Title: Github Embed
Author: Lee Willis
Published: <strong>February 4, 2013</strong>
Last modified: December 2, 2025

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# Github Embed

 By [Lee Willis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leewillis77/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/github-embed.2.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/github-embed/)

## Description

Plugin that allows you to embed details from GitHub just by pasting in the URL as
you would any other embed source. Currently supports:

 * Repositories
 * User profiles
 * Project milestone summaries
 * Project contributors

Coming soon:

 * Gists…

The plugin provides very basic styling, but adds classes so you can style as you
see fit. If anyone has some ideas for a better default stylesheet – pull requests
welcome!

The main development is all going on on [GitHub](https://github.com/leewillis77/wp-github-oembed).

### Treeware

You’re free to use this package for free, but if it makes it to your production 
environment please [buy the world a tree](https://offset.earth/ademtisoftware?gift-trees).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * GitHub Repository
 * [[
 * GitHub user profile
 * [[
 * Project milestone summaries
 * [[
 * Project contributors

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Paste a Github repo, or user URL into a post, or page

## FAQ

### Can I change the layout?

Yes, you can override templates by copying the relevant template from the templates
folder to a folder in your theme called `wp-github-oembed/`

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9eca24256bc4512c217e449af9047103a28b56b8754487d963420fc54281ba84?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Does seem to work, with this 1 simple trick](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-seem-to-work-with-this-1-simple-trick/)󠁿

 [Ted Thompson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yorokobi/) December 25, 2023

http instead of https. Posting the URL (which should trigger an embed in Gutenberg)
using https seems to be hit or miss, but using http worked for all URLs I tried.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e07b32d9dcbab661ec4586d513dc327bdfc11adc0302b609ef0c9ec173159f21?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Sadly not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sadly-not-working-4/)󠁿

 [sighallgone](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sighallgone/) January 7, 2023 1 reply

Doesn’t seem to work sadly. Trying to add my public repos to a page and they are
not showing up like in the screenshots. I don’t think I am doing anything wrong,
but perhaps a bit of better documentation and screenshots on how to actually add
stuff would resolve the confusion if it is actually working.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4f2d7fd22348539b6c93e8a76a18ddd8ea8c7cee249de55f6261fc0f16703009?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not working at all for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-at-all-for-me-7/)󠁿

 [lordmatt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lordmatt/) July 9, 2022

I’ve tried on two separate multisite installs and I cannot get any GitHub URL to
embed at all.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f1709dbef648f300a544ce000a548f7abf398e4fae14efb0a1c4fec37ca8d003?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Plugin is working perfectly for public repositories!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-not-working-146/)󠁿

 [gk8s](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gk8s/) June 7, 2021 3 replies

Tested with WordPress 5.7.2 Plugin works only for public repositories. It would 
be great to also support private repositories.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/da829073727e2fead25fdd16f2cc5b1105b51217a5892f63234d7f466aca46d8?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[this doesn’t embed anything and is listed as the first embed plugin for github](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-doesnt-embed-anything-and-is-listed-as-the-first-embed-plugin-for-github/)󠁿

 [laresistenciadelbit](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lrdb/) May 9, 2021 3 replies

This doesn’t embed anything and is listed as the first embed plugin for github. 
I even made my own embeding plugin for embed github content (repos,files,readmes…)
years ago, and this plugin of yours is the first of the list even if doesn’t embed
anything, just the name of the repository ? wtf

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6757a4bf5efbf899da771d4c406b3b21031bad9bb1532515c5a1f48f7f71b3ac?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[very nice plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-nice-plugin-724/)󠁿

 [Alessandro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pinoperino/) February 5, 2020 1 reply

Very useful and simple plugin to add a repo in a Wordpress post.

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/github-embed/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Github Embed” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Lee Willis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leewillis77/)

“Github Embed” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/github-embed/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Github Embed” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/github-embed)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/github-embed/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/github-embed/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/github-embed/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/github-embed/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.2.1

 * No changes. Internal re-packaging.

#### 2.2.0

 * Fix issue where data was not pass to overridden templates, making templating 
   possible.

#### 2.1.0

 * Wrap recent commits in a tag, expanded by default. Props ZjzMisaka on GitHub
 * Wrap contributor details in a tag, expanded by default.

#### 2.0.2

 * Fix issue where GitHub serves incorrectly sized images for non-avatar users

#### 2.0.1

 * Suggest Treeware donations

#### 2.0

 * Support for authenticating using personal access tokens

#### 1.9

 * Remove unused code – thanks to https://github.com/pjaudiomv

#### 1.8

 * New: All responses are now templated thanks to https://github.com/Zebouski

#### 1.7

 * Include GitHub logo rather than hotlinking to (no-longer supported) repo for 
   image
 * Add wp_github_oembed_logo_class filter

#### 1.6

 * Internal code cleanups
 * Remove unnecessary debug code

#### 1.5

 * Fixes for newer GitHub milestone URLs

#### 1.4

 * Fix PHP warning that could block contributor embeds.
 * Fix Contributor embeds to use correct API call
 * Pass correct initial value to credentials filters

#### 1.3

 * Expire the oEmbed cache daily

#### 1.2

 * Split API calls into separate class
 * Implement milestone summaries
 * Implement contributor lists

#### 1.1

 * Default CSS and more styling

#### 1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.1**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **1,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/) and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/github-embed)
 * Tags
 * [embed](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/embed/)[Github](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/github/)
   [oembed](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/oembed/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/github-embed/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.9 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Lee Willis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leewillis77/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/github-embed/)

## Donate

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