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Embed Media in Content

Open Social
Open Social Open Social • 14 November 2017

It is possible to embed media from a variety of social channels into your content. Open Social Supports the most common ones: Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Youtube, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Spotify, TED, Twitter, Vimeo and a few more.

You can embed media into:

  • Description fields (in groups, topics, events, profile etc)
  • Post
  • Comments

For embedding media in posts, you simply need to paste the link of the media in the post field and click the 'post' button. 
 

Here’s a tweet embedded in a post.
a tweet embedded in a post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


For embedding media in comments, you simply need to paste the link of the media in the comment field and click the 'comment' button. 

Here's a facebook post in a comment
a facebook post in a comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For embedding media in description fields, such as event descriptions, group descriptions, and self-introductions, you can click on the embed media icon in the editor, paste the link of the media in the field, then click embed. 

 

Click on the embed icon in the editor
Click on the embed icon in the editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a YouTube video embedded in a description field.
a YouTube video embedded in a description field.