WordPress plugin for embedding a SlideShare presentation

by jai on February 25, 2011

in API/Mashups,External SlideShare Apps

We have recently prepared a WordPress plugin which will make it easier to embed a presentation on your WordPress blogs.

After you install and activate this plugin, you won’t have to copy and and paste the embed code. The only thing required will be putting the link to the presentation in your post. This will automatically fetch the slideshow player from SlideShare and show it on your blog.

The plugin uses oEmbed protocol to fetch the embed content from SlideShare.

The plugin is hosted on WordPress Plugin Repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshare-oembed-for-wordpress/

How to install the plugin :

Using WordPress Backend

  1. Search for ‘SlideShare Embeds’
  2. Install the plugin and activate it.

Manually

  1. Download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshare-oembed-for-wordpress/
  2. Extract the zipped file
  3. Upload oembed-slideshare.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  5. It will enable you to post a SlideShare slideshow link to your blog and automatically replace it with the slideshow.

SlideShare oEmbed documentation : www.slideshare.net/developers/oembed

-Jai Pandya, Software Engineer, SlideShare

Tagged as: Blog, Embed, oEmbed, Plugin, WordPress

{ 14 comments }

Anita March 16, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Does the plugin work on Wordpress.com blogs?

Naren March 19, 2011 at 4:02 am

Plugin is not working

Brian Frolo March 19, 2011 at 7:19 pm

@Anita: want plugins to work? Get yourself a self hosted wordpress site.

Alex March 20, 2011 at 4:43 pm

it says it has not been tested with WP 3.1. Can anyone who has installed it on 3.1 comment?

Michael Hayes March 20, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Looking forward to trying out this plug-in. We have a B2B business model and this plug-in will give us an opportunity to communicate to our potential clients easier…Thanks…

Bas March 21, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Works perfectly on wp3.1!

Daria March 21, 2011 at 8:56 pm

The plugin works, that’s not an issue – but I don’t see any info on how to customize it, especially the size.

jai March 22, 2011 at 8:15 am

Use the following format in source view of a WordPress post:

[embed width="max-width"] link to the presentation [/embed]

replace max-width with the maximum width needed. Using the shortcode format described above, the URL won’t need to be on its own line.

nelson rodriguez March 23, 2011 at 12:39 pm

I´ll try again later

Cierra March 25, 2011 at 1:43 pm

For manual installation, which menu is the /wp-content/plugins/ directory/ in?

David Francis March 29, 2011 at 8:34 pm

Just upgraded to 3.1 to get the Slideshare plug-in to work. Tried it and got this message: Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Anyone shed any light?

bobby March 30, 2011 at 6:38 am

This useful plugin can be a great help to us to show off our presentations on our websites and blogs to followers and blog traffic. Thanks for developing this WordPress plugin. Keep up the good work . ☺

Jeffry Pilcher | The Financial Brand April 7, 2011 at 9:59 pm

It works in 3.1.

There should be Slideshare “Settings” in the WP Dashboard that allow users to specify the standard width of Slideshare embeds. Having to remember ‘[embed width="max-width"] link to the presentation [/embed]‘ isn’t very helpful.

Personally, I would prefer to use this syntax to embed:
[slideshare]presentation#[/slideshare]

Jeffry Pilcher | The Financial Brand April 7, 2011 at 10:06 pm

How do you strip the hotlinked title of the presentation out. It is automatically showing up above the presentation.

Also, the [embed width] thing doesn’t work.

I’m deactivating Slideshare’s plugin. I’m going back to what works, a combination of the manual WP embed and this plugin:
http://yoast.com/wordpress/slideshare/

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