Update: Facebook and Instagram oEmbed authentication change recommendations

On September 28, we published a list of recommendations for mitigating the deprecation of Facebook’s support for unauthenticated oEmbed requests.

Since that time, the solution we recommended has changed.

Due to this upcoming change, Jetpack will not require activation of the shortcodes embed module to update this compatibility. The update to Facebook and Instagram oEmbed endpoints is now included by default for all Jetpack-enabled sites.

These changes are part of the upcoming Jetpack 9.0 release. If you are using our recently-released Jetpack version selection, you must set your preferred Jetpack version to 9.0 or greater to receive these changes to embeds. For more information on setting your preferred Jetpack version, please see our Lobby post here.

For more technical information regarding this further change to our recommended solution, please refer to the following Jetpack source updates:

Our previous update regarding this change can be found here and has been edited to match this latest change to our recommendation.