Gutenberg embed URL block only works in some cases

[justinahinon]

I'm trying to embed a website on a page with the Gutenberg embed block, but it only works for some URL and not others.

I'm running on WordPress 5.1.1 with the theme Hestia.

Here are some examples:

Embed ​https://www.google.bj/

Embed ​https://www.google.bj/ result in front-end

Embed ​https://wordpress.org

Embed ​https://info.africarxiv.org, the website I'm working on. The website displays in the editor

Embed ​https://info.africarxiv.org, result in front-end

I tried to reproduce these on a local server, and I ran into the sames issues.
Note that, when I embed a Twitter/YouTube post with the specific embeds blocks, it works correctly both in the editor and in front-end.

[swissspidy]

That looks as expected to me.

You cannot just embed any website on the internet. The websites need to support oEmbed. I don't think the Google homepage does support oEmbed, for example :-)

[jeremyfelt]

It looks like the https://info.africarxiv.org/ home page advertises an oEmbed URL of https://info.africarxiv.org/embed/, which redirects back to https://info.africarxiv.org/ and causes the unstyled/confusing embed in the editor.

Other pages such as https://info.africarxiv.org/about/ work fine with the advertised https://info.africarxiv.org/about/embed/.

I tested another site with a static page set for the home page and it also advertises the endpoint incorrectly. I wonder if there could be a bug there? Somewhat related: #35067

(I think this ticket can be closed, though I am wondering about the static home page embed now) :)

Related to the linking of non-oEmbed supporting URLs: ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/12095 added the "Try again" and "Convert to link" options to make the experience a little better when using a URL that does not support oEmbed.

[desrosj]

Closing this ticket out as it seems to be working as expected. @justinahinon if you are still having issues and feel this should remain open, please feel free to reopen with more details!