Before Posting
Yes these ^^
There is a plugin to disable across your whole site
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-embeds/
We might add an option to the bbPress plugin to turn this off, or include this WordPress post oEMBED to the already present enable auto embed option.
In your post you said random images show up and some screen flicker? This makes it sound like a really bad bug, but thinking over it, is it just the icon images (share icon, WordPress logo, possibly a comment icon), and the post embed loading?
EDIT: Actually disabling auto-embed in your forums will also stop the WordPress post oEMBED feature.
Hey Robkk
the image that appears is a large (screenshot) of the WP admin backend…
1. how do I disable auto-embed in my forums?
2. and if I do this, will my users still be able to post Youtube, Vimeo etc…
Kind Regards
Max
OK… so the option to uncheck embed is already available in the back end of BBpress at: settings/forum/auto-embed links.
So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).
Another ham-fisted way around this bug it to use the css:
.bbp-reply-header a.bbp-reply-permalink {display:none}
(which by the way bbpress have done on these forums)
The downsides are:
1. no numbering reference on replies if someone want to quote or link to old reply.
2. In front end profile/replies no link on each reply to take user back to relevant thread.
What do you think is best: display or not display?
Are their any other options?
So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).
Did you try it? That plugin is specifically for those new WordPress post embeds.
THe setting I mentioned in the bbPress forum settings removes all embeds (youtube, flickr) including the WordPress post embeds.
You do not have to use CSS to hide the little post id number.
Did you try the disable embeds plugin? It may not do the forums specifically, just site wide.
Thanks for your input.
I think there is currently no fix for this bug if one wishes to have embeds in their forums.
Technically it is not a bug, it is that you just do not want the feature (I am not a fan of it either).
I swear as long as you have enable embeds in the bbPress forum settings and just installed the Disable Embeds plugin, you should not see those specific WordPress post/page embeds that you explained in your earlier post or the ones that are displaying correctly in this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/free-wordpress-theme-that-are-bbpress-ready/#post-176073.