The Greek Schools’ Network goes (more) WordPress – Its 1st plugin is here


The Greek Schools’ Network (GSN – http://www.sch.gr) is the educational intranet of the Ministry of Education, which interlinks all Greek schools and provides high quality electronic services.

Among other services (such as blogging platforms), it allows teachers, schools to upload and share videos and slideshows using the http://vod-new.sch.gr and http://mmpres.sch.gr sites.

Now we go a step further.

Its 1st WordPress plugin Sch.gr Commons plugin. adds oEmbed support in WordPress posts, pages and custom post types for videos, presentations etc from the vod-new.sch.gr, mmpres.sch.gr sites of Greek Schools Network. There are no settings.

Simply, add the URL in your content editor. Just paste the given “Απευθείας σύνδεσμος” link from the “Κοινοποίηση” section of a video from vod-new.sch.gr into the content area and it will by transformed to oEmbed into your post, page or custom post type.

You can find the Sch.gr Commons into the WordPress.org repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/schgr-commons/

Copy the url from a vod-new.sch.gr video
Paste a simple url in post
The resulted embed video from vod-new.sch.gr into the post.

Embed SlideSnack presentation into your wordpress post with LS Snacktools plugin


SlideSnack.com is a great presentation sharing tool that enables you to easily upload and share presentations online.
But there was a small “gap” if you wanted to embed your presentation into a WordPress site. You had to use iframe.  NOT any more.

With the LS Snacktools plugin you can just copy-paste the given “Link to this post” from Slidesnack.com into the content area and it will by transformed to oEmbed into your post, page or custom post type.

You can find the LS Snacktools plugin in the WordPress.org repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ls-snacktools/