# How to automatically adjust iframe height for embedded wordpress posts

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**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-adjust-iframe-height-for-embedded-wordpress-posts/127686 "2019-09-05T13:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-adjust-iframe-height-for-embedded-wordpress-posts/127686/12 "2024-04-03T05:30:45Z")

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I can’t speak for the original topic author, but I can give answers in my case:

> [@angus](#):
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> 1. What’s the reason why you want an iframe here instead of the normal topic embed functionality?

I hacked together quite a few plugins on WordPress that allows me to have a podcast player with interactive transcripts (the words highlight as the audio plays and one can click to jump to that part of the audio), interactive chapter/show notes, and a searchable/sortable/filterable playlist.

So to just embed them here without an iframe, I wouldn’t be able to access the javascript and all the styling that I’ve put into it.

Oh, and I find it much easier for me to hack together those things on WordPress than on Discourse, I really struggle with doing javascript and plugins here.

> [@angus](#):
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> 1. I’m curious why you would still have a Wordpress site at all if you don’t want users to consume content there?

To host the podcast episodes, I’ll need the WordPress site regardless. But to whether I want users to consume content there, I’m not sure. Since I’ve been using Discourse for comments on WordPress, interactivity has dropped off. I used to have people post on WordPress comments, but Discourse requires them to cross a domain threshold, and then they’re interacting in a separate place. If Discourse made it easier for people to post in an embedded way on a WordPress forum, I’d probably focus on that.

I’m not sure if it’s needed, I just get the feeling that I want to have one main place for people to gather, and before thought it’d be WordPress with embedded Discourse comments/posting but now I’m thinking Discourse with embedded WordPress posts might be easier and more likely to inspire people to interact with each other.

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