wp_embed_register_handler() ignores hyperlinks

[paulschreiber]

When you paste a URL into a post, like so:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlFN8euWtE

wp_embed_register_handler() will detect it and convert it to an embed:

    <iframe width="610" height="343" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jYlFN8euWtE?feature=oembed" 
    frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

However, if you paste the link first into a Google doc or Word document, and then copy and past it in to WordPress, you end up with something like this:

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlFN8euWtE">
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlFN8euWtE</a>

which wp_embed_register_handler() skips.

It would be nice if that could be detected as an embed.

[wonderboymusic]

If you paste rich text into a rich text editor, it will slurp the HTML from your pasteboard, I'm not sure there is much we can do here

[paulschreiber]

We should be able to detect one-line paragraphs consisting entirely of a hyperlink and format them accordingly.

[Viper007Bond]

I disagree with making this proposed change. Manually making something a hyperlink is a good way to prevent embedding and it would also be a backward breaking change. People who previously didn't have an embed would suddenly have one without expecting it.

It's not like having it be a hyperlink is bad -- readers are welcome to click through to the content. Authors should have to be slightly more specific if they want it to embed in my opinion.

[dd32]

Manually making something a hyperlink is a good way to prevent embedding and it would also be a backward breaking change.

I think there's a difference here between Pasting a link, and manually creating a link.
Pasting a link should trigger embedding, but simply having a linked url on it's own line at publish shouldn't?

[Viper007Bond]

True, I was thinking strictly about render-time filters not editor enhancements.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #31158

[DrewAPicture]

Replying to wonderboymusic:

If you paste rich text into a rich text editor, it will slurp the HTML from your pasteboard, I'm not sure there is much we can do here

I agree with this. If you paste it into Google Docs or whathaveyou, it gets converted to rich text. Not sure I'd expect it to be converted to an embed upon pasting it into TinyMCE at that point. Suggest wontfix.

[chriscct7]

Closing per comments:8 and comment:5 and a general lack of interest