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In this day and age, multimedia content is everything on the internet. One of the most engaging forms of multimedia that website owners use frequently is video. If you’re managing a WordPress site, you’re in luck because WordPress has made it incredibly easy to embed videos from various platforms – including Facebook. In this article, we’ll show you how to embed a Facebook video in WordPress, and take you through the process step-by-step.
function wpturbo_embed_facebook_video( $content ) {
global $post;
if ( has_shortcode( $post->post_content, 'facebook_video' ) ) {
// Replace [facebook_video] with Facebook video embed code
$content = str_replace( '[facebook_video]', '<div class="fb-video"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=VIDEO_ID"></iframe></div>', $content );
}
return $content;
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpturbo_embed_facebook_video' );
```
This code replaces the `[facebook_video]` shortcode in the post content with the Facebook video embed code. To use it, simply replace `VIDEO_ID` with the actual ID of your Facebook video.
The code snippet presented above shows how to embed a Facebook video in WordPress using a shortcode. With this code, you can easily replace a shortcode, [facebook_video], with the Facebook video embed code, and display your video on your WordPress website.
At first, we declare the function wpturbo_embed_facebook_video(). This function uses a conditional statement to check if the post content has the [facebook_video] shortcode. If yes, it replaces it with the Facebook video embed code.
if ( has_shortcode( $post->post_content, 'facebook_video' ) ) {
// Replace [facebook_video] with Facebook video embed code
$content = str_replace( '[facebook_video]', '<div class="fb-video"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=VIDEO_ID"></iframe></div>', $content );
}After that, we replace a shortcode with an iframe HTML element. The iframe element defines the Facebook video URL as a source. The fb-video class is responsible for styling the container in which the video will be displayed.
Let’s see how the above code works. Suppose we have a post containing the [facebook_video] shortcode, which looks like this:
Here is a video from Facebook: [facebook_video]Upon adding the code snippet to our WordPress website, the shortcode will be replaced with the Facebook video embed code. The above code will now look like this:
Here is a video from Facebook:
<div class="fb-video"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=VIDEO_ID"></iframe></div>Replace VIDEO_ID with the actual ID of your Facebook video before using the code above.
Finally, the add_filter() hook is used to pass the post content through the wpturbo_embed_facebook_video() function. This ensures that whenever the post content is rendered, the shortcode is replaced with the Facebook video embed code.