Embed an iframe on a Discourse hosted site

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I have a client who would like to be able to embed an iframe on a Discourse hosted site. As far as I can tell, it isn’t currently possible to whitelist an iframe through a site customization - the post is cooked on the server, so adding a new regexp to _validIframes in a customization has no effect.

The best I’ve been able to come up with is to embed the iframe through Codepen. That works as a proof of concept, but the UI isn’t right for what we’re trying to do.

The goal is to be able to embed an iframe that’s generated on a WordPress site to create a map of the forum’s users. Something similar to what is outlined here: Visual map of users

Is this something that there is any demand for? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to approach it?

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The correct approach is the app to provide an oembed, so it will onebox and will be able to use an iframe inside the onebox.

Like a Google Maps uses an iframe:

https://www.google.com.br/maps/place/Vila+Industrial,+São+Paulo+-+State+of+São+Paulo/@-23.6070449,-46.5407708,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x94ce5d401da3279f:0x26ccbdf13f9aa007!8m2!3d-23.6070284!4d-46.532541

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That looks very promising. The problem is that I’m creating the iframe on a WordPress site. It looks like it could be setup as an oembed provider, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that.

For now, I’m just going to add the iframe to a post with javascript. That works well for what I need to do.

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Actually, this Google Maps embed is broken for me. I should I be able to zoom and click the links, right? I cannot get any interaction out of the embed, it behaves like an image.

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