WordPress.com oEmbed

WordPress.com provides hosting and tools for building websites. Through oEmbed, developers can embed photos, audio tracks, and 4K videos from WordPress.com and its subdomains, enabling a straightforward way to display multimedia content hosted on the platform. Consumers such as WordPress, Slack, and other CMS or chat platforms can call its oEmbed endpoint to turn WordPress.com URLs into rich embeds — without writing custom integration code. Below are the endpoint details, supported URL patterns, and response formats for WordPress.com.

Endpoint

URL patterns

json

Format

Yes

Discovery

Endpoint

http://public-api.wordpress.com/oembed/

Supported URL patterns

https://wordpress.com/* http://wordpress.com/* https://*.wordpress.com/* http://*.wordpress.com/* https://*.*.wordpress.com/* http://*.*.wordpress.com/* https://wp.me/* http://wp.me/*

Formats: json Link-tag discovery enabled

Test a WordPress.com URL

See the live oEmbed response and a rendered preview.

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