Best oembed plugins for WordPress
The most popular oembed plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Embed PDF Viewer leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Disable Embeds (10K+) and Embed Privacy (10K+). All 116 plugins tagged “oembed” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 oembed plugins
- 1.Embed PDF Viewer
The most installed oembed plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 19 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.Disable Embeds
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 20 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.Embed Privacy
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 26 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
oEmbed Plus3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 5.Embedly
2K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 20 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.Wistia WordPress Plugin
2K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 8 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 7.Sch.gr Commons
1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
Hide Related Video Youtube1K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 9 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 9.Magyar Video Embed
1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 10.Github Embed
1K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 14 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 116 plugins tagged “oembed”
Embed PDF Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,196by Andy Fragen2 months ago
Embed a PDF from the Media Library or elsewhere via oEmbed or as a block into an iframe tag.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(19)
- Downloads
- 126/day
Disable Embeds
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,742by Pascal Birchler2 months ago
Don’t like the enhanced embeds in WordPress 4.4? Easily disable the feature using this plugin.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(20)
- Downloads
- 363/day
Embed Privacy
Up in the last 7 days:10#2,065by epiphyt2 months ago
Embed Privacy prevents the loading of embedded external content and allows your site visitors to opt-in.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(26)
- Downloads
- 93/day

oEmbed Plus
Down in the last 7 days:14#3,619by Ayesh Karunaratne5 years ago
Adds support for embedding Facebook and Instagram posts in Block Editor (Gutenberg) and Classic Editor.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 64/day
Embedly
Up in the last 7 days:1#4,393by Embedly8 months ago
The Embedly Plugin extends WordPress's auto-embed feature to give your blog more media types and style options.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.5(20)
- Downloads
- 21/day
Wistia WordPress Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,721by wistia3 years ago
Enables all Wistia embed types to be used in your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.1(8)
- Downloads
- 25/day
Sch.gr Commons
Up in the last 7 days:51#5,702by lenasterg1 year ago
Just copy/paste a URL of video from https://video.sch.gr, or a school location map from https://maps.sch.gr into your WordPress posts and see them emb …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide Related Video Youtube
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,051by TranHoangQuoc7 years ago
Hide related video youtube is a plugin remove related video other chanel when you use YouTube oEmbed.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Magyar Video Embed
Down in the last 7 days:16#6,606by DjZoNe11 years ago
This plugin helps different hungarian online video service provider videos to be embeded just like youtube links. So, this is not intresting to you un …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Github Embed
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,940by Lee Willis2 months ago
Plugin that allows you to embed details from GitHub just by pasting in the URL as you would any other embed source. Currently supports:
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.9(14)
- Downloads
- 21/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:14#7,068by edwardtownend12 years ago
Adds an oEmbed field type to Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 9/day

Datawrapper oEmbed
Up in the last 7 days:20#7,418by Datawrapper2 years ago
Registers Datawrapper as oEmbed provider so charts, maps, and tables created with Datawrapper can be embedded in WordPress.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 112/day

Video Blogster Lite
#8,199by johnh103 years ago
Create a video blog in minutes! This plugin searches YouTube for content and automatically creates posts from the results.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Embed Block for TikTok
Up in the last 7 days:8#8,728by Jb Audras2 months ago
Easily embed TikTok videos in both Gutenberg and Classic Editor.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day

Embed Extended
Down in the last 7 days:28#9,902by Rudy Susanto3 years ago
Embed any external content into WordPress posts and pages. It works seamlessly on Gutenberg, Elementor, classic editor, the embed shortcode, as well a …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Better Core Video Embeds
Down in the last 7 days:62#10,829by Highrise Digital1 year ago
A plugin which enhances the core embed block for Youtube, Daily Motion and Vimeo videos by not loading unnecessary scripts until they are needed.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

oEmbed External Video
Down in the last 7 days:70#11,701by Ali Qureshi2 months ago
oEmbed External Video plugin converts any external mp4 url into HTML5 video tag
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

oEmbed Manager
Down in the last 7 days:24#12,060by Pierre Lannoy2 months ago
Manage oEmbed capabilities of your website and take a new step in the GDPR compliance of your embedded content.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Widget Pack
Down in the last 7 days:67#12,394by Slobodan Manić10 years ago
Widget Pack is a WordPress plugin that enables essential, yet powerful features for your website.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Twitter Embed
Up in the last 7 days:9#12,413by Konstantin Kovshenin14 years ago
Easily embed tweets in your posts and pages by posting the tweet URL on a line by itself or by using a shortcode provided by the Twitter interface.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
oEmbed-Soundcloud
#12,555by Brandon Shutter11 years ago
This plugin allows you to copy and paste a Soundcloud URL onto a page and it will display the Soundcloud player.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SlideShare Embeds for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:16#12,789by Obox12 years ago
Enables you to embed a SlideShare presentation just by putting its link in your WordPress post.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Google Docs oEmbed
Down in the last 7 days:13#13,122google-docs-oembed10 years ago
Embed Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations in your posts or pages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gabfire Media Module
Down in the last 7 days:18#13,616by Gabfire11 years ago
Gabfire Media Module extends the functionality of WordPress Featured Image to support Videos and Default Post Images.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Qualtrics Survey Embeds
Down in the last 7 days:136#13,643by michaelryanmcneill11 years ago
Adds a Qualtrics Embed Handler to WordPress allowing for quick survey embeds.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plyr
Up in the last 7 days:425#15,053by Brandon Lavigne10 years ago
Plyr.io HTML5 video player.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
oEmbed in Comments
Down in the last 7 days:21#15,192by Evan Solomon13 years ago
WordPress supports oEmbed, but only in post content. This adds oEmbed support to comments.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day

glomex oEmbed
Up in the last 7 days:129#15,231by Glomex1 month ago
Paste a glomex Exchange video or playlist URL into any editor and WordPress renders the glomex player in its place.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Add External Media
Down in the last 7 days:4#15,274by leemon7 years ago
Add external media to the media library
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
TrimPress
Down in the last 7 days:97#16,189by David Matthew1 year ago
TrimPress optimizes and trims some of the cruft from WordPress for a lighter, more secure theme!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

TEDTalks Embedder
Down in the last 7 days:20#16,367by Samuel Aguilera7 years ago
Helps you to embed TED Talks videos on your self hosted WordPress by simply pasting the URL or using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LS oEmbed support for Scratch Mit
Down in the last 7 days:59#16,716by lenasterg1 year ago
Adds oEmbed support for https://scratch.mit.edu projects in WordPress posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
oEmbed Infogram
Up in the last 7 days:106#17,005by Rafał Całka2 months ago
A simple plugin that adds support for embedding Infogram.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Embed Block for Matterport
Up in the last 7 days:285#17,640by Alexandre Buffet1 month ago
Adds Matterport oEmbed support and provides a new Embed block variation.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Speaker Deck Embed
Down in the last 7 days:32#19,234by Matt Wiebe13 years ago
Easily embed Speaker Deck presentations in your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
OEmbed in Library
Down in the last 7 days:191#19,567by Cyril Batillat13 years ago
Easily add external files in library using OEmbed API
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

oEmbed styling
Up in the last 7 days:222#19,676by honza.skypala10 years ago
This plugins wraps oEmbed generated HTML with divs that allow for styling them with CSS (style sheet of the theme).
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Wistia Embed
Up in the last 7 days:192#20,478by chrisfromthelc11 years ago
The simplest Wistia OEmbed plugin ever. Simply paste the URL and it works!
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

STN Video oEmbed
Down in the last 7 days:1,314#20,648by STN Video2 years ago
This plugin adds oEmbed support for STN Video videos by registering STN Video as a provider.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
oEmbed for Comments
Up in the last 7 days:172#21,320by r-a-y16 years ago
Enable oEmbed support for comments. Requires WP 2.9+.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Aparat Embed
Up in the last 7 days:60#21,380by shazdeh12 years ago
Display Aparat videos and channels in WordPress.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Embed Charts
Down in the last 7 days:287#21,626by jamesdlow2 months ago
Easily embed TradingView charts in Wordpress from just the link.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GenerateWP Embed
Down in the last 7 days:158#22,706by Rami Yushuvaev7 years ago
Embed code snippets from GenerateWP.com into your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CodePen oEmbed
#23,138by Pippin Williamson12 years ago
Add CodePen to the available oEmbed providers
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
oEmbed Widget for Telegram Posts
#23,387by aiiddqd1 year ago
Embed Telegram posts, channels, and groups in WordPress automatically with responsive oEmbed support.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rajce embed
Down in the last 7 days:125#24,252by honza.skypala10 years ago
Embeds photos and photo-albums stored on rajce.net as native WordPress galleries
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ETH Embed Anchor.fm
#24,312by Erick Hitter4 years ago
Allow embedding Anchor.fm podcast episodes in your content.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
oEmbed for BuddyPress
Down in the last 7 days:55#24,340by r-a-y16 years ago
The easiest way to share your favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and more on your BuddyPress network.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Ignite Video Player OEmbed
Down in the last 7 days:515#24,607by ignitevideocloud11 months ago
Automatically converts Ignite Video Player URLs into responsive video embeds. Works with WordPress blocks, classic editor, and page builders.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Adilo Embed
Down in the last 7 days:261#24,921by ogonna4 years ago
Adilo Embed wordpress plugin to support oembed url in wordpress
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day