Content Mask vs Dropndot Video Library

Read More & View Demos Here Embed Any Content†‡ Into Your WordPress Website Content Mask allows you to embed any external content onto your own WordPress Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types. The end result is fairly similar to setting up a Domain Mask, but the content is embedded into the front end of your website and is fully contained inside your WordPress permalink ecosystem. Example: If you built a landing page on landing-page-builder.com/your-landing-page/, you can simply create a new Page on your website at your-site.com/landing-page/ and paste in the URL of your landing page. The Content Mask plugin will then download and cache of copy of your landing page directly on your website, so any visitors that come to your-site.com/landing-page/ will see the landing page you built. This allows you to keep all of your links integrated into your WordPress Website. † Do not use Content Mask to embed any content that you do not own or do not otherwise have license to share, embed, frame, or distribute. Simple 2-Step UI With a simple 2-Step UI, you can embed any external content into your website without any complicated URL Forwarding, DNS Records, or .htaccess rules to mess with. Just enable the Content Mask on any Page, Post, or Custom Post type by clicking on the check mark. Then put in the URL that contains the content you want to embed. It’s that simple! Powerful Embedding and Redirect Options Using the Download method (default) will fetch the content from the Content Mask URL, cache it on your website, and replace the current page request with that content. By default, this cache lasts 4 hours – but it can be changed anywhere from “Never Cache” all the way up to “Cache for 4 Weeks”. Caching prevents the need for additional requests that slow down your site. Using the Iframe method will replace the current page request with a full width/height, frameless iframe containing the host URL. This method is ideal if the URL you want to embed won’t serve scripts, styles, or images to other URLs or IP Addresses. If you use the Download Method, and links or images look broken, you can try the Iframe method instead. Using the Redirect (301) method will simply redirect the visitor to the host URL. Simple Integrated Vistor Tracking In the Content Mask admin panel, you can enable tracking for Content Masked pages. This will allow you to see how many visitors are viewing these links. This is ideal for when you need to track acquisition, such as on a Landing Page. [Views] shows how many times that Content Mask page has been viewed by anybody (even logged in users) [Non-User] shows how many times it’s been viewed by visitors that are not logged in to the website. [Unique] shows how many times it’s been viewed by unique IP addresses. Note: IP addresses are one-way hashed and are not identifiable in any way. Creating a Content Masked Page Using the Content Mask Admin Panel Notes: Do NOT use Content Mask on any content you aren’t explicitly authorized to share or use. Please confirm you’re allowed to utilize and embed the content before embedding any particular URL. Content embedded using the Download method is cached using the WordPress Transients API for 4 hours by default. If the content on the external URL is updated and you would like a fresh copy, you may just click the “Update” button on the Page, Post, or Custom Post Type to refresh the transient, or click the “Refresh” link in the Content Mask Admin panel. You may also change the cache expiration timer per page anywhere from “Never” to “4 weeks”. You may use the Transients Manager plugin to manage transients stored with the Download method. All Content Mask related transients contain the prefix “content_mask-” plus a stripped version of the Content Mask URL, such as “content_mask-httpxhynkcom”. ‡ Your site may be prevented from processing page requests for any reason; Reasons include, but are not limited to: masking unauthorized content, at the request of the masked URL site owner, masking hateful content, masking illegal content, circumventing IP bans, etc. A dual one-way encrypted hash of your masking URL may be used to check for infraction. No identifying information will be used for this check, and no information is saved other than as a transient to prevent unnecessary duplicate checks per site Read More About Content Mask

Dropndot Video Library is a powerful WordPress plugin that transforms your website into a comprehensive video management platform. Create, organize, and display videos from popular platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, TikTok, and more through an intuitive custom post type interface. Key Features Multi-Platform Support: Embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, TikTok, and other video platforms Custom Post Type: Dedicated “Videos” post type with full WordPress integration Taxonomies: Organize videos with categories and tags REST API Support: Full REST API integration for headless implementations WPGraphQL Support: GraphQL API support for modern applications Custom Templates: Includes archive, single, and taxonomy templates Admin Interface: User-friendly video management interface Settings Page: Customize URL slugs for videos and archives Thumbnail Support: Featured image support for video thumbnails SEO Friendly: Proper meta descriptions and structured data support Supported Video Platforms YouTube Vimeo Dailymotion Facebook TikTok And many more through embed URLs External services This plugin connects to third-party video platform APIs to retrieve oEmbed/metadata so it can normalize URLs, generate embed links, and build thumbnails for videos saved in the Video post type. Vimeo API Used to fetch metadata and thumbnails for Vimeo URLs. Data sent: the video ID parsed from the URL. When sent: when a Vimeo URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms Privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Facebook Graph oEmbed API Used to fetch oEmbed information for Facebook video URLs. Data sent: the original Facebook video URL and a site-configured access token (if provided via filter). When sent: when a Facebook video URL is saved or processed. If the oEmbed response does not provide a thumbnail URL, the plugin also fetches the original Facebook video page HTML and extracts the og:image meta tag to determine a thumbnail. Terms: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ TikTok oEmbed API Used to fetch oEmbed information for TikTok video URLs. Data sent: the original TikTok video URL (when available/stored in post meta for normalization). When sent: when a TikTok URL is saved or processed. Fallbacks: if needed, the plugin fetches HTML from https://www.tiktok.com/embed/{video_id} and also tries https://www.tiktok.com/v/{video_id} to parse og:image and JSON-LD for a thumbnail. Terms: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy Wistia API Used to fetch metadata for Wistia media URLs. Data sent: the Wistia media ID parsed from the URL. When sent: when a Wistia URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://wistia.com/terms Privacy policy: https://wistia.com/privacy Twitch Helix API Used to resolve Twitch stream/channel details for embed generation. Data sent: Twitch channel username (passed as user_login) to resolve live-stream thumbnails; the request includes a Client-ID header obtained via the filter DROPNDOT_VIDEO_LIBRARY_twitch_client_id. When sent: when a Twitch URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/terms-of-service/ Privacy policy: https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/privacy-notice/ Veed oEmbed API Used to fetch oEmbed information for VEED links. Data sent: the original VEED video URL. When sent: when a VEED URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://www.veed.io/terms Privacy policy: https://www.veed.io/privacy Loom oEmbed API Used to fetch oEmbed information for Loom links. Data sent: the original Loom video URL. When sent: when a Loom URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://www.loom.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.loom.com/privacy-policy Rumble Video Page Fetch Used to fetch the Rumble video page HTML to extract thumbnail metadata (Open Graph og:image). Data sent: the Rumble video page URL built from the video ID parsed from the embed URL. When sent: when generating fallback thumbnails for Rumble embed URLs (and when processing URLs where no provider API response is available). Terms: https://rumble.com/s/terms Privacy policy: https://rumble.com/s/privacy Streamable API Used to fetch metadata for Streamable URLs. Data sent: the Streamable video ID parsed from the URL. When sent: when a Streamable URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://streamable.com/terms Privacy policy: https://streamable.com/privacy Instagram oEmbed API Used to fetch oEmbed information for Instagram video URLs. Data sent: the original Instagram video URL. When sent: when an Instagram URL is saved or processed. Terms: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870 Privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy Direct URL fetch for metadata parsing In some providers, the plugin requests the original video page URL to extract metadata when no provider API response is available. Data sent: a standard HTTP request to the video URL provided by the site editor. When sent: when processing supported non-API/fallback URL patterns. Support For support, bug reports, or feature requests, please visit: https://dropndot.com/support/ Contributing We welcome contributions! Please see our GitHub repository for contribution guidelines. License Dropndot Video Library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.