Code push happening tomorrow!

[karzilla]

We are planning to do a code push within the next 24 hours, around 7:30pm PDT / 10:30pm EDT. (timezones)

You can see what's new in the code tour that was posted earlier this week, but here are the highlights:

• Google Analytics v4 support
• adding the legacy RTE to the beta Create Entries page
• adding draft autosave to the beta Create Entries page
• more UI improvements for the beta Inbox
• some more aggressive measures for discouraging SEO spam accounts
• miscellaneous modernization updates for various journal styles
• many newly added sites for content embeds and username styling
• new color picker for the journal style customization page
• new CSS wrappers to allow styling of entry cut links

We'll update here once the new code is live!

Comments

[taz_39]

Yay, really hope this will include the ability to actually embed media!!!

[denise]

For security purposes, we have to limit certain categories of HTML tags that are very commonly used in media embedding. (Allowing all uses of those tags would provide a vector by which someone malicious could gain limited access to your account or, in the worst case scenario, to others' accounts.) Our fix for that is to place certain sites and their embedding HTML on the explicit allow list and deny any use of those HTML tags that aren't specifically pre-allowed. If there's a particular site you'd like to embed media from and it doesn't work, open a support request with some sample embed code provided by the site, and we can add it to the allow list for you. (Hang on until after the code push, though, since this push involves adding a bunch more sites to the allow list!)

[taz_39]

Ok, thanks! So far the only media I’ve ever been able to embed here is YouTube, and it still shows up sized all wrong. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and every other video service does not work on DW for me at all. The next time I use video and it doesn’t work I’ll do as you suggest.

[denise]

Hmm, I know for sure that we have FB, Instagram, and Tiktok on the allow list. Are you using the embed code the site itself gives?

Anyway, if you run into something that doesn't work, report it with an example of the embed code you're using and we'll see what we can do!

[taz_39]

Yep, I use the provided embed codes. The videos either don’t appear or they show as a link instead of a video. I’ll report it next time I post, or will make a post with one of each video type. This has been the case ever since I started blogging here, videos have never worked except sometimes YouTube videos. Thanks for the help!