26 September 2011, 10:44

Can anyone get this site Timetoast to embed a timeline with the Embed.ly plugin? All I get is the URL in the box and no timeline. I can do it by pasting the embed code from Timetoast into a text box and that works fine but the point of Embed.ly, I thought , was that it would embed using the direct link simple URL - but it doesn't seem to work for me and I don't know if I am doing something wrong.

29 September 2011, 4:27

I've tested it. It's not Embed.ly plugin, but Embed.ly service. OK that needs a bit more of explanation. When a user paste URL to Embed.ly, they can get the following: photo, video, rich and link. Rich basically means embed code.

In Timetoast's case the Embed.ly service returns link instead of rich - so the solution would be to ask Timetoast to send embed code to Embed.ly service instead of link.

I hope this is understandable (because it'a a bit technical).

HTH,
Gregor

29 September 2011, 7:26

Yes I think I understand it and that is very helpful, thankyou.