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Title: How to Disable Auto-Embeds in WordPress Posts

Snippet:

function disable_embeds_init() {

    // Remove the REST API endpoint.
    remove_action( 'rest_api_init', 'wp_oembed_register_route' );

    // Turn off oEmbed auto discovery.
    // Don't filter oEmbed results.
    remove_filter( 'oembed_dataparse', 'wp_filter_oembed_result', 10 );

    // Remove oEmbed discovery links.
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links' );

    // Remove oEmbed-specific JavaScript from the front-end and back-end.
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_host_js' );
    add_filter( 'tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_embeds_tiny_mce_plugin' );

    // Remove the embed query string from URLs.
    add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', 'disable_embeds_rewrites' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'disable_embeds_init', 9999 );

Content:

The code snippet above is used to disable auto-embeds in WordPress posts. Embeds allow WordPress users to easily share content from external websites by simply pasting a URL on a separate line in their post editor. While this may be a convenient feature, it can also slow down your website’s loading times and negatively affect the overall user experience for your visitors.

The code above disables auto-embeds by hooking into the init action and removing various actions and filters associated with the WordPress oEmbed feature. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of what the code is doing:

1. The remove_action() function is used to remove the REST API endpoint that handles oEmbed registration. By removing this endpoint, oEmbed data requests will be ignored.

2. The second remove_filter() function removes the wp_filter_oembed_result filter which modifies the returned oEmbed content. By removing this filter, we can ensure that the output content for oEmbed is not filtered.

3. The remove_action() function is being used a second time. This time it removes the wp_oembed_add_discovery_links action. This action adds the necessary HTML link elements pointing to the oEmbed discovery page. By removing these links, WordPress is no longer exposing the oEmbed tools to external sites.

4. The fourth remove_action() function disables the oEmbed-specific JavaScript, making it not run on the front-end or back-end of your WordPress site. This further speeds up your site by reducing the amount of JavaScript files being loaded up.

5. In the final line of code, the add_filter() function is used to add the disable_embeds_rewrites function to the rewrite_rules_array filter hook. By doing this, we are stripping the oEmbed URL prefix from the URL rewrite rules and simplifying the URLs of your posts.

By adding this code to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file, you can disable auto-embeds, increasing your site’s overall speed and performance.