for oEmbed out of the gate, I don't see any reason to add Wistia to the providers list in core anymore.

[rainbowgeek]

I misspoke, sorry, I meant the Wistia support to the readme.txt on the official WordPress plugins directory. Currently limited to YouTube and Vimeo.