[Baichi]

I know youtube links can be embedded easily, just wondering if there’s anyway, or hope for a way, to as easily embed links from youku, It’s the Chinese youtube and it’s incredibly popular in China. I realize most users aren’t from China so I understand if it’s impossible, just wondering as most of my students are from China and it would make my life easy haha Thanks for your time!

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi 🙂

bbPress follows WordPress list here https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

Oh…. Look… You should be able to 🙂

Are you running WordPress with define('WPLANG', 'zh_CH'); in your wp-config.php?

[Stephen Edgar]

The WordPress language pack for zh_CH includes the following code:
https://i18n.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zh_CN/tags/3.8.1/dist/wp-content/languages/zh_CN.php#L84

83	/**
84	 * Youku wp_embed handler
85	 *
86	 * Embed code last updated:
87	 *  Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:36:11 -0400
88	 *
89	 * Feel free to submit or correct URL formats here:
90	 *  https://cn.wordpress.org/contact/
91	 *
92	 * @since 3.4.0
93	 */
94	function wp_embed_handler_youku( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
95	        $embed = sprintf(
96	                '<embed src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/%1$s/v.swf" allowFullScreen="true" quality="high" width="480" height="400" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>',
97	                esc_attr( $matches['video_id'] ) );
98	
99	        return apply_filters( 'embed_youku', $embed, $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );
100	}
101	wp_embed_register_handler( 'youku',
102	        '#https?://v\.youku\.com/v_show/id_(?<video_id>[a-z0-9_=\-]+)#i',
103	        'wp_embed_handler_youku' );

So as you should be able to have this in WordPress posts and pages etc that ‘should’ flow on down to bbPress to allow you to use youku 🙂